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Business Wire – “…With 206 sessions and 196 speakers, the conference provided an opportunity for beginners and experts to learn from many of the largest organizations in the world, and hear from the people solving some of the biggest database challenges. Percona Live ONLINE 2021 was our biggest and best conference yet,” said Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona. “We are proud to provide a platform to many of open source’s foremost database experts, covering a wide range of projects, technologies, and market issues. At this year’s conference, there was much discussion around how companies can manage and optimize the increasing volumes of data they generate. Companies are actively looking at how they can harness this data and are focused on having the right database technologies and tools in place. Many businesses are turning to open source database software to achieve this, as it allows them to reduce costs and avoid vendor lock-in.” Speakers from leading companies such as Groupon, HubSpot, LinkedIn, PayPal, Shopify, and Uber discussed their experiences using leading open source database technologies including MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Percona software. One of the main themes was how to efficiently scale to handle increasing numbers of users and volumes of data, while maintaining a highly performant database that is always on, and always available…”
How to make your offline self harder to find online
The Verge: “ are two key concepts in information security: threat model and attack surface. “Threat model” is another way of asking, “Who’s out to get you?” If your threat model includes the curiosity of nation-state intelligence services, you have many more things to worry about than J. Random User. It’s more likely that voicing a contrary opinion on social media might make you yet another unwitting main character of Twitter, or that a stray mention by someone else could bring you to the attention of the internet’s malcontents. “Attack surface,” meanwhile, describes a target’s vulnerable access points that an attacker will seek to exploit. When it comes to the internet, it’s nearly impossible to collapse your attack surface to zero — you’ll never achieve that without going into witness protection. Our goal in this article is to help you condense your attack surface as much as possible. Trying to scrub your offline coordinates from the online world can feel like counting cicadas: you can start, but you will never finish
Admittedly, trying to scrub your offline coordinates from the online world can feel like counting cicadas during the every-17-years emergence of those sex-starved insects: you can start, but you will never finish. But that doesn’t mean that giving up is the right answer. With some effort, you can make data points like your street address, phone number, and birthday less visible online — and therefore less easily available for harassment or identity theft. This exercise will also renew your awareness — as unpleasant as the consequences might be — of just how much data about you sloshes around the web. And it may get you to think anew about how you want to craft the picture that emerges of you online in a stranger’s search…”