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Product launches, events and practical guidance from the Cloud29 team.
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PHP2Shell: two critical PHP flaws, and what to do this week
PHP shipped an emergency release on 21 October fixing two unauthenticated remote code execution flaws. Every PHP installation serving web requests is affected. Here is the practical response.
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An AI-built website was compromised six days after launch
A South African site built with an AI tool was taken down six days after going live. The admin password was sitting in the page source. What it means if you are shipping AI-built software.
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A login screen is not access control
A South African franchise exposed internal data through a dashboard that had a login page. The data was being sent to the browser before anyone logged in. The lesson applies to almost every internal tool.
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Private cloud or public cloud: how to actually choose
The honest comparison. Where public hyperscale wins, where a private or dedicated environment wins, and the questions that settle it for most South African businesses.
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Where your data physically lives, and why POPIA cares
Data residency gets treated as a box to tick. It is really a question about jurisdiction, latency, and what happens when someone asks you to prove it.
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Your backup is only a backup if ransomware cannot reach it
Most businesses that lose data to ransomware had backups. The backups were on a share the ransomware could write to. The 3-2-1 rule, and how to test it honestly.
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The VPN is retiring, and good riddance
The corporate VPN was designed for a world where the office was the network. It is slow, it is a single point of failure, and it gives everyone far more access than they need.
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Hosting your accounting system: a checklist before year end
Sage, Pastel, IQ Retail and QuickBooks were built for a server down the hall. Moving them to the cloud works well, provided you check these things first.
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The cheapest cloud bill is rarely the one you expected
Consumption pricing is genuinely good for some workloads. For a steady line-of-business system it mostly transfers risk onto you. Where the surprises come from.
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Twelve questions to ask any cloud provider before you sign
A vendor-neutral due diligence list. Ask us these too, and compare the answers with whoever else you are considering.
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