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AWS chief Andy Jassy gets top job at Amazon as CEO Bezos steps down

CSO Magazine

He began as a marketing manager in 1997 and started AWS in 2003. The surprise announcement that Jeff Bezos will leave later this year and hand over the reins to AWS leader Andy Jassy marks a remarkable rise for Jassy.

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Rainbow tables explained: How they work and why they're (mostly) obsolete

CSO Magazine

Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert Philippe Oechslin, who published a paper on his work in 2003. A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

My advice for anybody that asks me which certifications they should get is this: find a certification in a subject that you wish to learn about,” Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard said. “If The CEH certification from the EC-Council was introduced in 2003 and is now in version 11. The Top Cybersecurity Certifications.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Since 2003, Bejtlich’s blog TaoSecurity has been a leading resource for network security monitoring practices and cybersecurity trends. Lesson learned Kamkar continues to test security integrity as co-founder and CSO of Openpath Security. Richard Bejtlich | @taosecurity.