Tag: Security

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; Follow @IBMDataIn the airline industry, timing and synchronization are everything when it comes to the customer experience. Mitigating unforeseen circumstances against customer expectations and good old supply and demand are all issues well within the wheelhouse of AI’s predictive capabilities. It’s no wonder that Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany’s largest airline, recognized early on that with the right data and AI strategy, it could enhance the customer experience and better empower its employees while achieving operational excellence. In less than two years, the airline has quickly moved from AI ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows customers to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across their accounts and resources. With Firewall Manager customers can manage AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and VPC security groups across their entire AWS Organization. Firewall Manager ensures that all firewall rules are consistently enforced, even as new accounts and resources are created. You can use Firewall Manager in the following AWS regions today: Americas (Northern Virginia, Montreal, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, São Paulo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm, Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong), ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The new rules verify security and operational best practices for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon EC2, AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Redshift, AWS Web Application Firewall and Elastic Load Balancing. For a full list of newly launched rules and supported Regions, click here. To learn more about AWS Config, visit the AWS Config webpage and technical documentation.   ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Managing identity and access in the cloud is a complex problem, far more complex than it is in traditional, on-premise IT environments guarded by an explicit firewall. As the number of data breaches attributed to illicit or improper access continues to grow, it’s clear that this problem is here to stay. But what makes identity and access management (IAM) an ongoing obstacle for many organizations? And what can organizations do to reduce their risk in this capacity? Let’s start with the basics. First and foremost, what is IAM? According to Gartner, IAM is “the discipline ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. “Nothing is constant except for change.” – UnknownWe are announcing the availability of a new version of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We’ve made changes in response to your feedback, as well as to industry trends that are becoming widely adopted. We focused on four themes: removing perceived repetition, adding content areas to explicitly call out previously implied best practices, and revising best practices to provide clarity. These changes are intended to make it easier for you to understand and implement the best practices in your workloads. In addition to updating all the Well-Architected Pillar whitepapers to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can assign tags to dataset groups, datasets, dataset import jobs, predictors, forecasts and forecast export jobs within Forecast. Each tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value that can make it easier to manage and filter resources. Tagging allows you to better manage and classify your Forecast resources and enables several use cases including providing access control and security risk management to name a few. Without tags, enterprises or independent software vendors (ISVs) with multiple resources and users would need to define an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With AWS WAF Security Automations, customers can automatically deploy a single web access control list with a set of AWS WAF rules to filter common threats and protect web applications and APIs deployed with Amazon CloudFront, an Application Load Balancer, or an Amazon API Gateway. This latest release integrates with AWS WAFv2 API and includes enhancements to existing features for improved performance and cost optimization.  Additional performance improvements to AWS WAF Security Automations version 3.0 include: Customers have the option to automatically deploy AWS Managed Rules Eliminated the dependency on NodeJS; updated code to Python 3.8 Resolved API ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS).We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. There are tens of thousands of APN Partners across the globe. More than 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize APN Partner solutions and services. To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Service Delivery, AWS Service Ready, and AWS Managed Services Provider ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Amanda Lowe. Manufacturing industries only realize 20 to 30 percent of the value of their data. By consistently leveraging the value of their data, manufacturing companies could reduce product development costs by up to 50 percent and operating costs by up to 25 percent, while increasing their gross margins by one third[1]. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a data lever – it brings machines, field assets at the edge, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve the performance and productivity of industrial processes. With IIoT, industrial companies can digitize ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. You can now manage your Amazon RDS instances using the Amazon RDS API without requiring an Internet Gateway in your VPC, instead using AWS PrivateLink with private IP connectivity and security groups to meet your compliance requirements.  The Amazon RDS API is a webservice that enables you to set up, operate, scale, pause, and resume your Amazon RDS databases programmatically via AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs). With today’s launch, by using AWS PrivateLink you can invoke management operations using the ... Read More