Theme park operator Six Flags Great America has agreed to pay $36m to settle a class-action lawsuit concerning the gathering and collection of its customers’ biometric data. Filed in Lake County, Illinois, the lawsuit alleges that the use of finger-scanning equipment used at Six Flags entry gates violated the Prairie State’s Biometric Privacy Act. The act regulates how companies collect and use an individual’s retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry. Under the law, which was passed…

VMware Cloud on AWS has proven its ability to simplify operations and unblock customer success around the world. One of the more critical technologies enabling this shift has been our Multi-AZ resiliency powered by Stretched Clusters. Today we’re excited to share a new entry into this space. Entry scale Stretched Clusters allow a Multi-AZ deployment to be created with as few as 4-Hosts! Why Stretched Clusters? When migrating from a traditional data center environment to…

This post is the fifth in a series on Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud Platform. This post walks through the configuration of HCX with Terraform to facilitate the migration of VMs. Now that we have an SDDC running in Google Cloud VMware Engine, it is time to migrate some workloads into the cloud! VMware HCX will be the tool I use to migrate Virtual Machines to Google Cloud VMware Engine. If you recall from…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced that it has been recognized as one of The Washington Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C. area based on ratings from employees for the third year in a row. “Our employees are at the center of everything we do. Being recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post is very exciting because it’s based on employee feedback,” said Bridgett Paradise, chief people officer, Tenable….

Close to 100 electronic devices have been lost by Parliamentary staffers in the UK during the last two years, raising fears that sensitive public data has fallen into the hands of malicious actors. The official data obtained by Parliament Street think tank under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation revealed that a total of 96 laptops, tablet computers and other electronic gadgets were reported missing by Parliamentary staffers in the calendar years of 2019 and 2020. The majority of…

This is part two in a multi-part series introducing a framework for assessing multi-cloud use maturity.  A comprehensive eBook on the framework can be found here.  At the end of the blog, you’ll find a link to all other blogs in the series. Competency area #1:  Cloud adoption paths In assessing the maturity of an organization in this area, the organization should consider how broadly the practices below are being adopted across the entire organization. …

Security experts have warned online shoppers to beware of scam emails and texts over the next couple of days as the Amazon Prime Day e-commerce bonanza gets underway. The 48-hour sales event for Prime subscribers is said to be an even bigger money-maker for Amazon than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. However, where there is money and consumers, cyber-criminals are usually not far away, warned Charles Brook, a threat intelligence researcher at Tessian. “The…