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Turning Data into Proactive Security

With cloud computing growing at a phenomenal rate across the world, shifts in consumer behavior towards digital services are resulting in evolutionary changes for the banking, financial services and insurance industry. Cloud-based banking, for example, is regarded as a catalyst for business transformation and a turning point in financial services. Cyber safety, however, has become a key concern holding back cloud adoption in many organizations.

An 8-point checklist to get Cisco management right

Cisco, one of the first companies to debut in the networking space, has given rise to radical and revolutionary technologies, inventions, and innovations that have helped set the stage for modern-day networking. Contemporary networks house an abundance of Cisco network components and employ manifold Cisco network technologies, making Cisco an integral part of their core network infrastructure.

Alert AA20-302A: Federal agencies warn about ransomware attacks targeting hospitals

A cybersecurity bulletin was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on October 28, 2020. The three agencies have issued a high-level warning about an increased, imminent threat of ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector. The cybercriminal group behind the TrickBot, Ryuk, and BazarLoader malware is now targeting U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.

Elevate your Oracle Monitoring and Service Management now and get 20% off!

Get above and beyond Oracle monitoring on SCOM by creating actionable ServiceNow incidents from your SCOM alerts with real-time, two-way synchronization. Cookdown and NiCE have joined forces to help you leverage your SCOM and Oracle monitoring investment while increasing your IT Service Management quality, in the best possible way.

Monitor Snowflake with Datadog

Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform that enables users to easily store, manage, analyze, and share high volumes of structured and semi-structured data. Whereas traditional data architectures often consist of multiple databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, Snowflake breaks down the silos between your different data sources and serves as a single source of truth for a wide range of simultaneous workloads.

Internet Downtime in Q3 2020 | The Uptime.com Report

We once asked whether it was possible to remain both incompetent and in business. We concluded that while incompetency is not a desirable trait, it is surprisingly possible to remain in business for a fairly short while. What we have learned in Q3 is that complacency allows internet downtime to fester. Our Destimate for Q3 of 2020 is fairly high. We expect the average business with monitoring and minimal IT resources stand to lose 17.4% of revenue on the conservative side, and as much as 22.35%.

Security Monitoring: 10 things you need to check right now

One of the most crucial aspects of network monitoring is security monitoring. Security breaches are more common now than ever before. The whole integrity of your network is at stake if even one node gets attacked. This is why it’s vital that businesses rely on a central network security software that continuously monitors the effectiveness of the security measures in place. Having network security tools is just a small part of the bigger picture.

Fine-tuned container infrastructure: Defining different sets of instance types per node group

Spot by NetApp’s Ocean continuously ensures all pod requirements are met for immediate scheduling by Kubernetes on the right nodes with intelligent bin-packing for optimal resource utilization. In some cases applications will have instance type dependencies, meaning that the application will run optimally on a specific set of cloud compute instances.

Curb alert noise for better productivity : How-To's and Best Practices

On the quest to provide the best uptime, software platforms depend on complex interconnected microservices. This often leaves them vulnerable to cascading failures creating a massive deluge of alerts from monitoring tools when things go wrong. In this blog, we explore how Squadcast can be configured to curb alert noise for better productivity with the help of the most advanced deduplication features.

Tuning to save resources

Typically when tuning SCOM we talk about saving time and reducing alert noise, but today I’m going to make a quick post on saving database space through tuning. If you’d like to get an idea of what your current database usage is, take a look at this tool from scom2k7.com. This will give you a breakdown of where space is used in the SCOM Data Warehouse.