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Security roundup: Top AI stories in 2024
2024 has been a banner year for artificial intelligence (AI). As enterprises ramp up adoption, however, malicious actors have been exploring new ways to compromise systems with intelligent attacks. With the AI landscape rapidly evolving, it’s worth looking back before moving forward. Here are our top five AI security stories for 2024. Can you hear…
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Another category? Why we need ITDR
Technologists are understandably suffering from category fatigue. This fatigue can be more pronounced within security than in any other sub-sector of IT. Do the use cases and risks of today warrant identity threat detection and response (ITDR)? To address this question, we work backwards from the vulnerabilities, threats, misconfigurations and attacks that IDTR specializes in…
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On holiday: Most important policies for reduced staff
On Christmas Eve, 2023, the Ohio State Lottery had to shut down some of its systems because of a cyberattack. Around the same time, the Dark Web had a “Leaksmas” event, where cyber criminals shared stolen information for free as a holiday gift. In fact, the month of December 2023 saw more than 2 billion…
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How I got started: Incident responder
As a cybersecurity incident responder, life can go from chill to chaos in seconds. What is it about being an incident responder that makes people want to step up for this crucial cybersecurity role? With our How I Got Started series, we learn from experts in their field and find out how they got started…
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Diving into a new year at DigitalOcean
At DigitalOcean, we are building the simplest scalable cloud. Our global team is shaping the future of cloud computing and AI, helping builders and dreamers to focus on innovation, not infrastructure, through our simple, scalable products. In 2025, our aspirations are as wide and deep as the ocean, and we believe that “When a great…
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2024: A year of transformational change for DigitalOcean
As I think back on my time since joining as CEO earlier this year, I want to reflect on DigitalOcean’s accomplishments in 2024. From accelerated product development to re-invigorated community efforts, this was a year of transformation for DigitalOcean. As the simplest scalable cloud, DigitalOcean is committed to serving our customers by designing simple yet…
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Introducing Droplet Autoscale Pools: Seamless Scaling for Your Workloads
At DigitalOcean, we understand that efficiently scaling your infrastructure is key to delivering seamless, high-performance applications. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Droplet Autoscale Pools, a new feature that automates the scaling of your Droplets based on how they’re using resources. Droplet Autoscaling helps ensure that businesses only pay for the compute resources they need,…
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DigitalOcean Now Offers Alipay as a Payment Method for Cloud Computing Services
At DigitalOcean, we’re dedicated to making cloud infrastructure easy and accessible to developers everywhere. In effort of this and to support our global community, we are thrilled to announce that DigitalOcean now accepts Alipay as a payment method for any and all DigitalOcean services and products. This addition will help to enable more customers, especially…
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Join Us at Deploy 2025: Scale with Simplicity
Developers at growing businesses face unique challenges, but building and scaling applications—whether it’s a cutting-edge AI app or a video streaming service—doesn’t have to be one of them. I’m excited to invite you to Deploy: Scaling With Simplicity, on January 22nd, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Deploy is DigitalOcean’s signature developer conference, now with an in-person…
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DigitalOcean Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now Generally Available
Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now generally available (GA) for all DigitalOcean customers. Earlier this year, on October 17, we announced early access (EA) to Internal Load Balancer, one of our latest Networking feature releases. October 17 was a while ago, so here is a refresher on Internal Load Balancer (ILB): What is DigitalOcean Internal…