Jul 17, 2024: Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed PostgreSQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. PostgreSQL is an open source database management system. It has been successfully used for more than 3 decades across all IT sectors. Its maturity and its vibrant community consistently make it a first-choice DBMS among developers.

Cribl is a customer first company. Building high value, secure-by-design software for security and IT teams has been by far the most gratifying experience of my professional career. As a security professional that deeply believes in Cribl’s product and mission, I share the excitement of changing forever how our customers operate and enabling them to protect their organizations; working at Cribl has been my greatest calling.

Being a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) or delivering a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service is hard. You’re doing the jobs that are so hard that large swaths of organizations turn to you to handle those complex jobs for them. MSSP/MDR tech stacks are dynamic and highly customized, allowing for competitive offerings at competitive prices.

Ever want to get some data into CFEngine? Have you heard about the def.json Augments file?1 Augments are JSON data files that allow you to define classes and variables very early during agent initialization, before policy. Augments are practical in a variety of ways. Perhaps most notably for overriding policy defaults. Let’s look at a simple example.

Business monitoring is a necessary process, no matter what. It is crucial in supply chain management, too. Monitoring your supply chain can ensure fresh products, speedy deliveries, and sustainable production. This article will explore supply chain monitoring, critical metrics for various supply chain use cases, and how to monitor your supply chain with MetricFire.

Regular patching is essential for maintaining a secure environment, but there is no one-size fits all approach for keeping your Linux estate safe. So how do you balance the frequency of updates with operational stability? There are strategies for enabling security patching automations in a compliant and safe way, for even the most restrictive and regulated environments.