Tag: Security

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Niel Dunnage. Posted in Technical | January 21, 2022 9 min read This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The architecture reflects the four pillars of security engineering best practice, Perimeter, Data, Access and Visibility. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Apache Ranger for security policy management Updated Ranger Key Management service Before diving into the technologies it is worth becoming familiar with the key security principle of a layered approach that facilitates defense in depth ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Health and automatically receives security-related findings from AWS Health to provide you with a more complete view of your AWS security posture. AWS Health delivers alerts about your resource performance and the availability of your AWS services and accounts. AWS Health alerts also cover some security topics, and those security-related alerts are now sent to Security Hub. Examples of security-related alerts from AWS Health include alerts about compromised AWS access keys, security alerts about an AWS service (e.g., an older version of a AWS RDS database that needs to be ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jigar Kapasi. By Jigar Kapasi, Sr. Cloud Architect – KyndrylBy Venkat Reddy, Cloud Automation Architect – KyndrylBy Koushik Mohan, Partner Solutions Architect – AWSBy Bala Ravilla, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Kyndryl The CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark is a compliance standard for securing Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, offering prescriptive instructions for configuring AWS services in accordance with industry best practices. In May 2018, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) published the most recent version of the benchmark (1.2.0) and AWS Security Hub implements this version. Customers using cloud resources on AWS can ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor uses checks to evaluate your account, which identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas. With this launch, not only can you view a more in-depth assessment of your security posture without leaving Trusted Advisor, but your AWS Technical Account Managers have more context to quickly assist you in improving your security posture.  Security Hub controls will automatically appear as checks in Trusted Advisor if you have enabled the Foundational Security Best Practices security standard, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; One of the main benefits of cloud storage is keeping a copy of your data somewhere other than your computer. Physical devices are prone to failure, and laptops can easily get lost or stolen. Keeping a cloud backup of your files is key to any good data protection strategy, which is why cloud security is extremely important. Key Takeaways: When choosing a cloud storage service, your top priority should be choosing one with good security and privacy.Zero-knowledge encryption is the first cloud security feature you should look for in a service. It ensures that only ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Codership; There are plenty of articles on the Internet that tell you to setup a Galera Cluster by disabling an OS based firewall and also disabling SELinux. While we agree that this might be the fastest way to get your Galera Cluster setup, it is not necessarily good security hygiene, and we would prefer if you started 2022 with a bit more secure Galera Cluster! What is SELinux? Is is Security-Enhanced Linux that allows administrators to allow who has more control over the system. It has permissive and enforcing mode, and is turned on by default ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sanjeev Verma. In my previous blog post, I discussed a new content type introduced in Tableau Data Management with our 2021.4 release: virtual connections. In addition to the sharing and management benefits, virtual connections now provide a centralized point of access to your data through which all queries flow–which makes them the perfect place to enforce your data security rules. Data Policies for Row-Level Security, a feature also added in 2021.4, lets you control who can see what data anywhere in Tableau. Row-level security (RLS) in Tableau refers to restricting the rows of data a certain ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Rich Campagne. By Rich Campagne, Sr. Vice President, Cloud Protection – ZscalerBy Henning Els, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS Zscaler The notion of shared responsibility has become very popular in the public cloud, and rightly so. There are some elements of security that a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) like Amazon Web Services (AWS) should handle, and there are other areas the cloud customer is better suited to solve. This division has been codified in the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. At a high level, AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure on which the ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Ryan Williamson. Companies today need to be nimble and ready in the face of constantly evolving technology and changing consumer preferences. To achieve this, organizations are switching to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It enables companies to rapidly deploy and scale technology that meets the growing (or shrinking) demand without having to invest in expensive IT infrastructure. This is an efficient and cost-effective solution that makes it easier for businesses of all sizes to drive innovation. And, by now though most organizations are aware of the value delivered by AWS yet many of them have an ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Arvind Lakshminarayanan. Many businesses have experienced rapid digitization amid the pandemic. Several enterprises shifted to remote working and cloud-based platforms. For the past 22 months, the world was placed on alert as several countries experienced multiple surges of Covid-19 infections, resulting in localized lockdowns, closure of several businesses, and enforced home quarantine. The pandemic tested an organization’s resiliency as they were not prepared for the abrupt changes.Many companies clamored to put additional security measures as employees have to access corporate data frequently and from places that may not be secure. IT departments were doubly ... Read More