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Last Updated on 23 Oct. 2015, Total: 168 Blog Posts

  1. Alert Logic key findings about the state of Cloud Security

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 9 April 2013
    • Section: General

    The cloud is not inherently less safe. Among the six security incident categories examined, Web application attack was the only threat category more prevalent in cloud hosting provider environments than in enterprise environments... Read More

  2. Amazon AWS Console Mobile App

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 May 2014
    • Section: General

    Amazon adds support for its cloud storage S3 and DNS Route 53 on its AWS Console Mobile App... Read More

  3. Amazon AWS announces 12 new cloud computing instance types

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 April 2014
    • Section: General

    Amazon AWS adds support for 12 additional EC2 instance types... Read More

  4. Amazon Cloud Test Drive Program

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 11 Feb. 2014
    • Section: General

    Test Drive categories include AWS Big Data Test Drive Labs, AWS Security Test Drive Labs and Learning Management Systems... Read More

  5. Amazon has fixed a problem that helped hackers gain control over Honan's online accounts

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 21 Aug. 2012
    • Section: General

    Following the devastating cyber-attack on Mat Honan's digital life, Amazon changes its policy and fixes the security hole by no longer allowing people to call Amazon and change account settings like credit cards and e-mail addresses. Previously, Amazon's phone policy essentially allowed hackers to use social engineering tricks on support representatives to learn sensitive information about targets like Honan. Read... Read More

  6. Amazon launches a new set of high storage instances

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 4 Jan. 2013
    • Section: General

    The High Storage Eight Extra Large instances are intended for applications that require high storage depth and high sequential I/O performance... Read More

  7. Amazon’s Cloud service new DNS Failover features

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 June 2013
    • Section: General

    Now Amazon is offering DNS failover also for web applications behind its Elastic Load Balancers (ELC) service which was impossible to configure few days ago!... Read More

  8. Amazon’s RDS supports MS SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 July 2012
    • Section: General

    The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, and partitions even if you don't have an expert-level understanding of the structure of your database or the internals of SQL Server. Read more here -... Read More

  9. An Examination of the Cybersecurity Labor Mark

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 April 2015
    • Section: General

    The not-for-profit institution RAND carried out a study about the current status of the labor market for cybersecurity professionals... Read More

  10. An Open, Safe and Secure Cyberspace

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 7 Feb. 2013
    • Section: General

    To safeguard access and openness, to respect and protect fundamental rights online and to maintain the reliability and interoperability of the Internet... Read More