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A "gaping hole" in the way enterprises govern the use of one of IT's least sexy but most used access control and encryption protocols is leaving many sensitive database servers and other network ...

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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform exposed the database keys of 3,300 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, that had used a data-science feature available on the platform since 2019, cloud ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...