 | | | | Where We No Longer Write Emails Like Nobody Is Watching | | July 29th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit | This week, we'll talk about four new speakers for Structure Security this September, another standout quarter for the AWS juggernaut, and whether or not a new cyber Cold War is brewing. | | | STRUCTURE NEWS | | FOUR MORE REASONS WHY STRUCTURE SECURITY SHOULD BE ON YOUR CALENDAR THIS SEPTEMBER |  We’re two months away from Structure Security, scheduled for September 27th and 28th in San Francisco, and while we already had a great lineup of speakers planned, we decided to add a few more. Andy Ellis of Akamai (pictured), Stacy Stubblefield of TeleSign, Asheem Chandra of Greylock, and Security Empress Jessy Irwin are going to be joining us at Structure Security. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, I know a place where you can get one. Don't miss out on what promises to be an amazing meeting of the minds. | | | | INDUSTRY NEWS | | AMAZON WEB SERVICES POSTS $2.88 BILLION IN REVENUE IN Q2 2016, UP 58% FROM LAST YEAR | The headline at Venturebeat kind of says it all: Amazon Web Services remains on a roll. Operating income was $718 million, which means AWS continues to enjoy healthy margins on its industry-leading public cloud services.
ORACLE TO BUY CLOUD-SOFTWARE PROVIDER NETSUITE FOR $9.3 BILLION
When NetSuite began all those years ago with a sizable investment from Larry Ellison, you always sort of had the feeling that it would wind up as part of his main business. Oracle made it official this week, snapping up the company for $9.3 billion according to The Wall Street Journal, and while the deal should boost the amount of cloud revenue Oracle can claim next quarter, The Information thinks NetSuite’s main products are being overtaken by upstarts in financial-management software. (Subscription required on both those links.)
THE INTERNET OF THINGS WILL TURN LARGE-SCALE HACKS INTO REAL-WORLD DISASTERS
There’s no shortage of people freaked out by the security problems that could arise as the internet of things takes hold (Scott Montgomery of Intel will discuss this at Structure Security), and veteran security expert Bruce Schneier is among them. Writing for Motherboard, Schneier breaks down how an explosion in connections to the internet will have effects on our information security landscape that we can’t predict.
THE WHITE HOUSE NOW HAS A COLOR-CODED SCALE FOR CYBERSECURITY THREATS
Remember the Bush-era Homeland Security color-coded alert system? It’s back, sort of, in the form of a new system outlined by The Verge. It’s definitely good that various U.S. government agencies (including the FBI, which will be represented by CISO Arlette Hart at Structure Security) are talking about a coordinated response to security threats, but did they have to go with colors?
THIS STARTUP FROM APPLE VETERANS THINKS IT CAN DO BETTER THAN DROPBOX
Bertrand Serlet was an underappreciated force behind the ascension of Apple in the early 2000s, and his latest company just got a lot of money to work on a file-sharing app that works across mobile devices and the cloud. Upthere, as reported by Fortune, just received $77 million in funding led by Kleiner Perkins and Western Digital to build out its app.
MESOS REACHES MILESTONE, ADDS NATIVE DOCKER
Mesos has been around so long (check out Mesosphere CEO Florian Liebert at Structure 2015) and used in so many different production environments that I was actually surprised to learn this week that the Apache Mesos project hadn’t officially released a 1.0 version. Check that off the list, as the new version from Berkeley’s AMP Lab puts a nice round number on its release history with some welcome new features, as analyzed by The Next Platform.
| | | | BIG PICTURE |  This week the international information security industry was gifted an extremely juicy topic for discussion as Black Hat attendees arrive in Las Vegas this weekend: are Russian hacking groups really trying to impact the U.S. presidential election? Prominent security researchers had believed that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee servers in June, but the evidence was iffy. After Wikileaks dumped a treasure trove of DNC staffer emails on the internet late last week, clearly designed to heighten the embarrassment of party leaders as they arrived in Philadelphia for the convention, more damning evidence emerged. The New York Times has a good summary of the arguments here, and Matt Tait has a much more detailed analysis here. One immediate impact? Expect major political campaigns to spend a little more money on information security software and education by the time the next major election rolls around. But obviously, this story is just beginning. The next administration is going to have some interesting decisions to make about how the U.S. responds to hacking sponsored by nation-states. It’s one thing to condemn North Korea for embarrassing Sony executives, it’s quite another when tactic is used in hopes of influencing the outcome of an election. As most people reading this know, Stuxnet proved that the U.S. is not above going on the offensive when it comes to information warfare. Will the Obama administration respond to the DNC hack, assuming they’re on board with the notion that Russia was responsible for this hack? Is this just the first phase of a larger campaign to disrupt the election? The cocktail parties at Black Hat are going to be interesting. | | | | | | | | |  |
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