Cloud Computing

Introducing custom rules in Workload Manager: Evaluate workloads against customized best practices

Are you a cloud architect or IT admin tasked with ensuring deployments are following best practices and generating configuration validation reports? The struggle of adopting best practices is real. And not just the first time: ensuring that a config doesn’t drift from org-wide best practices over time is notoriously difficult.     Workload Manager provides a rule-based […]

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Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are unlocking new possibilities for the way we work and accelerating innovation in science, technology, and beyond. In cybersecurity, AI is poised to transform digital defense, empowering defenders and enhancing our collective security. Large language models (LLMs) open new possibilities for defenders, from sifting through complex telemetry to secure

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Outbrain: Taking control of extension security with Chrome Enterprise

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Travis Naraine, IT Infrastructure Engineer, and Harel Shaked, Director of IT Services and Support, both for Outbrain, a leading technology platform that drives business results by engaging people across the open internet. Outbrain adopted Chrome Enterprise and integrations from Spin.AI to create policies for secure app and extension use

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How Nielsen uses serverless concepts on Amazon EKS for big data processing with Spark workloads

Nielsen Marketing Cloud, a leading ad tech company, processes in one of their pipelines 25 TB of data and 30 billion events daily. As their data volumes grew, so did the challenges of scaling their Apache Spark workloads efficiently. Nielsen’s team faced a scenario in which, as they scaled up their cluster by adding more

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ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator

Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as “ScatterBrain,” facilitating attacks against various entities across Europe and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. ScatterBrain appears to be

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“Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries”

Ben and Ryan are joined by RJ Tuit, Head of UI Platform and Client Architect at ClickUp, formerly an engineering director at Microsoft. They talk about ClickUp’s vision for a comprehensive productivity platform, the complexities of measuring productivity and UX in software development, how to navigate the hype around AI, and more. Plus: What it

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A new flexible, simplified, and more secure way to configure GKE cluster connectivity

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides users with a lot of options when it comes to configuring their cluster networks. But with today’s highly dynamic environments, GKE platform operators tell us that they want more flexibility when it comes to changing up their configurations. To help, today we are excited to announce a set of features

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Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud

More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such

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