article thumbnail

Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Microsoft said in a statement that after supporting the operating system for 10 years, the company is moving on. .

Windows 48
article thumbnail

How to Build the Most Effective Information Security Framework

Tenable

The Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit dedicated to promoting sound infosec practices, refers to its Controls and Benchmarks 5 as "the global standard … for securing IT systems and data against the most pervasive attacks." (Combining the practices of ISO 27001 with a tool like Tenable.sc

Security 101
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This means making the hardware supply chain into a commodity if you make PCs, making PCs into commodities if you sell operating systems, and making servers a commodity by promoting serverless function execution if you sell cloud. From the cloud to the network The new paradigm shift is from the cloud to the protocol network.

article thumbnail

How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. D-Link takes the issues of network security and user privacy very seriously.”.

Linux 37
article thumbnail

Azure vs AWS: How to Choose the Cloud Service Provider?

Existek

It’s about the unique opportunity to create an entire network of different business areas located externally while being supported and maintained by a professional service provider. . The new structure enabled the opportunity to meet such customer needs in computing as storage, networking, and services. Networking and content delivery.

Azure 52
article thumbnail

The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Many of these businesses depend on network effects , which means the company that gets to scale first is likely to stay on top. It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. For a company like Airbnb, a company with both strong network effects and a solid path to profitability, blitzscaling is a good strategy.