General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most of us remember the months and weeks leading up to the deadline. We did whatever needed to be done to achieve compliance. Now it seems like a distant memory. And the pressure is mostly off. But in other ways, it was just the beginning. As you continue creating your day-to-day compliance strategy, you might find that the tactics that got you to the finish line were more short-term solutions that won’t necessarily stand long-term.

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Kenny Kon, an SRE Director at Sabre. Kenny shares about how they have been able to successfully adopt Google’s SRE framework by leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. As a leader in the travel industry, Sabre Corporation is driving innovation in the global travel industry and developing solutions that help airlines, hotels, and travel agencies transform the traveler experience and satisfy the ever-evolving needs of its customers.

Let’s say you are writing a shell script for a systems housekeeping task. Perhaps the script is uploading backups to a remote server, or it is cleaning up old data, or it is making a measurement and submitting it to a somebody else’s HTTP API. What is the least cumbersome way for the script to contact you in case of problems? Let’s say you want to be contacted via email – how to make it work?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore the rise of DaaS services across organizations, and the role it could play in the hybrid workplace of tomorrow. When we last wrote about the era of Everything as a service (XaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS) was still a relatively niche concept.

Millions of Americans are “unbanked” or “underbanked,” meaning they have no bank account or cannot access their bank’s full range of financial services to build credit and plan for the future. Before the pandemic, the Federal Reserve estimated 22% of adults, or around 60 million people, fell into this category. The pandemic has undoubtedly increased these numbers.

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) is a collection of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools developed by Google. Today, millions of teams use Google Workspace (e.g., Gmail, Drive, Hangouts) to streamline their workflows. Monitoring Google Workspace activity is an essential part of security monitoring and audits, especially if these applications have become tightly integrated with your organization’s data.

Session Replay enables you to replay in a video-like format how users interact with your website to help you understand behavioral patterns and save time troubleshooting. Visibility into user sessions, however, can risk exposing sensitive data and raise privacy concerns. For example, a user session may include typing in a credit card or social security number into an input field.

The manufacturing industry is in a state of flux, juggling skills gaps and supply chain issues at a time it needs to prepare for Industry 4.0 and smart factories. As the industry adopts digital technology, strengthening cybersecurity becomes a priority. The industry also faces pressure to advance sustainability. To weather the storm of this dynamic environment and come out stronger on the other side requires a shift in the way manufacturing companies operate.

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus and re-energise. Here are a few that have given us the boost we needed to get back on track.

Without a doubt, cloud technology has saved numerous organizations from disruption. According to a report published by Allied Market Research, In 2019, the global cloud services market was valued at $325,689 million and is expected to reach $1,620,597 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 15.8%. The pandemic has amplified the growth of the cloud service market.