The Cloud Pod

259: If Only All My Disasters Could Be Managed

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Welcome to episode 259 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan (yes, all 4!) are covering A LOT of information – you’re going to want to sit down for this one. This week’s agenda includes unnecessary Magic Quadrants, SecOps, Dataflux updates, CNAME chain struggles, and an intro into Phi-3 – plus so much more! 

Titles we almost went with this week:
  • GKE Config Sync or the Auto Outage for K8 Feature
  • If only all my disasters could be managed
  • The Cloud Pod builds a Rag Doll
  • Understanding Dataflux has given me reflux
  • Oracle continuing the trend of adding AI to everything even databases
  • A new way to burn your money on the cloud which isn’t even your fault
  • Google Gets a Magic Quadrant Participation Trophy
  • We’re All Winners to Magic Quadrant 
  • Don’t be a giant DNAME 
    • A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
    Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today’s podcast
    Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod 
    General News 

    00:33 Dropbox dropped the ball on security, hemorrhaging customer and third-party info 

    • Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers’ personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities. 
    • The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing, impacted Dropbox Sign, a service that supports e-signatures similar to Docusign. 
    • The threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings. 
    • For a subset of users, the threat actor accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens and multi-factor authentication.  
    • To make things *extra* worse – if you never had an account but received a signed document your email and name has also been exposed. Good times. 
    • Want to read the official announcement? You can find it here. 

      • 03:06 Jonathan- “It’s unfortunate that it was compromised. It was their acquisition, wasn’t it – ‘HelloSign’ that actually had the defect, not their main product at least.”

      05:44 VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow 

      • Last week at recording time Matt mentioned the VMWare Cloud on AWS rumors on twitter that Broadcom was terminating. 
      • Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom wrote a blog post letting you know that VMWare Cloud on AWS is Here today, and here tomorrow. 
      • He says the reports have been false, and contends that the offering would be going away forcing unnecessary concern for their loyal customers who have used the se
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