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Microsoft Accidentally Exposes 38TB of Sensitive Data

SecureWorld News

In a recent report by cloud security firm Wiz, it has come to light that Microsoft's AI research division inadvertently exposed a staggering 38 terabytes of sensitive data due to a misconfiguration involving Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens. In response to the incident, Microsoft acted swiftly and decisively.

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How Advances in Cloud Security Can Help with Ransomware

CIO Business Intelligence

Another out-of-date belief is that frequent backups are the best recovery strategy. While that may be true for less capable attacks, an attacker that is already inside a network not only has the opportunity to compromise backups, but also exfiltrate (and ultimately leak) critical data. Close back doors. Data has no jurisdiction.

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Cloud Conversations: Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates

Storage IO Blog

One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. Aurora is positioned as an alternative to traditional SQL based transactional databases commonly found in enterprise environments (e.g. SQL Server among others).

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Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage by Microsoft/Storsimple Marc Farley

Storage IO Blog

Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple (..)

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Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

Storage IO Blog

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is March 31 2015 (@worldbackupday) so now is a good time to be ready. The only challenge that I have with the World Backup Day (view their site here) that has gone on for a few years know is that it is a good way to call out the importance of backing up or protecting data.

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World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder

Storage IO Blog

World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day).

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Data Protection Fundamentals Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions)

Storage IO Blog

Enabling Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions) Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 4 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics (..)

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