Submitted by liltate123 in Tech

Jason Deign explains why new kinds of cyber defense are needed for companies that are reaching to the cloud for vital applications.

It is not often that IT gets to steal a lead on cyber threats. Most often, hackers rule the game. New threats turn up and new shields are put in place to block them. But when it comes to IT's latest trick, the shields are being put in place before the threat has become a real danger.

The latest trick is the cloud. Or, to be more precise, how firms are now using the cloud to host vital data at lower cost than ever before. Putting critical data in the cloud was risky before, because you could never be sure if your wide area network (WAN) connectivity would hold up.

In recent years, though, things have changed. Software-defined networks now make sure connectivity to any branch can perform to the same standard as a traditional WAN.

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polaris wrote

I can't even read the article without running proprietary scripts. I suppose that's also for "security"

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polaris wrote

Upon further investigation, the link posted was a small exert from another website. This website was Cisco Newsroom. This person posted a literal advertisement. Here is a sanitized version of the "article" (advertisement): https://archive.is/K7kuB

Their previous posting was on the same subject, though from an "educational" website (Greycourse): https://archive.is/Syrm5

The thing that confused me is why these would be posted here from an account only four days old (three at the time this original post was made). Well, I think I may have found the answer. This appears to be a person who "generates traffic" for money, as evidenced by this page: https://archive.is/QiR4Y

I would usually write the username being the same up to chance, but given the oddity of the situation, rarity of the username, and the fact that all of these links were using the exact same obscure aggregate (if you can call it that...) it seems more and more plausible. The first one even used a URL shorter to obscure the fact it lead to the same damn website.

I hope you're happy with your work, but try to do a better job next time. You went to a forum of radical anarchists who hate everything in both of these articles. Just because there are people who like "tech" in this forum doesn't mean they like corporate bullshit. In fact, most of them specifically HATE corporate bullshit. Put your shitty advertisements somewhere else, please. Perhaps you could even write a nice piece of software and share it with the world. Notabug is a lovely code hosting service ;)

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