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Securing IT in healthcare organizations: All you need to know

From maintaining electronic health records and generating medical reports, to carrying out robot-assisted surgeries and setting up online doctor-patient communication portals, the healthcare industry is becoming increasingly reliant on technology to effectively carry out day-to-day operations. While incorporating advanced technology assists healthcare professionals in providing better care for patients, it also increases the attack surface for cybercriminals looking to exploit sensitive data.

Building a Rails App With Multiple Subdomains

In today’s post, we’ll learn how to build a Rails app that can support multiple subdomains. Let’s assume that we have a gaming website funkygames.co and we want to support multiple subdomains such as app.funkygames.co, api.funkygames.co, and dev.funkygames.co with a single Rails application. We want to ensure that proper authentication is performed for all subdomains and that there are no duplicate routes.

A List of the Best Open Source Threat Intelligence Feeds

Threat intelligence feeds are a critical part of modern cybersecurity. Widely available online, these feeds record and track IP addresses and URLs that are associated with phishing scams, malware, bots, trojans, adware, spyware, ransomware and more. Open source threat intelligence feeds can be extremely valuable—if you use the right ones. While these collections are plentiful, there are some that are better than others.

Announcing our new $11M Series B funding

Nearly eight years ago, Cory and I started on a journey to help developers build software quickly and painlessly. As software developers ourselves, we had felt the pain of being afraid to ship and spending late nights tracking down bugs. In 2013, we launched Rollbar into the world so that developers could build software faster, shipping often without fear. These days, lots of people talk about continuous delivery, and nearly all of them focus on automating releases.

Pro tip: How to monitor client certificate expirations with Prometheus

Certificates can be difficult to track and opaque to administrators, and if any expire without someone noticing, embarrassing outages can happen. At Grafana Labs we strive to make all things visible and observable; why should certificates be any exception? In this post we will explore an easy way to expose and monitor certificate expirations using Grafana and Prometheus.

Defer Mode in Azure Service Bus Queues and Topic Subscriptions

Azure Service Bus is a brokered messaging service offered by Azure that can be used to decouple the various applications forming the business integration solving the business problem. The Applications transfer messages between them to share the data between them. The messages can be in XML, JSON or simple text format.

How we identified clients with SSL certificates affected by Let's Encrypt mass-revocation

Yesterday, we sent out notifications to all our clients that are affected by the Let's Encrypt mass revocation of SSL certificates. In this post, we'll share the details how we found those certificates. Now, the morning after, we're well rested and in good shape to do a proper write-up on the matter.

3 Things We Learned from EMA About AIOps and the Automation Handshake

AIOps is the trendy cool new kid on the block in the IT operations world. No doubt about it. However, with all the buzz surrounding AIOps, it’s easy to skip over some of the basics. How many IT operations professionals can clearly define what AIOps is? Beyond the baseline definition, why should you care? What about plugging it into your existing automation and analytics ecosystem?

Asset Management On-Boarding and Off-Boarding Users: 3 Keys to an Off-Boarding Process

A friend of mine recently shared an experience with me that he had while working as a manager for a software manufacturer. The experience was about an employee he had to terminate. He told me that after meeting with the employee and HR, he completed the paperwork that was required and sent it back to the HR department. Six months later, he received an email from finance giving him an overview of the expenses for his department.