Tag: identity

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Autonomous payments is the future state of payments – and banks, merchants and payment vendors need to prepare now. Venture funding in this arena already exceeds $28 billion. Coupled with intensifying economic and political forces, consumers globally will see this new, but nonlinear evolution of payments emerge, where payments will melt into the wider commerce experience and create new incremental value for consumers. The key tenets of autonomous payments include: Authentication becomes the payment. Cards and their associated PIN and signature authentication methods are becoming quaint relics of the past. Invisible transactions. The ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. My overall perspective here is that the PostgreSQL community needs a code of conduct, and one which allows the committee to act in some cases for off-infrastructure activity, but that the current code of conduct has some problems which could have been fixed if efforts had been better taken ensure that feedback was gathered when it was actionable. This piece discusses what I feel was done poorly but also what was done well and why, despite a few significant missteps, I think PostgreSQL as a project is headed in the right direction in this area. But a ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: EverSQL; Knowing the bits and bytes of an SQL query’s order of operations can be very valuable, as it can ease the process of writing new queries, while also being very beneficial when trying to optimize an SQL query. If you’re looking for the short version, this is the logical order of operations, also known as the order of execution, for an SQL query: FROM, including JOINs WHERE GROUP BY HAVING WINDOW functions SELECT DISTINCT UNION ORDER BY LIMIT and OFFSET But the reality isn’t that easy nor straight forward. As we said, the SQL standard ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Gary Stevens; The deep web and dark web are terms that have enjoyed plenty of headlines in recent years. You could conclude — wrongly, it turns out — that nothing exists in that seedy cyber alley except for deals that involve contract killing, illegal drugs, human trafficking, weapons, pornography and other not-so-nice products and services. The Silk Road, a website synonymous with shady dealings, was shut down twice by the FBI and its founder, the Dread Pirate Roberts, also known as Ross Ulbricht, imprisoned for life. The deep web and dark web aren’t the same thing, though ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS services are used throughout the United States by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies. Customers can create customized cloud-based environments for CJI workloads with training and helpful resources provided by AWS to meet CJIS requirements. Backed by the secure and tested AWS network, customers can feel comfortable putting sensitive workloads in AWS.Many customers that manage sensitive data – including law enforcement agencies, child welfare agencies, motor vehicle departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations – are comfortable deploying workloads on AWS GovCloud (US) as the region is designed to meet ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Welcome to Azure DevOps The big news last week was the introduction of Azure DevOps, which represents the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Azure DevOps is a set of five new services that can be used together as a unified product, independently as stand-alone services or in any combination: Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts. Azure Pipelines is a fully-managed CI/CD service that enables developers to continuously build, test, and deploy any type of app, to any platform or cloud, which is available with free, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Security comes first when choosing an antivirus. While usability, price and the number of devices supported are important, it’s all in vain if the protection falls flat. Out of the software we tested in our antivirus reviews, these five reign supreme in protection. In this guide to the most secure antivirus, we’re going to pit the best antivirus software against each other to give you the best options on the market. We’ll share how we made our selections, then compare lab results to our hands-on testing to show you how well a particular antivirus performed ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. RStudio Server provides a browser-based interface for R and a popular tool among data scientists. Data scientist use Apache Spark cluster running on  Amazon EMR to perform distributed training. In a previous blog post, the author showed how you can install RStudio Server on Amazon EMR cluster. However, in certain scenarios you might want to install it on a standalone Amazon EC2 instance and connect to a remote Amazon EMR cluster. Benefits of running RStudio on EC2 include the following:Running RStudio Server on an EC2 instance, you can keep your scientific models and model artifacts ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With Session Manager, you can improve security, centralize access management, and receive detailed auditing. In addition to not requiring you to open inbound ports, you can use Session Manager with AWS PrivateLink to prevent traffic from going through the public internet. By using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, you have a single, central place to grant and revoke access to instances. Once access is provided, you can audit which user accessed an instance using AWS CloudTrail and log each command to Amazon S3 or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Session Manager users can get started quickly by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: tiffany jernigan (@tiffanyfayj). Private registry authentication support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available with the AWS Fargate launch type! Now, in addition to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), you can use any private registry or repository of your choice for both EC2 and Fargate launch types. For ECS to pull from a private repository, it needs a secret in AWS Secrets Manager with your registry credentials, an ECS task execution IAM role in AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) with a policy granting access to the secret, and a task with the secret and task execution ... Read More