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Troubleshooting microservices: Challenges and best practices

When people hear ‘microservices’ they often think about Kubernetes, which is a declarative container orchestrator. Because of its declarative nature, Kubernetes treats microservices as entities, which presents some challenges when it comes to troubleshooting. Let’s take a look at why troubleshooting microservices in a Kubernetes environment can be challenging, and some best practices for getting it right.

What Are Managed IT Services?

If you're a business owner, then you know that technology is important. You need it to run your business, keep track of your finances, and communicate with your employees and customers. That's why it's so important to have a good IT department - or outsource your IT needs to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) like Computer Emergency.

The Key Principles of Data Protection (EU, and North America)

There’s no doubt that the typical modern enterprise generates large amounts of data that must be moved, analyzed, and safely stored. Because much of this data involves the privacy of users and customers, various laws and regulations have been created to drive strong protection practices. While these regulations vary a great deal from country to country, the underlying concept remains the same: keep data safe while making it available to authorized users when they need it.

Statistics on Cyber Terrorism Attacks and Computer Security Costs

For the last three decades, cyber terrorism has risen exponentially. Not only do these attacks cost time and money, but they also produce mass fear and hysteria, undermining national infrastructure and leading to resource scarcity in countries all over the world-including the United States. in this article, we give an overview of cyber terrorism, taking a look at what it is and what impacts it can have.

Extending autorun

What’s autorun? Autorun is a feature of the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF)1 that simplifies the process of adding and executing new policy. We have talked about Modular policies with autorun and the Augments before. This time, we dig into autorun a bit deeper to explore some of its current features and look at how to implement your own as we did during The Agent is In, Episode 15 - Extending Autorun

Why Templates Deliver Critical Best Practice Workflows For Maximizing Enterprise Security

It’s difficult for even the most advanced security teams to stay on top of evolving incursions and ensure their processes effectively map to prevent them. That’s where pre-built templates come into the conversation. No-code, security automation templates can handle the considerable burden of having to maintain and update processes that integrate with a company’s security stack.

How to Grow Your Own Cybersecurity Talent

The cyberthreat landscape has expanded in recent years, accelerated by enterprises promoting remote work and more reliance on cloud computing. These are a business necessity, and yet, facing down cybersecurity threats often doesn’t come with an expansion of resources to address them. In a future post, I’ll discuss more about the Security Poverty Line, and how organizations deal with its harsh trade-offs and compromises in an uncompromising landscape.

5 Common Cybersecurity Mistakes You Can Easily Prevent

A comprehensive organizational strategy and robust company security policy are crucial for effective cybersecurity. A company needs to make a concerted effort to design, execute, and follow through with a plan to deal with cyber-risk management from top to bottom. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for the needs of enterprises in managing cyber risk. But in order to maintain strong system security in the face of constant threats, there are some core principles that every company should follow.

How to launch Confidential VMs on Azure

Canonical is happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure. Ubuntu 20.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to support Confidential VMs on Azure! Ubuntu CVMs use the latest security extensions of the third generation of AMD CPUs, Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). As such, they bring about a fundamental shift in the traditional threat model of public clouds. They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series, and only take a few clicks to enable and use!
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An Introduction to Automation Basics

Automation is a powerful tool. With some foresight and a little elbow grease, you can save hours, days, or even months of work by strategically automating repetitive tasks. What makes automation particularly beneficial is that it eliminates manual interaction with multiple systems. Rather than manually uploading data to an event response system or notifying key support personnel of an incident, tying these tasks together through automation can reduce critical time and help resolve problems faster and more efficiently. But, before we can fill in the gaps between all of the platforms we are responsible for, we first need to understand how data moves around on the web and how we can use that process to our advantage.