February 19, 2019 – P97 Networks and Transaction Network Services (TNS) are leading the way in facilitating secure, efficient, and reliable connected vehicle and mobile payments across North America and Europe. Under the agreement, TNS provides P97 a managed tokenization service enabling the secure provisioning and payment authorization of consumer card-on-file accounts for mobile and […]
Should We Worry About the IoT Being Used as a Weapon of Mass Control?
Illustration: © IoT For All A WHO report shows 35 percent of women, worldwide, have experienced violence, and 38 percent of murdered women were killed by their male intimate partner. These figures are frightening. As a woman who has experienced this type of violence, I know how easily it can happen. However, what I want to […]
Amazon EFS Now Supports Tag-on-Create
Amazon EFS provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. By assigning tags inline with file system creation, you can more easily enforce authorization, access control, and cost allocation for your EFS resources. You can manage resource tags for your Amazon EFS file systems […]
What Might Be Missing from Your Open Source Evaluation
When implementing open source software, look beyond the license terms to understand who is driving change on the software. Most enterprises considering an open source solution understand they need to rigorously evaluate the software’s licensing terms and gauge the long-term health of its community and ecosystem. What still happens less frequently – but is just […]
How Digital Twins Can Help Retailers Give More to Food Banks
A large portion of the food we waste is in perfectly good condition for human consumption, especially considering there is a large number of food-insecure people. Food wastage occurs at all levels of the supply chain, from farms to distributors to consumers. Food that would otherwise end up in a landfill is contributing to greenhouse […]
Searching For a Cloud-Native App Strategy Amid the Chaos
As it gets easier and easier to deploy cloud-native apps, maintaining order increasingly becomes a challenge. It is time to get the house in order. The growing trend of developing cloud-native apps has some experts cautioning that rampant deployment can result in confusion. Developers might build a flurry of apps on their own, for instance, […]
Use Athena Workgroups to Separate Workloads Between Users or Applications, View Query Metrics, and Enforce Control Controls
For each Workgroup, you can also view aggregated query-related metrics in AWS CloudWatch, and mandate Workgroup settings that apply to all queries running in the Workgroup. Examples of such settings include Amazon S3 locations where results are stored and encryption options. You can enforce cost controls by creating data usage controls that apply to all […]
Defending Against IoT “Accidental” Insider Threats
When considering insider threats faced by the Internet of Things (IoT) systems, few will be surprised to learn that protecting a network with a growing number of connected devices from a maliciously motivated insider is becoming increasingly problematic. Insider threats aren’t a new problem—cybersecurity professionals have been defending against them for years—but the complexity of […]
More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid
We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. We are proud to announce the general availability […]
Kali Linux 2019.1 released with support for Metasploit 5.0
Yesterday, Kali Linux’s first release for 2019 was announced. Kali Linux 2019.1 comes with a variety of changes and new features including, support for Metasploit version 5.0, kernel up to version 4.19.13, ARM updates and numerous bug fixes. Users with a Kali installation can upgrade using: root@kali:~# apt update && apt -y full-upgrade You can […]