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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

These are examples of consumer-oriented sensors and devices, but that has occurred in parallel with business, professional, infrastructure, government and military applications. Here are some examples…. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

In the fast-evolving world of finance, data security is of paramount importance. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a crucial framework to which financial institutions must adhere. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a crucial framework to which financial institutions must adhere.

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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. Why is it necessary to rethink how networking and security is handled? BPF/XDP allows for a 10x improvement in load balancing over IPVS for L3/L4 traffic.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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Creating an AWS ELB using Pulumi and Go

Scott Lowe

Unfortunately, examples of using Pulumi with Go seem to be more limited than examples of using Pulumi with other languages, so in this post I’d like to share how to create an AWS ELB using Pulumi and Go. I hope this example helps. The idea of combining both those reasons by using Pulumi with Go seemed natural.

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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data

CIO Business Intelligence

To comply with government regulations and/or internal security policies, organizations may find it necessary to secure sensitive data on-premises. Technology such as load-balancing ensures that all resources in a cluster are doing approximately the same amount of work.

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