Security is paramount for almost any sized organization. With the rapid pace of technological advancements and the increasing reliance on digital infrastructure, organizations face an ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats and risks. Protecting sensitive data, intellectual property, and customer information is no longer optional; it is a critical component of maintaining trust and credibility in the marketplace.

On April 24, 2024, Francis Odum, released his research report titled, “The Evolution of the Modern Security Data Platform” in The Software Analyst Newsletter. This report examines the evolution of modern security operations, tracing its evolution from a reactive approach to a proactive approach. It highlights the shift towards automation, threat intelligence integration, and controlling the costs of ingesting and storing data as crucial elements in enhancing cyber defense strategies.

In the complex world of modern distributed systems, observability is vital. Observability allows engineers to understand what's happening within their systems, debug issues rapidly, and proactively ensure optimal application performance. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful, vendor-neutral solution to address the challenges of observability across different technologies and environments.

CloudTrail logs are a type of log generated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its CloudTrail service. AWS CloudTrail records API calls made within an AWS account, providing a history of activity including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. For example, CloudTrail events are generated for actions such as EC2 instances start/stop, S3 bucket read/write and IAM user creation/deletion.

The expenses associated with collecting, storing, indexing, and analyzing data have become a considerable challenge for organizations. This data is growing as fast as 35% a year, multiplying the problems. This surge in data comes with a corresponding rise in infrastructure costs. These costs often force organizations to make decisions about what data they can afford to analyze, which tools they must use, and how and where to store data for long-term retention.

Saas Software is immensely popular because it allows customers to get the latest enhancements and feature upgrades faster without having to install updates or migrate to newer software versions. That’s why a Major SaaS Software Development company was so eager to improve their developer productivity to deliver software faster and more reliably.

We are thrilled to announce that Observo.ai has successfully attained SOC 2 Type 2 certification, a testament to our unwavering commitment to data security and privacy.

Observability Pipelines have become vital tools for DevOps and Security teams to manage, control, store, route, and optimize telemetry data analyzed by Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Log management platforms. These teams spend hours every week trying to fit an increasingly large volume of data into the same size box.

As a pivotal element within your networking configuration, logs generated by Network Firewalls hold immense importance from both security and compliance standpoints. These logs serve as a source of valuable information, encompassing records of network traffic details like source and destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, timestamps, and the actions (e.g., allowed or denied) taken by the firewall for each connection or packet.

A large North American hospital system saw rapid increases in its Microsoft Azure Sentinel SIEM expenses primarily due to the escalating growth of security telemetry data. Their primary data sources were Fortinet Firewall logs, Windows Event Logs, Active Directory, Domain Controller, and DNS logs.