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Deloitte helps orgs automate risk management and compliance with AWS audit tool
Audits are an essential, if tedious, part of a company’s risk management strategy. Before the advent of cloud computing, compliance and audit teams had manual procedures and checklists in place to help keep everything under control. Then, along came cloud with its promises of speed and scalability. Awesome! Except for risk managers, whose physical, stable, ...
MongoDB eliminates security skills gap with its Security Champions initiative
At the time of writing, there are 714,548 open cybersecurity jobs across the United States, with a supply-to-demand ratio of 66 qualified candidates to every 100 open positions. But database-as-a-service provider MongoDB Inc. has no issue finding trained applicants when there’s an opening on its security team. “We have the Champions Program,” said Lena Smart ...
Cequence Security’s six steps to unified API security
Application programming interfaces enable applications to communicate, making users able to access what they want, where they want, when they want from the nebulous “nowhere and everywhere” of the cloud. Without APIs, cloud computing as we know it wouldn’t exist. They are so pervasive that API calls constitute 83% of all web traffic. But this ...
Why is it so hard for companies to adopt multi-layered security practices? They still have on-prem baggage, explain IDC analysts
In their keynote at AWS re:Inforce 2022, AWS’ Steven Schmidt, chief information security officer, and Kurt Kufeld, platform vice president, repeated a theme that was heard at the RSA conference earlier this year: Enterprise-level companies have to up their multifactor authentication game. AWS deals with “quadrillions of events every month,” according to Schmidt. A quadrillion has 15 ...
What to expect during Supercloud 22 event: Join the community Aug. 9
If you’re already part of theCUBE community, you’ll probably be familiar with the term supercloud. In late 2021, theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante (pictured) introduced it in a special report on “What’s Next in Cloud.” Shortly afterward, Vellante and David Floyer, chief technical officer and co-founder of SiliconANGLE sister market research firm Wikibon ...
What to expect during Monaco Crypto Summit: Join theCUBE July 29
What is the future of cryptocurrency? A crystal ball could have saved investors some big losses over the past year, as the market dropped $2 trillion from its November 2021 high to its current valuation. But while some crypto lending platforms and hedge funds are filing for bankruptcy, others are celebrating new funding and acquisitions. ...
AWS Partner Showcase shares advice from successful women in tech
Being a minority in the information technology industry is even more challenging now than it was just three years ago. While most companies have diversity, equality and inclusivity initiatives, or DEIs, to intentionally build a more representative workforce, 75% of software and tech employers said that the pandemic impacted their DEI efforts, according to an industry ...
Teradata and AWS amplify DEI initiatives to create better tech solutions
Today’s technology is driven by customer experience. In 2021, Gartner Inc. put “people centricity” in its Top Strategic Technology Trends for the year, and companies from Amazon Web Services Inc. to Zappos.com Inc. place customer-centricity at the top of their cultural values. Yet society still paints a stereotypical image of the socially awkward, male STEM ...
NetApp and AWS work to close the gender gap in tech
Diversity helps the business bottom line. Studies conducted by McKinsey and Co., the Boston Consulting Group, Catalyst Research and many other organizations around the globe consistently show that gender and ethnically diverse teams outperform their non-diverse contemporaries. In terms of overall performance, companies with diverse leadership are 45% more likely to experience market share growth ...
AWS and Jefferson Frank work to narrow gender diversity gap through data and hiring tools
The gender gap in technology is slowly closing. Breakdowns of workforce demographics at large technology companies show a slow upward trend: The 22.4% of women in technical roles in 2019 increased to 23.1% in 2020 and is estimated to rise to 25% in 2022. It’s a positive trend, but it is far from gender parity. ...