The main focus for cybersecurity teams — moving beyond compliance — is to deliver the level of security required to manage the likelihood of a breach and the potential impact to the business. This is more effective than simply focusing on the cost of delivering security services.

Network hardware failures. Internet outages. DDoS attacks. These are the types of disruptions you probably spend your time preparing to handle. But there’s another potential source of trouble that most IT pros think about much less frequently, and which happens far more often: employee offboarding. Whether an employee is leaving to pursue another opportunity or an employee is being terminated, you need to make sure your company’s network and data are secure.

Like many in IT, I am a big fan of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). It’s one of those tools that you can’t really go without: it can help locate your company’s servers, desktops and mobile devices; it helps install client software, patch updates (see Microsoft Patch Tuesday); and it protects your endpoints and access control tools. All good things, but… Sometimes our beloved SCCM needs a little backup—like Robin to Batman.

Earlier this year, we shared the certified Ansible Collection for Sensu Go, which makes it easy to automate your monitoring and achieve real-time visibility into auto-scaling infrastructure. Now that Sensu Go 6 has been released, we’ll share the latest updates on the Collection, including the management aspects of Sensu Go 6, with a focus on the structure of Ansible playbooks in the Sensu Go 6 world.

The free availability of hundreds of thousands of open-source applications and components available as containers in public registries like Docker Hub presents both opportunities and challenges for enterprises looking to make the most of their shiny new Kubernetes clusters. Open-source software achieves a wide variety of functionality within modern applications, removing the need for developers to create their own services, such as logging and monitoring, caching, databases, message queues, etc.

In conjunction with VMworld 2020, we are announcing new functionalities of Tanzu Observability by Wavefront that accelerate analytics-driven insights and data onboarding for DevOps teams, including developers, Kubernetes operators, and wider operations teams. We have added support for PromQL, expanded packaged application insights, and grown the Tanzu Observability ecosystem—both within the Tanzu portfolio and outside of it—by adding support for popular DevOps and developer tools.

It seems almost everything is going digital during this pandemic: businesses, education, and medical consultations. This increased digital consumption is squeezing the juice out of the IT infrastructure of many organizations. On top of that, remote work policies are posing serious security issues. At times like these, IT infrastructure monitoring is like a football game for IT admins, except: So how do you navigate all these challenges and score a touchdown?

Set up custom error pages in HAProxy to ensure consistent, branded messaging that supports any backend web stack. The memory is probably still fresh: You’re shopping online at your favorite website, looking for something specific, you’ve got it narrowed down to two or maybe three products, you make the final decision, click to checkout and then— Internal Server Error. A cryptic error has replaced the page you were expecting. More than surprised, you feel knocked off balance.

Amazon S3 is a highly-scalable object storage system. Amazon S3 can contain any number of objects (files), and those objects can be organized into “folders”. However, to S3, folders don’t really exist. huh? That’s right. “Folders” are a human concept, applied to S3 keys for organizational purposes. But they’re nothing special to S3 itself. Before we begin, forget everything you know about the S3 Management Console.

Have you ever looked at SCOM on User Voice - Microsoft’s way of collecting feedback on what end users have to say about SCOM and its future? Well good news, the top 2 items are going to be addressed! At Ignite 2020 - System Center session, Dianna Marks (SCOM Product Marketing Manager) told us Microsoft have heard your feedback and will be taking action.