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Infosec & Google’s Project Zero: Google says try harder
New research by Maddie Stone, a researcher at
Google’s Project Zero security team, suggests hackers have it way too easy
thanks to the business world’s failure to patch zero-day and recurring
vulnerabilities.
According
to Stone, attackers these days don’t really need to come up with new
vulnerabilities to exploit. Although industry leaders including Google itself
are diligent enough in issuing patches to zero-day vulnerabilities, these bug
fixes often fall flat and don’t fully address the issue, leaving the doors open
to future attacks.
Project Zero, whose only focus is to investigate these zero-day flaws, advocates for greater investment and a more proactive approach to security. The key, Stone says, is to let engineers go deeper to identify the root of the problem and implement more meaningful structural changes.
It’s all about the cloud
This week we got a surprise announcement from
a technology titan: Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon. And his
choice of successor is quite revealing of where the industry is headed
next.
Amazon
started as an online retailer, and that’s for what most people know the
company. But it’s not where the money is at. Any tech insider like yourself
will undoubtedly tell the layman that the Seattle born company makes most of
its revenue with its cloud services. It is no surprise then, that Bezos has
chosen Andy Jassy, head of Amazon Web Services, to take the company into the
future.
And Amazon is not alone here. Microsoft is no longer the company that makes Windows. Google is not just a search engine. Cloud has clearly become the winning bet for tech goliaths. And, with only 25-30 percent of business workloads in the cloud. we are just seeing the beginning of it.
Quantum leaps
And speaking of Microsoft and cloud, the Redmond-based company announced this week the availability on preview of Azure Quantum, a public cloud ecosystem that lets users access the quantum capabilities of partners like Honeywell, IonQ and Quantum Circuits.
With this
public preview, Microsoft wants to encourage developers, researchers and
systems integrators to learn how to use the platform and build applications
that could potentially transform a wide range of industries.
The announcement comes the same week Dutch researchers at Radbourd University revealed a new method for assembling a network of atoms that works in a similar way to the synapses in our brains. The breakthrough, the researchers say, is a major step towards the creation of a quantum brain that is able to function and change like a human’s.
