This Week I Learned - Week #31 2019
This Week I Learned -
* The Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (https://aka.ms/MCRA) describes Microsoft’s cybersecurity capabilities and how they integrate with existing security architectures and capabilities.
* Unlike RBAC, Azure Policy is a default allow and explicit deny system.
* Constrained vCPU capable VM sizes allow customer workloads like like SQL Server or Oracle to use the same memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth while optimizing their software licensing cost.
* Windows and Oracle Linux are the only operating systems that are supported by Oracle and SAP on Azure. The widely used SLES and RHEL Linux distributions aren't supported for deploying Oracle components in Azure.
* Amazon launched the first service Amazon S3 on Mar. 14, 2006
* Capital One was ensnared in one of the largest-ever hacks of a big financial institution - the breach included 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, culled from tens of millions of credit card applications submitted from 2005 to early 2019. The bank said the hack will cost the company $100 million to $150 million in the near term. Capital One has been a leading advocate in the banking world for cloud services. 33-year-old Paige A. Thompson, who is accused of breaking through a misconfigured Capital One firewall was a former AWS employee who last worked at Amazon in 2016. Ms. Thompson is accused of breaking through a Capital One firewall to access customer data that the bank had stored on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service. The hack raises questions about how companies handle and store historical data, like credit card applications going back more than a decade.
* Amazon sells more than half of the books in the U.S., but takes a hands-off approach in its bookstore, never checking for authenticity or quality - NY Times
* “Get Big Fast” is ingrained in Amazon’s DNA...the culture (maybe by design) undervalues a supportive environment and favors those who can navigate ambiguity independently... ‘If you’re not embarrassed about v1, you’ve waited too long’
* Tips on how to write like an Amazonian that can also be useful to others:
* Researchers at University of Missouri School of Medicine, compared facial features in 64 boys with autism with faces of 41 typically developing boys, all 8-12 years old, with a 3-D camera system. After mapping out 17 points on faces, the researchers found significant differences between the two groups. One out of every 110 children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). People with an ASD may experience difficulties with social interaction, communication, intelligence, or behavior.
* The 23 colleges of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have 13,604 seats
* Two-thirds of the United States is expected to bake under what could be record high temperatures. Paris is the latest to break record with 42.6C in last week's Europe heatwave
* Facial progression based on age from a standard photograph of a 6-year-old boy
* The Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (https://aka.ms/MCRA) describes Microsoft’s cybersecurity capabilities and how they integrate with existing security architectures and capabilities.
* Unlike RBAC, Azure Policy is a default allow and explicit deny system.
* Constrained vCPU capable VM sizes allow customer workloads like like SQL Server or Oracle to use the same memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth while optimizing their software licensing cost.
* Windows and Oracle Linux are the only operating systems that are supported by Oracle and SAP on Azure. The widely used SLES and RHEL Linux distributions aren't supported for deploying Oracle components in Azure.
* Amazon launched the first service Amazon S3 on Mar. 14, 2006
* Capital One was ensnared in one of the largest-ever hacks of a big financial institution - the breach included 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, culled from tens of millions of credit card applications submitted from 2005 to early 2019. The bank said the hack will cost the company $100 million to $150 million in the near term. Capital One has been a leading advocate in the banking world for cloud services. 33-year-old Paige A. Thompson, who is accused of breaking through a misconfigured Capital One firewall was a former AWS employee who last worked at Amazon in 2016. Ms. Thompson is accused of breaking through a Capital One firewall to access customer data that the bank had stored on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service. The hack raises questions about how companies handle and store historical data, like credit card applications going back more than a decade.
* Amazon sells more than half of the books in the U.S., but takes a hands-off approach in its bookstore, never checking for authenticity or quality - NY Times
* “Get Big Fast” is ingrained in Amazon’s DNA...the culture (maybe by design) undervalues a supportive environment and favors those who can navigate ambiguity independently... ‘If you’re not embarrassed about v1, you’ve waited too long’
* Tips on how to write like an Amazonian that can also be useful to others:
* The 23 colleges of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have 13,604 seats
* Two-thirds of the United States is expected to bake under what could be record high temperatures. Paris is the latest to break record with 42.6C in last week's Europe heatwave
* Facial progression based on age from a standard photograph of a 6-year-old boy
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