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AWS Teams up with the Organization of American States on Cybersecurity

Spanish, French, and Portuguese to follow As part of Cybersecurity Awareness month, we announced a joint agreement to advance cybersecurity education efforts with the Organization of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional organization that brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum in […]

Expanding cybersecurity education with the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech

AWS has joined the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech to support the Cyber Range initiative with scalable cloud infrastructure and to collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts, enabling the Cyber Range with both content and a closed network for hands-on exercises, competitions, and other simulations. “We are thrilled to be a part of this important […]

Cybersecurity Chat: A Conversation with DHS, CIA, & Congressman Connolly

How do we accelerate progress in federal IT and maintain the velocity that we currently have? That was the main question asked during a lively conversation at the recent FedTalks in Washington, D.C. Just over a month after the White House appointed its first U.S. chief information security officer (CISO), Greg Touhill, cybersecurity took center […]

Ransomware Fightback Takes to the Cloud

Guest post by Raj Samani, EMEA CTO Intel Security (@Raj_Samani) “How many visitors do you expect to access the No More Ransom Portal?” This was the simple question asked prior to this law enforcement (Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Dutch Police) and private industry (Kaspersky Lab, Intel Security) portal going live, which I didn’t have a […]