With no end in sight to extreme weather patterns that could have implications for data centers and even cybersecurity, the time is ripe for IT leaders to plan for energy efficiency and resilience.
Aqua Security s Latest Report Highlights Increase in Cloud Attacks
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Aqua Security, the creators of the Aqua Platform, published a report outlining their analysis of a year s worth of security remediation data. This report found that nearly no organization addressed all identified issues with enterprise organizations taking on average 88 days to resolve the issues they do address. Their analysis found a large increase in attacks against container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
The report provided a number of recommendations to help reduce the threat exposure. They highlight the importance of a formal, standardized remediation process regardless of organization size. David Ellis, vice president at SecurityMetrics, defines six phases in a remediation process. These include: preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, and retrospective.
Traveling in the Age of COVID-19: Big Data Is Watching
Traveling in the Age of COVID-19: Big Data Is WatchingBy Bernard Brode on
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With news of the first dose of a vaccine successfully administered, it
appears that we might finally be seeing the beginning of the end of the COVID-19
pandemic. However, it’s also clear that the impact of the virus and the ways
we have responded to it will last for many years. Long after the health and
economic effects have faded.
Those of us who work in technology have been aware of this for some time, of course. Back at the beginning of the pandemic, we were warning that the security of medical devices might become a very real problem this year. Similarly, we warned that the use of big data to fight the pandemic ran the risk of setting a problematic precedent when it came to the right to personal privacy.