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GCP – An Offer You Can Refuse: UNC2970 Backdoor Deployment Using Trojanized PDF Reader
Written by: Marco Galli, Diana Ion, Yash Gupta, Adrian Hernandez, Ana Martinez Gomez, Jon Daniels, Christopher Gardner Introduction In June 2024, Mandiant Managed Defense identified a cyber espionage group suspected to have a North Korea nexus, tracked by Mandiant under UNC2970. Later that month, Mandiant discovered additional phishing lures masquerading as an energy company and […]
GCP – 50Hertz helps businesses reduce their carbon emissions with Vertex AI
The energy industry is facing huge, exciting challenges. The transition from fossil fuels to a sustainable energy supply using renewable energies continues to be a complex process, and it won’t just happen by itself. With more than a third of the world’s electricity predicted to come from renewables by 2025, the ongoing shift to sustainability […]
AWS – AWS Private CA now supports SCEP for mobile devices
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) launches General Availability of the Connector for SCEP, which lets you use a managed and secure cloud certificate authority (CA) to enroll mobile devices securely and at scale. Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is a protocol widely adopted by mobile device management (MDM) solutions to obtain digital identity […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports enhanced VPC routing warehouses in zero-ETL integration
Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications and break down data silos in your organization, making it simpler to analyze data from different operational databases. Amazon Redshift zero-ETL integrations now support Redshift clusters and Serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). When you use Amazon Redshift enhanced VPC routing, Amazon Redshift […]
AWS – Announcing general availability (GA) of Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Amazon Redshift. Amazon Q generative SQL simplifies query authoring and increases productivity by allowing you to express queries in natural language and receive SQL code recommendations. Furthermore, it enables you to get insights […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Optimized Reads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Optimized Reads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, a new price-performance capability available on new r6gd and r6id instances that delivers up to 8x improved query latency and up to 30% cost savings compared to instances without it, for applications with large datasets that exceed the memory capacity of a […]
GCP – From keywords to relationships: Reveal deeper insights with full-text search and Spanner Graph
In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations grapple with the challenge of extracting valuable insights from rapidly expanding volumes of information. Graph databases excel at modeling complex relationships, while full-text search efficiently retrieves pertinent information from unstructured data. However, maintaining separate systems for these capabilities can lead to operational overhead and delayed insights. Spanner Graph offers a […]
GCP – Accelerate Ray in production with new Ray Operator on GKE
The AI field is constantly evolving. With recent advancements in generative AI in particular, models are larger and more complex, pushing organizations to distribute tasks efficiently across more machines. One powerful approach is to run ray.io, an open-source framework for distributed AI/ML workloads, on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), our managed container orchestration service. To make […]
GCP – Chat with your business data – Conversational Analytics comes to Gemini in Looker
Generative AI has invigorated the promise of self-service analytics, which, when combined with enterprise-scale security and governance, and backed by trusted metrics, can prevent data chaos and empower you to quickly understand and act on your data insights. Looker is playing a key role in this data revolution, evolving business intelligence (BI) for the AI […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high value of cross-industry communication
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today I’m taking a look at how our initiatives to drive cybersecurity collaboration across industries, regulators and governments, IT consortia, and researchers and universities can help make everyone safer online. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the […]