Historically, backup and recovery has been a job relegated to a junior person on the team. It’s the kind of grungy work that all companies know they should do, but no one wants to own it. As such, many companies have a poor backup and recovery posture and aren’t even sure they can recover from a disaster. Additionally, in recent years, homegrown backup systems have been the target of more and more ransomware and cyber attacks.
Attackers target the backups, either deleting them completely and then attacking other parts of the system or steal the backups, break the encryption, and now have access to tons of company data.
W. Curtis Preston has been working in backup and disaster recovery for nearly 30 years and has written five books on the subject. He joins the show to discuss backup and recovery missteps, best practices, and how Druva, the SaaS-based backup and recovery platform helps businesses offload backup responsibility.
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AWS Nitro Enclaves is a service provided by AWS that enables customers to create isolated compute environments within their EC2 instances. Arvind Rague, Principal Specialist in EC2 and Confidential Computing at AWS, joins the show to explain confidential computing, AWS Nitro Enclaves, and the use cases this technology unlocks.
In this episode, Manish Ahluwalia, the field CTO of Skyflow, discusses the technical aspects of data residency and the usage of a data privacy vault. He explains the concept of data residency and data localization.
Liz Acosta, Developer Advocate at Skyflow, joins the show to explain secure multi-party computation (SMPC) and share her recent research into the subject. We begin by explaining the basic concept of SMPC and how it differs from traditional methods of computation.