Understanding GCP Application Services

PaaS solutions were some of the first services offered by cloud providers. These solutions came early since they provide a tremendous value of allowing a developer to deploy their code without having to request or provision infrastructure, which may take days or weeks. GCP has a number of such PaaS solutions that allow you to deploy your application without the complexity of provisioning and managing infrastructure. These solutions fall into two families: serverless applications and Linux containers.

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Chart Your Path with a Cisco Certification Tracks Map

Global Knowledge’s Cisco Career Certification Tracks guide, which was featured at Cisco Live 2017, provides a clear illustration of all the steps needed to achieve the Cisco certification of your choice. All you have to do is pick your current or desired job role, then follow the color-coded tracks to the corresponding credentials.

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DoS, DDos and DeOS… Oh My!!

In the security industry, we classify our security infrastructure in a variety of ways. One important classification method is called the “CIA Triad,” which refers to three security objectives defined by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). These three objectives are Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. The goal of any information security team is to protect against these three objectives, and the goal of an attacker is to compromise one or more of these objectives.

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