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"In Gartner's mind, everyone's moving away from VPNs; VPNs don't exist anymore. But this is not a ‘rip out an appliance, and then shove something else in' job..."
"The number of IT resources that are available to do manual processing of IT workloads is constrained and sophisticated observability and application security [is becoming] more critical..."
"The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop..."
Atos employs over 105,000 staff; handling tasks as eclectic as running 111 data centres in 43 countries, and building hardware for the French military.
"You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
Incident forces huge hygiene effort, as Cloudflare rotates 5,000 credentials, triages 4,893 systems, reimages and reboots every machine after compromise.
Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"
The attack has been claimed by the prolific LockBit group, which has hit numerous high-profile companies in recent months, often using unpatched Citrix Bleed vulnerabilities.