Sweating IT assets, ever heard of them? It might seem nonsensical to imagine an IT asset perspiring from being overworked, but it’s actually not a far-off analogy. When a business delays the purchasing of new technology as long as possible, it’s called ‘sweating assets.” Companies have their reasons for this strategy, but it usually comes down to one thing: an attempt at cost-savings. Do sweating assets actually help to achieve this and where do they miss the mark?
Today we are here to make a small compilation of the new Pandora FMS features launched throughout this last year 2020, a general review of all the small advances that we incorporated and that will be useful when you are at the controls of our software. Mainly we are going to deal with new features but also great improvements in quality of use that we added to Pandora FMS throughout 2020.
Any organization with data assets is a possible target for an attacker. Hackers use various forms of advanced cyberattack techniques to obtain valuable company data; in fact, a study by the University of Maryland showed that a cyberattack takes place every 39 seconds, or 2,244 times a day on average. This number has increased exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic forced most employees to work remotely, and drastically increased the attack surface of organizations around the world.
ESG research on cyber risk management, which involved 340 cybersecurity professionals, revealed that 40 percent felt tracking patch and vulnerability management over time was their biggest challenge.
Two years ago I decided to migrate our Monitive blog to a Medium publication called Once Upon A Site. This happened for several reasons, including the fact that we are getting more readers on Medium than we were getting on our blog at the time. Of course, all while ignoring all there is to SEO. This was a good call at the time.
For the 7.10 release of Elastic Workplace Search, we highlighted some of the new analytics logging capabilities and took you through a short walkthrough of some sample analysis scenarios. With the 7.11 release we introduced analytics fields, which open up new possibilities for exploring query and click data with helpful dashboards and visualizations.
We are excited to bring you a number of updates for using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch managed service) in the AWS Marketplace.
There are many hidden costs in running sub-optimal IT operations, that most organizations don’t consider. Enterprises often look at service downtime as their only KPI, but that is really only the tip of the iceberg. Without a properly operating incident management lifecycle, enterprises tend to support poorly performing services instead of fixing them.
