Tag: privacy

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. More and more websites are requesting personal information and allowing you to make purchases at a touch of a button by storing your credit card information. With that convenience comes significant additional risk. How can you tell whether a site that you’re using has strong security? It can be difficult to identify, but there are a number of ways you can spot the right attitude when it comes to security and user authentication. The Basics: Site Security Certificates The first, easiest way to tell whether a site ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Michael Rabin. On the way to visit a customer recently, I heard a feature on the radio that made me stop and think. The feature was about a fitness chain that was about to open the world's largest gym in Germany. The difference was the membership model. Instead of a monthly membership fee, users would pay with data. As an employee of a data analysis software producer, this raised a lot of questions in my mind: How would it work? What about privacy? How does this change visits to the gym? What are my data worth and what ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Digital trust can make or break a brand. Amazon understood this concept early on. When the company first launched as an online bookseller in 1994, consumer confidence in online shopping was low, to say the least. Exclusively competing with local bookstores, Amazon and many e-tailers throughout the 90s and early 2000s had to work to create trust in online shopping. Their efforts paid off, ushering in a new era and transforming the way we all shop today. Amazon is a good example of digital trust making a brand. But data ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Benjamin Nussbaum, President & CTO of AtomRain | October 17, 2017  In early 2016, we started pioneering a unique frontier in cloud where many companies including Amazon Web Services (AWS) have not ventured: The deployment automation of secure, globally connected virtual private clouds (VPCs). We see the ability to communicate securely rather than across public internet as a baseline security requirement for any organization.Why Your Current Security Efforts Aren’t EnoughTo date Neo4j Enterprise Edition hasn’t provided any encryption on traffic between cluster members. Meaning if you deploy three Neo4j instances in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Naveen Chhabra. Countdown to GDPR — are you ready? Watch the webinar replay    I am pleased to announce that the new Forrester Wave™: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2017 for infrastructure and operations professionals is now live! This Wave evaluation uncovered a market in which two vendor solutions — Commvault and Veritas Technologies — emerged as Leaders, although their strengths differ. Another four providers — Actifio, IBM, HPE (now Micro Focus), and Veeam Software — are Strong Performers. Dell EMC is a Contender. We developed a comprehensive criteria set in three high-level buckets: current offering, strategy, ... Read More

Feed: Cloud – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Cy Jervis. Cloudera Director 2.6 introduces support for protecting communications with TLS and SSH host keys. Azure support is enhanced with support for Azure Managed Disks and custom images.. Cloudera Director helps you deploy, scale, and manage Cloudera clusters in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Its enterprise-grade features deliver a mechanism for establishing production-ready clusters in the cloud for big-data workloads and applications in a simple, reliable, automated fashion. In this post, you will learn about new functionality in release 2.6, but first, for those new to Cloudera Director, let’s revisit what ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Greg Cottingham. In honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), we have a new post in our series highlighting real-world attacks that Azure Security Center helped detect, investigate, and mitigate. This post is about an attack which used PowerShell to run malicious code and collect user credentials. But before we jump in, here’s a recap of other blog posts in our series where Security Center detected a: SQL Brute Force attack Bitcoin mining attack DDoS attack using cyber threat intelligence Good applications being used maliciously In this post, we’ll walk through another interesting real-world attack ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 12 OCT 2017 | in Public Sector | Permalink |  Share The AWS Quick Start for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) automates the deployment of a compliant AWS Cloud environment for healthcare workloads in just a few clicks. It builds a repeatable and auditable cloud reference architecture that addresses the 52 statutes of HIPAA Phase 1 and the 180 statutes of HIPAA Phase 2 that protect the privacy and security of health information. The Quick Start deploys a model environment that can help organizations with workloads that ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jean-Marc Prieur. ADAL.NET (Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory) is an authentication library which enables developers to acquire tokens from Azure AD and ADFS to access Microsoft APIs or applications registered with Azure Active Directory. ADAL.NET is available on several .NET platforms including Desktop, Universal Windows Platform, Xamarin / Android, Xamarin iOS, Portable Class Libraries, and .NET Core. We just released ADAL.NET 3.17.0 which enables new capabilities and brings improvements in terms of usability, privacy, and performance. Enabling new capabilities ADAL.Net 3.17.0 enables you to: Write more efficient applications, tolerant to Azure AD throttling. Force end users of your apps ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Michela Guerra. Nearly two years ago, we launched the Bright Data blog platform to serve the Central East Europe region of SAS. It was designed to enable us to discuss and share ideas with customers in the region, around issues such as analytics, customer intelligence, risk and data management. And, indeed, Bright Data has served us well over that period. We have blogged and posted in both English and local languages, and engaged with customers and each other around analytics and data science. We have discussed a wide range of subjects, including data quality monitoring, the ... Read More