Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) on Bare Metal is a new deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service that launched this week. Why bare metal? In the age of the cloud it would seem to go against “best practices.” On the contrary. While we tend to overuse the term, “hybrid cloud,” it is a real thing. Enterprises come in all shapes and sizes — and so do their compute choices and privacy requirements.
Monero (XMR) is an open-source, privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that was launched in 2014. It uses a public distributed ledger containing technology that obscures transaction details to ensure the anonymity of its users. Monero maintains egalitarian mining, allowing anyone to participate. As tempting as it may seem, some go a step further and use the infrastructure of others to participate in mining. Cryptocurrency mining was originally performed using CPUs, and Monero was no different.]
Not all cybersecurity vulnerabilities are created equal. Some vulnerabilities have the potential to bring the entire organization to a halt, such as in the case of ransomware. Meanwhile, other vulnerabilities may only create limited opportunities for exploitation, putting them lower on the list of things to patch.
Just when you thought that we couldn’t be any more integrated with (and dependent on) technology, the Covid pandemic swooped in to prove otherwise. The rise in the use of applications and devices to perform even basic functions pushed companies and end-users to keep pace. Of course, one group of people always seem to be ready: cybercriminals. Cyber attacks are steeply increasing, and attackers are cunning, always finding new ways to get what they want.
Many organizations build applications using microservices that often communicate with other distributed services. Ensuring that they remain secure requires a “secure token service,” secure communication protocols (mTLS), authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
Speaking with clients, I find one of the biggest issues they struggle with how to properly secure Guest access in Microsoft 365 applications. While many organizations had already begun outsourcing their email to M365, most had really only begun looking at the rest of the M365 offering (Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive) when COVID hit. Most organizations wound up diving headfirst into this offering in an attempt to deal with the sudden need to work and collaborate with colleagues from home.
Schools and colleges were the worst hit by cyberattacks during the global health crisis in 2020. According to a report by GCN, ransomware attacks alone affected over 1,680 schools, colleges, and universities in the US. Such attacks also targeted 44% of educational institutions across the world. Schools worldwide are back to normal sessions and for many learners, that means spending hours online studying, doing homework, and submitting assignments.
