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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO

Another news report dated 2016 shows Jain as the Founder and CEO of AiNET, which “designs, constructs, operates, and supports Internet data centers, optical fiber networks, and easy-to-understand cloud solutions. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta.

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Smallstep takes big step toward authenticating machine-to-machine communications

TechCrunch

The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place? The company launched in 2016 and launched their first open source product a couple of years ago. “Fundamentally, identity in distributed systems is an unsolved problem.

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To protect a political campaign, re-read the Mueller Report

The Parallax

First, Tetelman says, campaigns should set up two-factor authentication on all their accounts. Second, Tetelman recommends that campaigns invest in end-point monitoring , which means keeping an eye on devices connected to the campaign’s network. Third, he says campaigns have to adopt the practice of “ least privilege.”

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Is ad fraud a cybersecurity problem?

The Parallax

Any company that relies on programmatic advertising networks, which automatically buy and sell ads, is at risk, unless the network is a protected advertising ecosystem, Dan Lowden, the chief marketing officer of bot network and ad fraud prevention company White Ops, said in an email. Defense Mechanisms.

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How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider

TechCrunch

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. So he built a prototype of a passwordless authentication system where users would fill out their information once and would never need to do so again.

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The 10 top network outages of 2021

Kentik

Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021. In early June, content delivery network Fastly experienced a major outage because of a faulty configuration push causing thousands of high-profile websites to become unreachable. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021.

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Fraud prevention platform Sift raises $50M at over $1B valuation, eyes acquisitions

TechCrunch

The company has over several hundred customers, including Twitter, Airbnb, Twilio, DoorDash, Wayfair and McDonald’s, as well a global data network of 70 billion events per month. Last year, the San Francisco-based company assessed risk on more than $250 billion in transactions, double from what it did in 2019. Image Credits: Sift.