Tag: privacy

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Samantha Leggat. It feels like 1999 all over again, when Y2K was looming and IT pros were pulling consecutive all-nighters to get ready for it. GDPR, which is a set of rules under which the EU strengthens data protection for approximately 750 million people, is more than cleaning email lists and landing pages. For instance, it requires that consumers are able to request their data be completely deleted from vendor servers if they wish. But let’s look away from the doom and gloom toward the light and opportunities. Yes, there are opportunities. Let’s look at ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Krishna Namburi. Get BindPlane to monitor AWS services on Azure OMS Overview The focus of this blog is to introduce a new set of capabilities coming to BindPlane, Blue Medora’s unique cloud service, which integrates AWS and Azure services seamlessly with Microsoft Azure OMS (Operations Management Suite) for multi-cloud monitoring. No one in the market can do this today. AWS and Azure cloud siloes AWS offers a wide range of services including networking, analytics, application services, and deployment. Microsoft offers services like messaging, media services, CDN, and machine learning. According to Microsoft, 90% of Fortune 500 companies trust the Microsoft Cloud. They take advantage of Microsoft security, privacy, transparency, and compliance (most ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ronit Reger. We are delighted to announce the general availability of SQL Vulnerability Assessment for Azure SQL Database! SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA) provides you a one-stop-shop to discover, track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities. It helps give you visibility into your security state, and includes actionable steps to investigate, manage and resolve security issues, and enhance your database fortifications. VA is available for Azure SQL Database customers as well as for on-premises SQL Server customers via SSMS. If you have data privacy requirements or need to comply with data protection regulations like the European Union ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Anton Shmagin, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSWe are pleased to announce that Amazon FreeRTOS code for ESP32 is available on the Amazon FreeRTOS GitHub repository. Espressif Systems is a multinational, fabless semiconductor company established in 2008, with headquarters in Shanghai and offices in Greater China, India, and Europe. For the last decade, they have been focused on producing connected microcontrollers and System-on-Modules (SoMs) for the emerging mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) markets. Espressif has worked diligently to connect a number of their popular IoT SoMs to Amazon Web Services ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Andrew Burt. Light structure (source: Pixabay) Check out Steve Touw’s session “How will the GDPR impact machine learning?” at the Strata Data Conference in London, May 21-24, 2018. Much has been made about the potential impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data science programs. But there’s perhaps no more important—or uncertain—question than how the regulation will impact machine learning (ML), in particular. Given the recent advancements in ML, and given increasing investments in the field by global organizations, ML is fast becoming the future of enterprise data science. This article ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Prashanth Southekal, PhD. I have been asked many times is data a business asset?. Why is it that an intangible asset like data is not in the company’s balance sheet - a statement of the assets, liabilities, and capital of a business at a particular point in time? Technically, an intangible asset is a non-physical asset that has a multi-period useful life. Examples of intangible business assets are patents, copyrights, customer lists, trademarks, brand names, logo, and data. While data in the recent years has provided competitive advantage to many companies, five ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Laurel Ruma. Networked (source: Pixabay) Check out the full schedule for the O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Jose, CA, June 11-14, 2018. To become more fluent in the language of the global, expanding, maturing web, you’ll want to attend Fluent in San Jose this year. If you're working on the modern web—whether you're independent or part of a large team—and you want to experience hands-on learning, make meaningful connections, and share ideas across communities, then Fluent offers a number of ways to learn the tools, techniques, and tech you’ll need. Fluent covers a broad ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ale Flores. By Ale Flores, Global Segment Lead for Blockchain at AWSBlockchain has the potential to enable new possibilities that were previously out of reach for many organizations. For enterprises globally, blockchain provides decentralized, secure, transparent, and immutable interactions, processes, and transactions. However, the fundamental aspects of blockchain that make it unique—such as its peer-to-peer distributed network architecture and heavy use of cryptography—constitute a steep learning curve for organizations that want to use the technology to change how they conduct business processes. Because of this, the promise of blockchain technology for many is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that all AWS services comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we wanted to explore some of the ways AWS can help you on your road to compliance.The GDPR protects European Union data subjects’ fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data. It introduces robust requirements that will raise and harmonize standards for data protection, security, and compliance. In this post, we will walk through the support AWS offers across our AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Premium Support, and AWS Professional ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Laurel Ruma. Sharpest tool in the shed (source: Lachlan Donald on Flickr) Check out Brendan Eich's keynote address “The Coming Era of Privacy by Default: Brave and the Basic Attention Token” at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, June 11-14, 2018. In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, co-founder of the Mozilla Project and Foundation, and CEO and founder of Brave Software. Eich will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming O’Reilly Fluent Conference, July 11-14, 2018, in San Jose. Discussion points: Fixing the broken web: According ... Read More