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3 Ways to Protect Your Company from AWS Security Issues

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Regardless of the purpose for which you use Amazon Web Services, or AWS, you must protect your company from potential security issues. While AWS has excellent security features, consumers are still responsible for portions of their own security because Amazon can’t dictate how you use their services. Following are three ways to use AWS securely and without worry.

Watch For Strange Internal Activity

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Did you know that nearly 90 percent of occupational fraud is perpetrated by employees with no prior history of criminal or suspect behavior? The best background check in the world can’t predict future acts against your company in a previously upstanding individual, and unfortunately, security breaches sometimes happen from within. [Read more…] about 3 Ways to Protect Your Company from AWS Security Issues

Working Loud and Proud In the Cloud

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The era of the Cloud has arrived. Early adopters jumped in and have been swimming around in the misty globules above the earth for some time now. And the rest of the world is joining in, personally, professionally, and theoretically. But the Cloud really isn’t in the sky. It’s more like it’s an extension of your fingertips, and an outreach of your brain, and in reach of your computer’s processing power. Have you embraced it yet, you technological wizard, you?

If you missed the early train, you still might need a briefer on the Cloud, but after that, you can decipher where in the puzzle infrastructure, personal and business use, media consumption, and storage security fit. It’s all as fascinating as it is practical. [Read more…] about Working Loud and Proud In the Cloud