GSA Technology Council

What is a book company doing in the Cloud Computing business? What is Cloud Computing anyway? Amazon has been in the hosting and data center management business for many years and it’s experience with running its retail business maps directly into how to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). At the June Learning Lunch, Kevin Kelly of Amazon Web Services told us how Amazon is now exposing this flexible infrastructure for customers to use for creating scalable, available, durable, secure and highly reliable applications in the Cloud.

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At the April Learning Lunch of the GSA Technology Council, IBM’s Dan Gravelle demonstrated how hackers breach web sites. He demonstrated the vulnerabilities of websites that have been left to default passwords and conditions and demonstrated ways for testing just how open to attack your company website might be.

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GSATC-TV - September 4, 2008 from Phil Yanov on Vimeo.

I just came back from WYFF-TV where I recorded a segment on the new Paypal Security Key. The key is a small device you can get from Paypal that creates a three factor authentication for your account, greatly enhancing the security of your Paypal and Ebay accounts. It’s cheap, easy, and (we hope) an effective deterrent against fraud.

If you’d like to watch the segment on the air, be sure to check out the WYFF-TV 6 PM news tonight.

Learn more about the PayPal Security Key on their website.