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Thales' platform to simplify security, compliance and secure cloud migration

Discover, protect and control: these the foundation of Thales’ CipherTrust Data Security Platform, which enables data discovery, data protection and granular access control, ensuring centralized key management by Alberto Falchi published on 25 November 2020 , at 12: 11 in the Security channel Thales The regulations on the management of sensitive data are pushing more… Read more

Aws re: Invent: new AWS Nitro Enclaves and AWS Network Firewall security services unveiled

AWS enhances cybersecurity with new tools to protect information in the cloud: AWS Nitro Enclaves and AWS Network Firewall. Solutions from partners McAfee and Tessian di Alberto Falchi have also been integrated on AWS published 24 November 2020 , at 08 : 41 in the Security channel AWS McAfee The AWS cloud has now become… Read more

Database system: A hole in IBM Db2 endangers Linux, Unix and Windows

By successfully exploiting a security gap, attackers could attack systems with the IBM Db2 database system with malicious code. Admins should install the secured versions as soon as possible. The vulnerability (CVE – 2020 – 4701) is with the threat level ” high ” Mistake. In a warning message, IBM writes that the versions for… Read more

“Vienna Calling”: WeAreDevelopers Live Week from November 30th to December 4th

The third edition of WeAreDevelopers Live Week will take place next week. This time it runs with the nickname “Vienna Calling”, which is due to the fact that the WeAreDevelopers conference, which was actually planned for Vienna, would have taken place around this time. From 30. From November 1st to December 4th there will be… Read more

heise + | Secure Shell for beginners: administer via SSH computer in the network

Secure Shell for beginners: administer via SSH computer in the network Short SSH ssh customer How SSH works First steps manage key SSH keys instead of passwords Copy data and files Reduce traffic SSH, the “Secure Shell”, is a cryptographic network protocol for the encrypted and thus tamper-proof and tap-proof transmission of data over insecure… Read more

Market Researchers Make Predictions: DDR5, GDDR6, GDDR6X, LPDDR5, LPDDR5X Examined

Home News (Image credit: SK Hynix) Adoption of any new technology by the market takes time. Earlier this year JEDEC published the final DDR5 specification, which marked the start of an industry-wide journey towards transition to the new memory standard. But this journey is going to take several years, according to analysts from TrendForce. While the… Read more

Windows turns 35: a visual history

Photo by Deborah Feingold/Getty Images From Windows 1.0 to Windows 10 The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While… Read more

Electronic patient record: data protection through surveillance?

During a discussion on patient files at the virtual medical fair Medica, Thomas Ballast, deputy chairman of the Techniker Krankenkasse, spoke of an “unfortunate controversy” with the federal data protection officer Ulrich Kelber. Data sovereignty According to Kelber, the must be by January 1st 2021 incoming electronic patient files (ePA 1.1) of the statutory health… Read more

Application performance monitoring: IBM takes over Instana

IBM apparently wants to take over Instana, a 2015 founded company specializing in performance monitoring with roots in Germany. Instana, with its headquarters in Chicago and a development center based in this country, sells an APM platform (Application Performance Monitoring). Financial details of the proposed acquisition were not disclosed and the transaction is subject to… Read more

E-prescription: RISE safeguards identities

The Austrian Research Industrial Systems Engineering (RISE) has received the contract from the project company Gematik as an identity verification service for the e-prescription. When verifying the identity of doctors, hospitals and pharmacists, RISE relies on the OpenID standard, which is based on OAuth 2.0, in accordance with Gematik’s requirements. It was previously known that… Read more

Internet standards: Huawei is running for the IETF chairmanship

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is looking for a new chairman to direct the work of the standards organization 2021. Surprisingly, two representatives of the Chinese research company Futurewei are now applying for the spot – Futurewei is a subsidiary of the network supplier Huawei. That is already spicy because Huawei is promoting a… Read more

Gaia-X: Big US hyperscalers want to get involved in the EU cloud

Gaia-X should become an interoperable European alternative to cloud services from IT giants such as Amazon, Alibaba, Google or Microsoft. But most of the Americans in particular immediately expressed interest in participating and are now all on board at least as partners and members of technical working groups. At the two-day digital “Gaia-X Summit”, all… Read more

Google’s latest AI tool turns your MS Paint doodles into freakish monsters

To quote Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is “more profound than fire or electricity.” To back up this claim with incontrovertible evidence: here’s an AI tool made by Google researchers that turns doodles into weird monsters. What could be more profound? It’s certainly fun, anyway. The tool is called Chimera Painter and uses machine learning… Read more

IBM is to take over the central specialist service for the e-prescription

IBM is to operate the specialist service that stores the electronic prescriptions prescribed by the doctor on the server in encrypted form until they are redeemed by a pharmacy. This specialist service can then download the prescriptions into the insured person’s prescription app and into the pharmacy’s administration systems. The e-prescription is to be introduced… Read more

Federal data protection agency: Open warning about electronic patient files

After a statement on the Patient Data Protection Act in September, in which the Federal Data Protection Commissioner expressed concerns about the electronic patient record (EPR), he has now sent a letter with an open warning about the planned introduction of the EPR. This is to start from January 1st 2021 the 44 millions of… Read more