When employees are faced with a tedious IT ticket process—especially for non-critical issues—most would rather suffer in silence. In fact, an independent survey recently uncovered that only 55% of employee incidents are actually reported to IT.

Website owners of that are considering purchase of website monitoring services often ask how such services work. Below we explain what exactly website monitoring is, the types of monitoring and how it is performed depending on what exactly it monitors.

Even though technology has advanced significantly over the past few decades, hackers and cybercriminals still target large volumes of email messages daily. Some of the biggest types of things that get sent through email include malware, ransomware, trojans, and viruses. These things are often disguised in some sort of “friendly” email message, an embedded link, or a cute kitten meme.

Today we announce InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source’s first official release candidate (RC). This represents a final version of the software as we move towards general availability. We appreciate all the feedback from our users over the last few years and realize that getting to this stage has taken longer than any of us predicted.

From the outset, Apple has been keen to protect user privacy and security, and deprecating kernel extensions is one of the company’s latest moves towards modernizing its platform. As part of Apple’s sustained effort to make macOS a more reliable and secure platform, the tech giant announced at WWDC 2019 that kernel extensions are going to be replaced in macOS Catalina with Apple’s new technology, system extensions. But, why should you care? Let’s explore now.

A broken or poor performing XHR can significantly impact a user’s experience with a page by slowing down the load time or causing it to break entirely. Many of our customers monitoring web applications agree that monitoring and optimizing XHR calls is the biggest lever they have to improve application performance. In April of this year, we announced that Raygun Real User Monitoring can now surface analytics into the response codes from XHR calls.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS) are protocols designed to safeguard traffic over the internet. SSL certificates allow websites to move from HTTP to HTTPS, a more secure communication channel on a network. Starting this September, the lifespan of an SSL/TLS certificate will be limited to 398 days, a reduction from the previous maximum certificate lifetime of 825 days.

There was a time when cyberattacks on identity and authentication infrastructures [like Active Directory (AD)] were immensely challenging to perform. A lot of forethought had to be put into devising a plan for the careful execution of attacks, and advanced technical knowledge of domains and networks was a requisite. Over time, with the advent of open-source pen testing tools, the knowledge gap and the complexities involved to carry out a full-scale cyberattack have narrowed drastically.

Istio is a service mesh that enables teams to manage traffic in distributed workloads without modifying the workloads themselves, making it easier to implement load balancing, canarying, circuit breakers, and other design choices. Versions of Istio prior to 1.5 adopted a microservices architecture and deployed each Istio component as an independently scalable Kubernetes pod. Version 1.5 signalled a change in course, moving all of its components into a single binary, istiod.