Virtual private networks (VPNs) have long been the go-to tool for businesses to connect remote employees to their networks securely. The recent surge in remote work has only amplified this, with 84 percent of organizations using VPNs predominantly for remote employee access.
Infoblox Inc. recently published a second threat report to provide updates on the remote access toolkit, or RAT, called “Decoy Dog,” which the company discovered in April. To establish command and control, Decoy Dog uses the Domain Name System. The company also suspects it’s a secret tool nation-states use in cyberattacks.
On July 26, a packed Javits Center gathered to hear keynotes and sessions billed as “The cloud event for everyone.” I attended the AWS Summit and I’ll share my key takeaways – all focused on AI in some form. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, delivered the keynote.
Artificial intelligence was the focus this week at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Summit New York, which makes sense given the massive interest in the topic since ChatGPT was launched.
For example, AWS announced several updates to its managed foundational model service, Amazon Bedrock. This was just one of many announcements that make it easier for customers to deploy generative AI to solve complex problems.
FinOps is gaining steam, but companies shouldn’t just forge ahead. They should carefully consider their approach to FinOps. The tech—which garners most of the headlines—is only one ingredient. The amount of data cloud services generate is so complex that people and processes are just as important.