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Jonathan Simon

  • Executive Director, Election Defense Alliance
San Francisco
As seen in: Medium, PRWeb, Radio New Zealand (RNZ), Truthout, AlterNet, Mint Press News, Coast to Coast AM, OpEdNews, Who What Why, New Zealand Doctor
Senior Editor: WhoWhatWhy.org. CODE RED Computerized Elections and The War on American Democracy amazon.com/dp/B087H83JCR Public, observable vote counting.

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Jonathan Simon is Executive Director of Election Defense Alliance, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to restore observable vote counting and electoral integrity as the basis of American democracy. He is also an election integrity [blogger] (https://www.CodeRed2018.com/blog) and an editor for MintPress News.

Dr. Simon is author, most recently, of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy, [available at Amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/CODE-RED-Computerized-Election…

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Optimize the cost of logs storage in Elastic Cloud using hot and frozen data tiers

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By Jonathan Simon
| elastic.co
Collecting data is crucial for observability and security, and ensuring it is quickly searchable with low-latency results is essential for managing and protecting applications and infrastructure effectively. However, storing all of this data incurs ongoing storage costs, creating a key opportunity for cost savings. In Elastic Cloud, you can optimize storage expenses by setting up an index lifecycle policy.
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Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with Google Cloud

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By Jonathan Simon, Alex Chalkias
| elastic.co
Now that we’ve introduced Elastic Cloud encryption at rest and walked you through setting it up in AWS and Azure, it’s time to get you set up in Google Cloud. In this final blog of the series, we will explain how encryption at rest works with Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and then show you how to apply a Google Cloud KMS key to an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment for encrypting data and snapshots at rest.
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Encryption at rest in Elastic Cloud: Bring your own key with AWS KMS

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By Jonathan Simon, Udayasimha Theepireddy
| elastic.co
In the previous blog of this series, we unpacked the foundational concepts of encryption at rest and introduced you to Elastic Cloud’s “bring your own key” (BYOK) feature, which allows you to do encryption at rest with encryption keys managed by the KMS service of your cloud provider.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelance author and forensic analyst.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

For 20 years

How is social media changing news?

Quicker. More voices. More open pathways for truth. More open pathways for lies. More work for the readership.