Tag: privacy

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; It can be annoying when you can’t access the content or online service you want because of geoblocks. If you’re a South African abroad and you’re trying to look at content restricted to your country, you’ll be left looking at an error message. You need to get a South African IP address to view it, so we’re going to show you how to get one. It may just look like a bunch of random numbers, but your IP address has a lot of hidden information in it. When you go online, it tells the website or ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In many organisations, IT security and data governance processes can be complex since data is stored across multiple environments and applications. Data privacy, including data classification, is now a core component of security requirements. Organisations need an easier and more pragmatic approach in administering their data assets to mitigate operational risk.Mandatory data privacy regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Information Security Manual (ISM) data stores were administered by IT security based on their environment, application, group of users, and/or use cases. Now, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Daisy Rowley. Data Storage: A Look at 3 Main Types & Determining Which is Best for Your Business(Alternative title – Data storage: which of the 3 types is best for your business?I remember when I first started my business several years ago. And one of the last things on my mind while trying to get it up and running was how I was going to store my data.As my business, Click Intelligence started to grow, the files started piling up in my laptop. I quickly learned that I could no longer get away with ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS has developed a new FAQ page to help answer questions our customers may have on the CLOUD Act, and AWS’s responsibility to protect customer data.In short, the CLOUD Act does not impact AWS services or how we operate our business. Historically, we have received very few United States law enforcement requests, and we are transparent about the number of requests that we receive. We are always vigilant about customer privacy and security, and we are committed to providing our customers with industry-leading privacy and security protections when using our products ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now. Those that believe that CCPA is not their problem must think again: This is likely to be the first of many state-level privacy requirements. And this is just the beginning. Our data shows that compliance with global privacy laws is one of the top three challenges CISOs face, on par with the changing threat landscape ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; Every time you type a website address into the URL bar of your browser, it triggers a complex series of events that connect your computer with the website. Part of the process is for your computer to retrieve the IP address of that website’s server. This information is given to your computer by a DNS, or domain name system. It’s a “middleman” reminiscent of an operator on old-timey phone exchange. Your computer contacts the DNS and tells it the URL for the website you are trying to reach. The DNS then provides the address of ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Scotch.io; The importance of online code editing platforms cannot be overemphasized. As much as we love our local IDE's, one too many times we find ourselves needing to quickly share and or collaborate with a friend or colleague in our local projects. Table of ContentsIn cases like this, online playgrounds give us that added functionality to write and run codes as well as share snippets and have colleagues test it out and give us feedback. In this post, we'll be looking at the top 5 online code editors for JavaScript in no particular order. CodePen is ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; NordVPN is one of our go-to providers when making virtual private network recommendations. It held multiple spots in our best VPN guide and beat the competition in our NordVPN vs. CyberGhost and NordVPN vs. PIA comparisons. Though it fell short in our ExpressVPN vs. NordVPN guide, it’s superior to almost any other provider. IPVanish, on the other hand, is a middle-of-the-road provider that would be good if it wasn’t for questionable business practices. In this comparison of NordVPN vs. IPVanish, we’re going to pit the providers against each other to see which is the better ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Everyone’s favorite corporate-driven holiday is here, and for the fortunate among you with significant others, that means a day of love, gifts and celebration. For everyone else, it probably means looking for love, and there’s no easier way to do that than with online dating apps. Chocolates and flowers are fine, but this Valentine’s Day, Cloudwards.net wants to give you a far more valuable gift. Admittedly, it’ll be like getting socks for Christmas, but if you didn’t have them, you’d be walking around with blisters every day (or just look like an unbearable hipster). We’re ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; MEGA advertises itself as “the privacy company,” while Tresorit emphasizes its security features. The former service is near the top of our best cloud storage list, while the latter occupies the spot below it. We’ll see if that order holds when we compare them in this MEGA vs Tresorit battle. If you want to know more about them, read our separate MEGA review and Tresorit review. If you can’t make up your mind, refer to our best cloud storage guide for help. Both are on it and can easily be compared with others. Cloud storage ... Read More