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GCP – How PicnicHealth is revolutionizing healthcare with Google Workspace and Google Cloud
In the fragmented world of U.S. healthcare, patients often have to wait in line or on hold, navigate multiple patient portals, and fill out numerous request forms—all in pursuit of their own medical history. Healthcare technology startup PicnicHealth is on a mission to put control back with the patient, where it belongs. PicnicHealth’s growth, from […]
GCP – How to introduce more empathy into security operations
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Siemplify on April 29, 2021. With cybersecurity moving from backroom to boardroom, and the societal imperative that workplace cultures renounce toxicity for more sensitivity and tolerance, there is a rapidly-growing call for empathy to pervade the infosec function, from the CISO all the way down. Within security […]
GCP – New Google Cloud Marketplace Private Offers features to help our partners grow
As we shared at the beginning of the year, we are making significant investments in Google Cloud Marketplace to accelerate growth for our customers and partners. This includes new technical capabilities that provide the purchasing flexibility and choice our enterprise customers need when buying software from Google Cloud partners through Marketplace. Private Offers are now […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Transfer Family support for Applicability Statement 2 (AS2)
AWS Transfer Family now supports the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) protocol, complementing existing protocol support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP. Customers across verticals such as healthcare and life sciences, retail, financial services, and insurance that rely on AS2 for exchanging business-critical data can now use AWS Transfer Family’s highly available, scalable, and globally available AS2 endpoints […]
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now AWS IAM Identity Center. It is where you create, or connect, your workforce users once and centrally manage their access to multiple AWS accounts and applications. You can create user identities directly in IAM Identity Center, or you can connect your existing identity source, including Microsoft Active Directory […]
AWS – AWS Config conformance packs now provide scores to help you track resource compliance
AWS Config now supports compliance scores as an enhancement to conformance packs. A compliance score is a percentage-based score that helps you quickly discern the level to which your resources are compliant for a set of requirements that are captured within the scope of a conformance pack. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to help streamline vendor risk assessments (Preview)
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available through AWS Marketplace. A unified web-based dashboard gives governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams access to security and compliance information, such as data privacy and residency, application security, and access control. The […]
AWS – Amazon Macie introduces new capability to securely review and validate sensitive data found in an Amazon S3 object
We are pleased to announce a new capability in Amazon Macie that allows for one-click, temporary retrieval of up to 10 examples of sensitive data found in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) by Amazon Macie. This new capability enables you to more easily view and understand which contents of an S3 objects were identified […]
AWS – Malware protection now a feature of Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection is now available, in Amazon GuardDuty, to help detect malicious files residing on an instance or container workload running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) without deploying security software or agents. Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection adds file scanning for workloads utilizing Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to detect malware […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Wickr (Preview)
AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted enterprise communication service that allows secure collaboration across messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, and screen sharing. The service is now in preview. AWS Wickr helps organizations address evolving threats and regulations by combining security and administrative features designed to safeguard sensitive communications, enforce information governance policies, and […]