Beyond Budgeting

A look at the concept of beyond budgeting and how it relates to FinOps.

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Cybersecurity Training for Boards

From data breaches to ransomware attacks, the ever-growing landscape of cybersecurity threats has made it clear that organizations can no longer afford to overlook the importance of board-level expertise in this digital age.

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Keeping Secure: QLDB, IAM and you

As usual with AWS provided policies, they can be a good starting point for learning a service, but we can certainly do better when it comes to putting them into production. In Part 1, I discussed the built-in options AWS provides for securing QLDB. Today I’ll show you the building blocks available for IAM and sketch out some more useful real-world policies.

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Keeping Secure: QLDB Basics

Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is Amazon Web Service’s commercial Ledger Database. Fundamentally a document storage database, it differentiates itself from other cloud-based document databases by integrating blockchain technology to offer an immutable transaction history and non-repudiation in the form of Merkle tree hash verification. It has other unique qualities, such as the ability to query it natively as if it were a relational database with the PartiQL language, the ability to stream its transaction records to other databases and services with Kinesis, and more.

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