The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

One anecdote illustrates the challenge from Microsoft’s perspective: “Repeatedly in late 2020 we found people in federal agencies asking us about information in other parts of the government, because it was easier to get it from us than directly from other federal employees.

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GeekWire

APRIL 10, 2023

A judge dismissed most of Amazon’s claims in a lawsuit alleging that former Amazon Web Services real estate managers conspired with outside firms to receive kickbacks on data center development deals. The former employees deny the allegations. The April 6 summary judgment ruling , by U.S. District Judge Rossie D.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is an information security concept that maintains that a user or entity should only have access to the specific data, resources, and applications needed to complete a required task. Traditional security methods that rely on data center and database-level controls will not work in this new world.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

By 2020 major international cities will have car-free downtowns. Adoption of IoT devices will exceed predictions, reaching 50 billion devices by 2020. Today Oracle is leading the charge, building new data centers full of bare-metal servers. They first introduced Amazon Web Services in 2005 with just three services.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Gartner cautions that Cloudflare lacks some features, such as file malware sandboxing, DEM, and full-featured built-in reporting and analytics. Features include the ability to support remote browser isolation, DLP, and cloud malware detection. Fortinet acquired the startup Opaq in 2020 as part of its pivot from SD-WAN to SASE.

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