Tag: Security

Feed: Blog. Author: Ron Huizenga; ER/Studio Data Architect contains extensive metadata for all constructs utilized in the models and data dictionaries, whether used in logical modeling, physical modeling, or both. This includes names, descriptions, comments, datatypes, lengths and a myriad of additional properties. However, organizations often wish to define and create additional metadata to further define and classify model objects. This can be for a variety of reasons, but often it is to enable data governance. ER/Studio handles this through a construct called attachments. Attachments can be used to define additional properties for virtually any construct within data models and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate at OmniSciWe generate quintillions of bytes of data every day, but on the face of it the data is not necessarily useful. To make data useful, it should be processed into information. In this post, we’ll talk about how OmniSci, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner, provides a platform to make this process of changing data into information faster, cheaper, and interactive. With the rapid growth of data comes the challenge of getting meaningful information from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. Serverless application architectures enable you to break large projects into smaller, more manageable services that are highly reusable and independently scalable, secured, and evolved over time. As serverless architectures grow, we have seen common patterns that get reimplemented across companies, teams, and projects, hurting development velocity and leading to wasted effort. We have made it easier to develop new serverless architectures that meet organizational best practices by supporting nested applications in AWS SAM and the AWS Serverless Application Repository.How it works Nested applications build off a concept in AWS CloudFormation called nested stacks ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Ashley Austin; One of my favorite parts of working for Workato is meeting what I call “Workato Champions”: people who preach the power of integration and automation to their organizations. These digitally-minded agents of change are at the core of our relationships with our customers. And they’re not all executives or directors; many of them are everyday employees in sales, marketing, IT, and HR. It’s always inspiring to see people champion workflows that solve real problems, helping them and their colleagues work smarter, not harder. But it can also be incredibly frustrating. Over and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Neptune has been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification, which means you can use it to process, store, or transmit payment information. You can download the PCI Compliance Package in AWS Artifact to learn more about how to achieve PCI Compliance on AWS. Amazon Neptune is now also covered under AWS’s ISO 9001, 27001, 27017, and 27018 certifications. These certifications are among the most recognized global security standards attesting to quality and information security management in the cloud, and the protection of personally identifiable information ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Zehra Ali. Biometric authentication is the latest, shiniest toy for large tech companies, especially among manufacturers of smartphones. Technology like fingerprint sensors, iris scans, facial image recognition and voice recognition used to be the stuff of sci-fi movies. But now, thanks to companies like Apple, biometric recognition systems (especially finger scanning), are directing modern smartphones into miracles of ease and suitability. A finger touch can easily unlock a phone without the requirement of a password. A simple fingerprint touch can help you in paying bills, buying groceries, and transfer hundreds worth of money. However, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. Tokenomics is the economy of this new world. This is a no-holds-barred, in-depth exploration of the way in which we can participate in the blockchain economy. The following is an excerpt from the book, Tokenomics by Thomas Power and Sean Au and published by Packt. One of the biggest challenges of playing in the ICO space is trying to understand the rules to play by. Regardless of what anyone says, we all live in a world bound by rules. We always have and always will, yet technology knows no ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; It’s tough to navigate the vast market of online backup solutions. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best online backup solutions to help you choose. That said, if you still can’t make up your mind and you’re weighing CloudBerry Backup vs Acronis True Image, you’re in the right place. We’re going to compare them in this article to see which service is better. Acronis True Image is a standard online backup service, but CloudBerry Backup needs a partner service because it isn’t. Rather, it is an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that doesn’t offer backup space ... Read More