By Omelio Alexander, Digital Resource Specialist, Paschalville Library

The Free Library of Philadelphia is currently only open at limited locations and on a limited schedule as we adjust to this new normal for the safety of the public and our staff. You may be wondering how you can access our services, particularly how the Library can help get you back into the workforce as our economy recovers. No worries, we are still here for you. While in-person assistance is something we will be navigating carefully, we have many virtual resources available, including many specifically geared to job searching and professional development. When accessing those resources you can call your local library to get guidance or our Helpline 1-833-TALK-FLP (1-833-825-5357). You may even find yourself speaking with me. And as you may have come to expect from me at Paschalville, I will do my best to help you, as will my colleagues.

There are also virtual programs that you can sign up for, like live rsum reviews and mock interviews through our Workplace department: freelibrary.org/workplace. I also offer rsum reviews through email for Paschalvilles Job Readiness Lab. You can email your rsums to: PaschalvilleJobReadinessLab@gmail.com. In the email, please place Rsum Review in the subject line, be sure to include the type of job you are seeking, and share your professional strengths in the body of the email. Upon receipt, I will review your rsum and offer you suggestions on how it can be improved.

We are all eager for the libraries to reopen safely. But in the meantime, we invite you to take advantage of the many digital resources and virtual programs at your disposal. We are continually glad to be of service and echo the Health Departments wise words: stay calm, stay alert, and stay safe.

To access, visit freelibrary.org. Click databases in the blue Find box. Filter by subject to select Jobs & Jobseekers. All databases are available to all Free Library locations and remotely with your library card and PIN.

Career Cruising

Explore careers, education, and financial aid. Polish your skills and conduct an effective job search. Explore the Employment Guide that provides advice for all stages of your job search including developing a job search plan, to writing a rsum and cover letter, to preparing for interviews, and more.

Glassdoor

Glassdoor.com gives you an inside look at company salaries, reviews and interview questions for more than 28,000 companies.

Homework Help Online (Tutor.com)

Get live, online tutoring in English and Spanish, every day from 10 a.m. to midnight for K-12, college students, adult learners, and job seekers. Upload an essay or rsum and get feedback. Access a library of study, test prep and career resources.

Learning Express Library

This module offers sections on business writing, the job search, skills for success and skills for successful interviews.

Lynda.com

Enjoy free access to thousands of beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses in leadership, management techniques, rsum writing, productivity, business, technology, creative skills, and more taught by industry experts.

Reference USA: U.S. Businesses, U.S. Jobs / Internships

Combines the power of business research tools and the job site, indeed.com. Search criteria includes: Job Title, Company Name, Business Type, Geography, and more.

Universal Class

Take online continuing education courses in a wide variety of subjects at your own pace from real instructors.

Rsums

Philadelphia Works philaworks.emsicareercoach.com

This website offers a rsum builder that uses ONET online to create content and creates a MS Word-compatible and editable document.

Canva canva.com/templates/rsums

Get professionally designed rsum templates that you can customize and download as PDFs.

ONET Online onetonline.org

This resource offers a large database that compiles lists of tasks commonly associated with specific job titles. Its a great resource for rsum content.

Other Helpful Resources

LinkedIn linkedin.com

This professional social media and networking site connects you with colleagues, employers, recruiters, and more.

GCF LearnFree gcflearnfree.org/jobsearch

Broswse this collection of tutorials on best practices while job seeking. You can also access how-tos on rsum and cover letter creation.

Google Drive drive.google.com

Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more. You can access templates including rsums, letters, proposals, and more. A Google/Gmail account is required to use Google Drive.

Employment Websites

Indeed.com Monster.com

Snagajob.com Simplyhired.com

Idealist.com Careerrookie.com

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Job Bank philaculture.org/what-we-do/job-bank

City of Philadelphia, Office of Human Resources (OHR) phila.gov/personnel/JobOpps.html

Organizations

PA Careerlink pacareerlink.pa.gov

Philadelphia Works Inc philaworks.org

Career Wardrobe careerwardrobe.org

Urban League of Philadelphia urbanleaguephila.org

Free Library Hotspots (free, one-on-one job-seeking assistance) freelibrary.org/hotspots

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What exactly is the cloud and how does it work?

More and more of our daily lives takes place online, from banking and schooling to working and family gatherings, even more so amid the coronavirus pandemic. The cloud is the invisible computing architecture that keeps many of these digital platforms and tools running smoothly. Really, being in the cloud just means storing data on someone elses computer. A few major tech companies run massive global networks of data centers, linked with ocean-spanning fiber-optic cables and complex systems of integrated hardware and software. So there is no single cloud per se. Rather, companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each run their own systems, almost like parallel internets. The risks of a companys whole cloud system going down at once are miniscule, though isolated outages of particular cloud services do happen.

Many internet users are seeing firsthand how disruptive it can be when the online tools they are relying on unexpectedly go offline or experience other bugs. For instance, when the videoconferencing software Zoom went offline for several hours one day in late August 2020, virtual classes around the United States were disrupted.

Dr. Tim Maurer is co-director of the Cyber Policy Initiative and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on cybersecurity and geopolitics of the digital age, he currently focuses on the emerging global order for cybersecurity and the financial system.

Taking a step back, the pandemic has accelerated a decade-long transformation that was already under way. Many companies, governments, and ordinary people alike are switching from onsite information technology (IT) infrastructure to cloud computing, which provides data storage and processing services remotely. The good news is that many cloud companies have hired seasoned professional security teams with highly technical skills to protect the cloud infrastructure.

The bad news is that, as more and more people use and depend on the cloud, the risks and consequences of a systemic failure increase. Each of the major cloud providers have set up their systems to be as resilient as possible to any single-point failurethats why the risk of the whole cloud going down at once is exceedingly small. But that doesnt mean that it is immune to threatsthere are many ways that cloud services could be compromised or disrupted.

A few massive companies dominate the cloud computing market. These large cloud companies have the deep pockets and highly trained personnel needed to design and manage systems that are extremely secure and highly resilient to various risks of failure. That is why, as a rule, it is far more secure for most companies, organizations, and people to store their online data in the cloud rather than try to protect it themselves.

But theres a catch. Hackers and other nefarious criminals know that if they compromise a cloud provider, they can essentially scoop up the valuable data of many targets at once. This risk is called the Fort Knox dilemma: the data stores of cloud companies are highly protected but also highly prized targets. Theres a reason the Oceans Eleven cast targeted a casino instead of a convenience store.

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And that isnt the only issue. The potential for threats against the cloud to create systemic risk are becoming increasingly apparent. A major cyber incident could have industry-wide or even economy-spanning effects, impacting financial services or triggering a temporary outage that prevents cloud clients from processing critical data like health insurance records.

Thankfully, the chances of an incident shutting down an entire cloud provider are exceedingly low: they make their systems as resilient as possible to keep that from happening. However, if one critical cloud-based dataset or process (like an algorithm for adjusting insurance claims, for example) failed, there could be significant consequences. Thats why its so important to understand the potential consequences of threats to cloud customers data as thoroughly as possible. As more and more critical data, like financial transactions and health records, are stored in the cloud, the consequences of major breaches will only increase.

The cloud is not invulnerable to hackers. While cloud providers can create secure environments, some vulnerabilities remain, and the security of the environment still also depends on their clients to store data securely. Cloud companies and the customers they serve both have important roles to play to keep data safe, and they divide up the responsibilities for data security accordingly. To use an analogy, it is not enough for a cloud provider to design a highly secure virtual safe: customers also have to be sure to set a good combination and keep that information from prying eyes.

In July 2019, for instance, a hacker broke into the cloud-based databases that stored personal information of Capital One credit card applicants and later attempted to sell the stolen information online. Personal information sold on the dark web can then be used by criminals for identity theft and other forms of fraud. This incident illustrates the damage that can ensue when security measures are breached.

Hackers arent the only risk facing the cloud or even the most common one. Cloud services can be disrupted by many unforeseen events including lightning strikes or flooding at data centers or even human error. In one notable incident, a typo by an Amazon engineer took the companys cloud storage service offline for many U.S.-based customers for four hours. These risks can have significant ripple effects because cloud services are complex and often rely on convoluted, interdependent internal systems. A failure can have outsize and unpredictable effects.

Additionally, vulnerabilities wired into the hardware and coded into the software that run the cloud can have broad impacts. The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affected the chips used in cloud servers, could have allowed attackers to spy on other cloud customers data. Cloud companies made herculean efforts to address these vulnerabilities and build a fix before the bugs became public in early 2018, underscoring their potential impact.

As organizations migrate to the cloud, responsibility for security becomes shared between cloud service providers and the organizations they serve. Having a clear understanding of who is responsible for what, especially where aspects of that responsibility are shared, is critical for pulling off a migration that leads to greater security, not less. Cloud service providers already assist their customers with facilitating this transition, and as they expand their business in the United States and abroad, it will be important that this assistance is scaled accordingly and provided equitably.

It is also clear that some reams of data are more important than others. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the United States, for example, specifically protects medical data. Financial regulators focus on data and processes critical for the functioning of the financial system. It will become more important going forward for experts to open up the black box of cloud service providers and assess and protect risk based on how critical a particular set of data and associated services are. Finally, the tech industry remains a nascent sector. Unlike other sectors like aviation or finance, mechanisms to cooperate remain very limited among the main cloud service providers and competition even trumps shared security concerns.

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Few things are more important for IT infrastructure than proper logging practices. Logs from both application and infrastructure components help IT admins find the root causes of issues. With the help of machine learning to analyze logs, IT admins can prevent and remediate security issues.

Logs are everywhere and new ones are generated all the time, but they cannot be taken for granted. As enterprises move into the cloud, they must understand how cloud operations change logging procedures. This article covers many aspects of logging in the cloud, including the cost of log collection, how to approach different types of cloud logs and storage decisions.

Logging on site is normally straightforward in terms of collection and analysis. While the cloud doesn't change that in theory, it does change a few considerations.

Log storage and analysis with on-premises resources traditionally isn't expensive. Large drives with multicore CPUs are reasonable in cost, and often last for years. With log storage and analysis in the cloud, users pay for resources they consume. While logs are not typically massive files, the volume of logs that accumulates when you collect them from many sources can add up rapidly. Consider whether you'll be throwing money away on the monthly charge to store them.

The real surprise admins get with logging in the cloud is how log files are processed. Compute resource use becomes another ongoing monthly cost -- unless an IT organization disposes of unnecessary files, their costs will add up quickly. A third-party service for log analysis can help with this particular cost -- and it can work with both cloud and on-premises logs. However, log analytics tools add their own cost and time investment, which organizations must keep in mind.

IT organizations must decide what to do with logs. Unlike with on-premises deployments, the IT organization does not control all of the infrastructure and components to run the application. The question is whether the organization has the ability to make changes in the cloud service. The answer depends on the service -- infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS) or software (SaaS) -- as the access levels vary greatly.

With PaaS and IaaS cloud setups, IT admins have some control over logs and log analysis. With SaaS, the cloud provider controls almost everything from the data center hardware to the application. More admin control over the cloud environment makes it easier to see the value in log investment, because an organization can make meaningful changes, rather than just observing. The downside of more control over the cloud, with PaaS or IaaS, is the increased costs that go with it, which add to the cloud logging bill.

Pulling and processing detailed logs on a SaaS application might not be worth the investment in time and money, as an IT organization probably cannot make any effective changes to the SaaS environment or application. There's no real reason to work on these insights into information the cloud provider should already have.

With IaaS, cloud adopters have the most control over the environment, but are still limited to what the cloud provider allows them to adjust. Information from logs is key for cost-affecting decisions, such as whether to increase network bandwidth or compute resources for an application or service. Log analytics can lead to environment optimizations that pay off with lower overall cloud consumption.

When managing a cloud environment, select which logs to keep and which logs to ignore -- or not track at all. Look at the logs for the services that affect the environment and that are for aspects of the setup that you can change. Learn what the cloud provider monitors and optimizes as part of its responsibility for the environment.

To get started with logging in the cloud, look at the top 10 log types your organization monitors in its on-premises environment. Examples include access made between applications stacks, security logs or logs that show application errors. These logs should be universal -- from on premises to cloud services. Two additional logs that might not be on the on-premises log list are internet access and WAN. Connection to the cloud is key, so these logs should be a cornerstone of the collection process.

For logs the cloud provider would monitor, such as those tracking hardware events, verify the responsibility with the cloud provider. Commonly, the IaaS provider manages the hardware and therefore collects, analyzes and acts on hardware-related logs.

The length of time your organization retains its logs matters, especially for security events. After a security breach or attack occurs, logs are critical evidence used for a full investigation and to understand the effect of the issue.

Since cloud storage is a monthly cost, determine what logs to keep long term and which ones to dismiss on a more frequent basis. Consider transferring some types of cloud logs into long-term archival storage for future reference. Retrieval time can take hours or even days -- but this history could save a lot in costs when you need it.

While cloud-based log collection, management and analysis follow many of the same guidelines as these activities in on-premises environments, your organization will be most efficient if it accounts for cloud-related differences. Pay attention to log retention times, the size of your log storage and how many logs you're processing to keep costs under control. With logging in the cloud, key events and actions should be similar to those used in on-premises procedures, but don't forget to include WAN and internet activity logs, as these are more unique to cloud environments.

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