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Five worthy reads: Data security is taking the world by storm

Information. Data. Personal details. Particulars. Intelligence. Call it what you like—the universal truth is that in the present age, personal data has become one of the most valuable possessions. Companies around the world are scrambling to secure the data they have collected, while those with malicious intentions are vying for these coveted bits of information.

Ransomware attacks continue to rise in 2018

It’s official. Ransomware isn’t just one of the most common types of malware, it is the most prevalent malware used in cyberattacks according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). This report found that of the data breaches involving malware in 2017, 39 percent made use of ransomware, which was twice the amount used the previous year.

Announcing variable substitution in Stackdriver alerting notifications

When an outage occurs in your cloud application, having fast insight into what’s going on is crucial to resolving the issue quickly. If you use Google Stackdriver, you probably rely on alerting policies to detect these issues and notify you with relevant information. To improve the organization and readability of the information contained in these alerts, we’ve added some new features to make our alerting notifications more descriptive, useful and actionable.

Introducing Dashboard Widgets

This morning we launched a new update for the RapidSpike App. This update includes a totally new Dashboard experience for our users. Our old dashboard – or “Home” screen – featured a number of fairly static graphs and charts showing your account usage. We felt that this screen was badly in need of an update to show off the cool and exciting facts and figures RapidSpike can generate.