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Completing IT Security With Critical Alerting

Businesses and organizations shouldn’t simply rely on monitoring tools for security management. Such tools don’t provide redundancies, time-stamped audit trails and other elements needed for incident resolution. Also, security threats are rampant and tend to go unchecked even with the most reliable monitoring service. That’s why companies require critical alerting to become aware of security incidents and immediately solve them for business continuity.

Understanding Sumo Logic Query Language Design Patterns

The Sumo query language can be a source of joy and pain at times. Achieving mastery is no easy path and all who set on this path may suffer greatly until they see the light. The Log Operators Cheat Sheet is a valuable resource to learn syntax and semantics of the individual operators, but the bigger questions become “how can we tie them together” and “how can we write query language that matters?”

Simple/hard metrics that help reduce MTTR when looking for a root cause

Recently there was a mini-incident in a data center where we host our servers. It did not affect our service after all. And thanks to the right operational metrics, we’ve been able to instantly figure our what’s happening. But then an thought came up to me, how we would’ve been racking our heads trying to understand what’s happening without 2 simple metrics.

5 Server Monitoring Tools you should check out

You work on your software’s performance. But let’s face it: production is where the rubber meets the road. If your application is slow or it fails, then nothing else matters. Are you monitoring your applications in production? Do you see errors and performance problems as they happen? Or do you only see them after users complain? Worse yet, do you never hear about them? What tools do you have in place for tracking performance issues? Can you follow them back to their source?

Simplifying security auditing, Part 2: Auditing systems that store sensitive data

In part 1, we looked at an overview of auditing servers. In this blog, we’ll discuss which events you need to audit in your databases and file servers where sensitive data is stored. New data protection regulations and large-scale global attacks have made this more important than ever before. The main goal is to not only ensure that the accesses and modifications to sensitive data in your network are authorized, but also that file and column integrity are maintained.