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AWS Direct Connect joins growing list of HIPAA-eligible services from AWS!

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AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include AWS Direct Connect as a HIPAA Eligible Service. With the addition of Direct Connect, if you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS you can now transfer large amounts of data, including Protected Health Information (PHI), into and out of AWS in a cost-effective manner designed for your security. AWS Direct Connect offers several benefits for customers: it lowers bandwidth costs out of AWS (which is valuable for applications that have bulk data transfer requirements), it offers more consistent network performance over Internet-based connections for applications that require real-time data feeds, and it provides an alternative means to connect to the AWS cloud for customers who may have security or compliance policies that prevent VPN connectivity to the cloud.

Fable: The President Who Paid A Heavy Price

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  A company president once got enthralled by a chip development project which took eight years to get into production. Three years into the project he was at his company directors’ regular Tuesday lunch when the CEO and company co-founder asked him: “When will we recoup our investment?” The president replied: “After I die, maybe.” …

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Hacking Law

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The latest Wikileaks dump shows just how fiendishly clever hackers are, and how almost nothing people say about hacking can be believed. For instance the latest dump of CIA hacking tools show that hackers can leave other hackers’ fingerprints on the sites they’ve hacked. So when we are told by people on the telly that …

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