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Llambduh Issue #5 - IAM Best Practices: Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege in 9 steps

Llambduh's Newsletter Issue #5- 02/03/2025

Llambduh's Newsletter Issue #5- 02/03/2025

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Feature Story: IAM Best Practices: Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege in 9 steps

Monday Must Read: AWS Security Cookbook

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This Week in Tech History

Facebooks Logos over time

This Week in Tech History, on February 4, 2000, "The Sims," a groundbreaking life-simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, was released, becoming a cultural phenomenon and one of the best-selling PC games of all time, influencing the future of simulation gaming. Just four years later, on February 4, 2004, Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates, fundamentally transforming social networking and the way people connect and share information worldwide. Moving forward to February 8, 2005, Google Maps was introduced, setting a new standard for web-based mapping services and revolutionizing how people navigate and explore the world around them.

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