In March 2020, we introduced Amazon Detective, a fully managed service that makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective continuously extracts temporal events such as login attempts, API calls, and network traffic from Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)…
Month: July 2022
New for Amazon GuardDuty – Malware Detection for Amazon EBS Volumes
With Amazon GuardDuty, you can monitor your AWS accounts and workloads to detect malicious activity. Today, we are adding to GuardDuty the capability to detect malware. Malware is malicious software that is used to compromise workloads, repurpose resources, or gain unauthorized access to data. When you have GuardDuty Malware Protection enabled, a malware scan is…
SpongeBob comes to Minecraft
Have you always wanted to wander around Bikini Bottom, dropping in at the Krusty Krab and maybe even taking one of the boats at Mrs. Puff’s Boating School out for a spin? Now you can, thanks to new SpongeBob downloadable content now available for Minecraft. “In this immersive DLC, you’ll dive into the world of…
Meta Asks Oversight Board to Advise on COVID-19 Misinformation Policies
Meta is asking the Oversight Board for advice on whether measures to address dangerous COVID-19 misinformation, introduced in extraordinary circumstances at the onset of the pandemic, should remain in place as many, though not all, countries around the world seek to return to more normal life. Misinformation related to COVID-19 has presented unique risks to…
Expanding Our Third-Party Fact Checking Program in India
Today, we are expanding our third-party fact-checking program in India to include NewsMeter, a fact checker primarily focused on the southern states in the country. The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information, enhancing our fact-checking capabilities in regional Indian languages including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. Globally, we work with more…
Revealing the Winners of Our First-Ever Global Spark AR Challenge in the Middle East
We’re revealing the 20 winners of the Middle East and North Africa’s first-ever Spark AR challenge, in collaboration with the UAE National Program for Coders, the Museum of the Future and Lenslist. Emirates Airline and Accenture served as the challenge’s strategic partners. During the three-week competition, creators worldwide submitted more than 400 augmented reality (AR)…
Putting People First: Protecting Privacy and Integrity
At Meta, we often talk about how we use data to maintain and improve the integrity of our technologies. To help explain what we mean by that, we’ve published a new white paper that explains some of the ways we employ user data to create a positive experience across our technologies and the privacy considerations…
From resilience to digital perseverance: How organizations are using digital technology to turn the corner in unprecedented times
Photo credit: Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Our annual partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, just concluded. The conversations I had with Microsoft’s partner community echo those I have had recently with leaders from both established organizations and earlier-stage enterprises. Leaders across industries share a commitment to innovation as the only path forward through uncertainty in global markets, especially…
Amazon Prime Day 2022 – AWS for the Win!
As part of my annual tradition to tell you about how AWS makes Prime Day possible, I am happy to be able to share some chart-topping metrics (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 posts for a look back). My purchases this year included a first aid kit, some wood brown filament for…
Honor customer data use consent with unified profiles in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
Data protection and privacy regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States, give individuals the right to govern how an organization uses their personal data. These regulations allow people to opt in or out of having their personal data…