Tag: Security

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When accessing an API or database in R, it is often necessary to provide credentials such as a login name and password. You may find yourself being prompted with something like this: When writing an R script that requires a user to provide credentials, you will want a way to have the script prompt the user or, better yet, programatically provided the credentials in the R script. Either way, be careful! You don’t want to put your credentials out there in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; The UK offers some of the best free content of any country in the world. Between the BBC serving shows such as Sherlock and MasterChef to UK-exclusive media such as Channel 4, there are a lot of reasons why you’d want to appear as if you’re in the UK. Of course, buying a plane ticket isn’t the only way to stream everything Britain has to offer. In this guide on how to get a British IP address, we’re going to show you a workaround for accessing all the content the UK has to offer. Over ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . NVIDIA is not necessarily known for powering low power AI applications. Most of its artificial intelligence (AI) focus has been on powering high power cloud or data center applications, where its Tesla graphics processing unit (GPU) processors have largely led the market. However, over the last 12 months, NVIDIA has accelerated its reach beyond the data center and is now building its portfolio to service low power AI edge applications. When it comes to AI at the edge, NVIDIA has been focusing on the automotive sector with its Xavier platform and on robotics and ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jim Hatcher, Principal Architect. Microservices are starting to take over nearly every aspect & angle of modern enterprises In one survey of more than 350 senior development stakeholders, 91% said they are currently using or have plans to use microservices and 92% said they increased their number of microservices in the last year. This rise has come in conjunction with an imperative for businesses to be far more agile in their development of applications and software—an imperative driven by increasing amounts and types of data. The microservices imperative Historically, when organizations developed ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Josh Zelonis. Every year, the RSA Conference provides an opportunity to attend a few keynotes and get together with friends, old and new, to discuss trends we’re seeing in the market. While a big theme on the expo floor this year was Zero Trust, there were three topics that I found unavoidable during the conference and weren’t accompanied by a vendor pitch. Conversations about the impact of geopolitical threats on cybersecurity are nothing new. On the keynote stage, experts from US federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Previously, the Kubernetes API endpoint was accessible from outside of your VPC. Worker nodes needed to call outside of your VPC to get the correct IP addresses to connect to the API server and access to the API server was limited using security groups.Now, you can manage access to the endpoint so that all traffic to the API server stays within your VPC. This gives you an additional layer of security and control over your Kubernetes clusters managed by EKS.To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. This capability, called advanced query, provides a single endpoint to query resource configuration, relationships, and tags across all services that AWS Config supports. This means that you don’t have to execute individual describe API calls across each service endpoint to retrieve this information, resulting in operational efficiencies and improved user experience. It’s easy to get started with advanced query in the AWS Config console or through APIs. When you enable AWS Config in your account, AWS Config discovers and records your resource configuration state, tags, and relationships. In the AWS Config console, under Resources>Advanced query, choose a ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Your production database environment stores personally identifiable information in an encrypted form, limits access to these fields and masks them when displayed. However, some types of data encryption create potential performance problems as well as security issues. Your data may be at risk unless you mask it effectively. The State of Database Security The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective worldwide in May 2018. It applies to any company that obtains data from any customer in the European Union and provides for extremely harsh penalties for companies that breach ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meditab, a California-based software company, leaked thousands of doctor’s notes, medical records, and prescriptions daily after a security lapse left an Elasticsearch server without a password.  This is the 7th time in 2019, we have written about a company exposing data via a misconfigured Elasticsearch server. Here are the six other orgs this year that have misconfigured Elasticsearch servers: What happened this time? Meditab, who describes themselves as a secure online electronic medical records & practice management software, processes electronic faxes for healthcare providers.  However, according to TechCrunch, their ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jonathan Federico. We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure. Now customers can access the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and apps. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, while enjoying built-in security and compliance. This means customers can now virtualize using multi-session Windows 10, Windows 7, and Windows Server desktops and apps (RDS) to Windows Virtual Desktop for ... Read More