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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Alexey Dulin / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Hackers and researchers and cybersecurity, oh my! Get better, better : Roon invites you to skip Google and WebMD, giving patients freshly sourced info on their conditions , reports Andrew. “Subscriptions are not going anywhere,” says Manchanda.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. “Alternatives like management consulting and design agencies are expensive and inaccessible to the vast majority of business professionals.”

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

The follow-on Apple Deployment and Management course focuses on configuring, managing, and securing Apple products using mobile device management (MDM). These certifications cover a handful of vital IT topics, such as networking concepts, security fundamentals, IT fundamentals, and IT support.

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The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure

Stacks on Stacks

For those outside the cybersecurity industry, system hardening can be defined as “securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability”. In our case, it involved checking our system against a set of rules like this one for Windows VMs and this one for Linux. After we got our application running, something happened.

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The power of asking questions

Honeycomb

I swing wildly on the engineer/manager chandelier pendulum and part of my work involves architecting high-scale systems that can handle spiky loads. Do we have to stress about operating systems and security patches and maintenance with EC2 servers if we want the best performance, or are serverless containers fast enough?

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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Reflecting on the Cybersecurity Threats from 2019

Tenable

Tenable’s Security Response Team reviews the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2019. With 2019 coming to an end, the Tenable Security Response Team reflects on the vulnerabilities and threats that had a major impact over the last year. Between BlueKeep and DejaBlue, all supported versions of Windows were affected.

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Learn Google Cloud by Doing with New Google Cloud Training!

Linux Academy

No additional costs, compliance, downloads, or management is needed, everything is securely located on Linux Academy. Using Startup Scripts on Google Compute Engine. Managing Google Cloud SQL Instances. Working with Snapshots on Google Compute Engine. Working with Compute Engine Windows.