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Breathe New Life into Your Devices: Prepare for Windows 7 End of Life

Datavail

Phishing scams alone caused over $26 million in losses between 2016 and 2019. There’s no doubt that many are planning to target Windows 7 systems more aggressively to take advantage of their vulnerability. If you’re in an industry that requires compliance with standards and regulations, you’re facing an even larger problem.

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Bastion Host: What Is It and Do You Really Need It?

Mentormate

That takes significant effort from a system administration perspective. LTS +, macOS Mojave/Catalina (in shortlisted AWS Regions), Windows 2012+ (Windows Server 2016 Nano is not supported). At MentorMate, we help our clients achieve the high security and compliance requirements. A Bastion-less Security Solution.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Software is packaged in containers, and the containers themselves run as virtual Linux instances, but developers don’t need to know how to find and kill out-of-control processes, do a backup, install device drivers, or perform any of the other tasks that are the core of system administration. Finally, compliance is down 27%.

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