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Robert Thas John
Robert Thas John
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Robert Thas John

Robert Thas John is a data engineer with a career that spans two decades. He manages a team of data engineers, analysts, and machine learning engineers – roles that he has held in the past. He leads a number of efforts aimed at increasing the adoption of machine learning on embedded devices through various programs from Google Developers and ARM Ltd, which licenses the chips found in Arduinos and other microcontrollers. He started his career as a software engineer with work that has spanned various industries. His first experience with embedded systems was in programming payment terminals.
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Embracing cloud security

There are various providers of cloud computing both at the platform level and at the infrastructure level. All providers have security features native to them that might appear to be overwhelming at first. You only need to do a bit of studying to get up to speed.

Multi-factor authentication

We already discussed MFA in the previous section, but repeating it here will only reinforce its importance. Every cloud provider worth using will have MFA baked in. Ensure that all of your users utilize MFA.

Identity and access management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is how you control access to what a user can do on your cloud platform. On a cloud platform, users aren’t limited to humans. They could also be services. When it comes to controlling or granting permissions, apply the principle of least privilege. This simply means that you grant privileges or permissions that let the user do only what they need to do. For example, on GCP, you can...

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Robert Thas John

Robert Thas John is a data engineer with a career that spans two decades. He manages a team of data engineers, analysts, and machine learning engineers – roles that he has held in the past. He leads a number of efforts aimed at increasing the adoption of machine learning on embedded devices through various programs from Google Developers and ARM Ltd, which licenses the chips found in Arduinos and other microcontrollers. He started his career as a software engineer with work that has spanned various industries. His first experience with embedded systems was in programming payment terminals.
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