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Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Cloud computing

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing allows us to use computing resources that are located in someone else's data center via the internet. In today's world, the need to have physical servers in an organization is slowly disappearing.

Having physical servers within an organization has the following downsides:

  • An IT team is required to always be available to manage the servers.
  • Servers require physical storage space in a building.
  • They use a lot of power (electricity).
  • They generate a lot of heat because the devices are always powered on.
  • If a hardware failure occurs on a server, this may cause a disruption in network services.

With cloud computing, an organization can eliminate the need for physical servers and simply pay for only the resources it uses from a cloud computing service provider such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon's AWS, or Google's GCP. On the backend of cloud providers, they use a lot of virtualization...

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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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