Tag: Data and analytics
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Exploring Windows UAC bypasses: Techniques and detection strategies
Posted on February 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Malware often requires full administrative privileges on a machine to perform more impactful actions such as adding an antivirus exclusion, encrypting secured files, or injecting code into interesting system processes. By @sbousseaden.
Tags leadership-and-career security-and-privacy miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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Top concerns for operating cloud-native technologies
Posted on February 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
Platform9 announced the results of its research, revealing that 91% of survey respondents cite security, consistent management across environments, high availability, and observability as their top concerns for operating cloud-native technologies. By @helpnetsecurity.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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Enabling transparent data encryption for Microsoft SQL with Vault
Posted on February 3, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn how HashiCorp Vault can help secure data in Microsoft SQL Server using a defense-in-depth encryption strategy. By Narayan Iyengar.
Tags data-and-analytics security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Ray on databricks
Posted on January 31, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ray is an open-source project first developed at RISELab that makes it simple to scale any compute-intensive Python workload. With a rich set of libraries and integrations built on a flexible distributed execution framework, Ray brings new use cases and simplifies the development of custom distributed Python functions that would normally be complicated to create. By Stephen Offer.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development ai-and-machine-learning
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How using same programming language for IaC made AWS Step Function testable
Posted on January 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
AWS Step Functions are difficult to test. I found an approach to testing that helped in one particular scenario. It relies on using the same programming language for both testing and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I hope the idea helps others tame their Step Functions into a testable submission. By Graham Allan.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis testing-and-quality
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Search indexing best practices for top performance (with code samples)
Posted on January 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Every search interface relies on a fast back-end data-indexing process that keeps its search results up to date in as timely a manner as possible. But search indexing is only one side of the coin. The other side is the real-time speed of a high-quality relevant search engine. By Peter Villani.
Tags software-engineering backend-development frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics product-and-design
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Privacy fines: GDPR sanctions in 2021 exceeded $1 billion
Posted on January 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Privacy regulators in Europe last year imposed known fines totaling more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, bolstered in part by two record-breaking sanctions, according to the law firm DLA Piper. But sanctions approach varies widely across 31 countries complying with privacy law. By Mathew J. Schwartz.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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What identity management teaches CSOs/CDOs about data-centric security
Posted on January 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At the turn of the 21st century, the identity management discipline within IT Security was born of necessity. Advancements in computer technology meant that every area, function, and discipline within organizations was turning to automation to gain a competitive advantage. A computer was placed on every desk, and servers, mini-computers, and mainframes were being deployed to automate every area of the business. By Chris Olive.
Tags data-and-analytics security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career how-to
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How to build a GraphQL data layer for REST microservices
Posted on January 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
GraphQL is a great technology for microservices because you can use it as a data layer for these microservices. One use case is to combine the data from all these services into a single, unified API. By Roy Derks.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development data-and-analytics
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How to create a KPI dashboard in Power BI to make smarter decisions faster
Posted on January 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Imagine having a business meeting where you are given puzzles instead of information. To get to the KPI dashboard to round up your performance, you need to piece the puzzle together. Sounds funny, right? Well, in reality, meetings or preparing a report often consist of pure efforts to obtain and interpret the right data.By Blaz Abe.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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How serverless saved money on my heating bill
Posted on January 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Built a serverless application as a weekend project to help me save money on my heating bill. In doing so, I experienced something great about building websites in 2022. By Cameron McHenry.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure how-to
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Costs of being an analytics laggard... and path to becoming a leader
Posted on January 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How much money is your organization leaving on the table by not being more effective at leveraging data and analytics to power your business? This question is becoming more and more relevant for all organizations of all sizes in all industries as AI / ML capabilities become more widely available. And nothing highlights the costs of not becoming more effective at leveraging data and analytics to power your business models then a recent study by Kearney titled "The impact of analytics in 2020". Posted by Bill Schmarzo.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to