Tag: identity

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Peter McCarron, Sr. Manager, Partner Marketing at HashiCorpBy Paul Banks, Sr. Engineer, Consul at HashiCorpThe adoption of service mesh has been accelerated by the emergence of microservices. Organizations leverage orchestration tools, like HashiCorp Nomad or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for deploying services, and then use a service mesh such as HashiCorp Consul or AWS App Mesh to manage the connections between them. These service mesh solutions provide a number of important capabilities, such as traffic management, secure connections with mTLS (mutual TLS authentication), and load balancing for managing services ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Amid the buzz surrounding AI (a Gartner survey in 2018 reports that “11% of marketing technology executives reported AI as their top choice as the technology that would have the most impact on their marketing efforts in the next five years”), business leaders may ask if AI (artificial intelligence) is really mature and valuable today for marketing and sales- and if so, how it can be tangibly implemented.  Table of Contents Is there such a thing as AI marketing? According to McKinsey & Co., AI does currently offer real value for marketing ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. 1. Introduction PostgreSQL is packed with several security features for a database administrator to utilize according to his or her organizational security needs. The word Security is a very broad concept and could refer to completely different procedures and methodology to achieve in different PostgreSQL components. This blog is divided into part 1, 2 and 3 and I will explain the word Security with regards to PostgreSQL version 12.1 and how it is practiced in different areas within the system. In Part 1 of the blog, I will be discussing the basic security features that exist in ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jerry Vasquez; Why Prevent and Thoroughly Remove Malware From Your Site? For small-to-mid-size businesses (SMBs) and enterprise organizations, finding, removing, and preventing malware is increasingly critical for risk management and digital trust. Security risks and concerns are rising globally for digital technology. The Experian 2018 Global Fraud and Identity Report, with input from over 5,500 consumers and 500 businesses worldwide, reveals what consumers think of security protocols and gauges how confident businesses can accurately identify their customers. Key findings from this report include: 91% of consumers own smartphones and mobile devices, while 83% own laptops. 90% ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust’s Breast Care Unit approached Redmoor Health to discuss innovative ways to improve patient engagement. Turning to social media, the Health Innovation Campus at Lancaster University, Redmoor Health, and the National Health Service (NHS), began using Facebook to reach the at-risk demographic (women 49+ years old). Through this collaboration, they saw the number of patients attending vital breast screening appointments increase by 13% – among the best in the country. It soon became clear that people using social media expected round-the-clock responses, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. On 20th of January 2020, Amit Kapila committed patch: Allow vacuum command to process indexes in parallel.   This feature allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs in order to process indexes. This enables us to perform index vacuuming and index cleanup with background workers. This adds a PARALLEL option to VACUUM command where the user can specify the number of workers that can be used to perform the command which is limited by the number of indexes on a table. Specifying zero as a number of workers will disable parallelism. This option can't be used with ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Michael Wasielewski. Customers with stringent regulatory or risk-averse considerations may look to Zero Trust architectures to refactor legacy applications or deploy new ones. This blog will help you evaluate your application architecture against Zero Trust principles and use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable architectures.What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust security is a model where application components or microservices are considered discrete from each other and no component or microservice trusts any other. This manifests as a security posture designed to consider input from any source as potentially malicious ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. Ever wondered how great magicians can trick us into believing things that aren’t quite true? From David Copperfield’s flying illusion to one of Penn & Teller’s card tricks, they all have one thing in common: misdirection or the art of deception. Fraudsters, like magicians, are crafty individuals who use a series of techniques to appear as legitimate persons or businesses when in fact they are not. Once they gain access to the coveted goods or services, they bust-out and fall off the radar. “Now you see me. Now you don’t.”   In a fraud context, these ‘disappearing ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on OSM. [This article was first published on R on OSM, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In our last post on the SKEW index we looked at how good the index was in pricing two standard deviation (2SD) down moves. The answer: not very. But, we conjectured that this poor performance may be due to the fact that it is more accurate at pricing larger moves, ... Read More