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4 ways to connect your data & your web apps

A wise tech-guy once said, “It all comes down to data and how it is exchanged”. Spot on we’d say! Laptops, hand-held devices, smart TVs, all send and receive data. Apps, websites, and software programs, all function on data. Needless to say, there’s an obvious connection there. The invisible thread between devices and software programs / apps, is the data binding them. It is ‘data’ which enables apps to control devices.

The Data Explosion and its Effect on Security

Data is exploding. The shift to digital business is driving a massive expansion in the volume of data that organizations produce, use, and store. It is also accelerating the velocity of data—that is, the data is changing more rapidly than ever before. Which in many ways is great—more data can bring more insight into customers, markets, and opportunities. But more data can also be a problem.

Five Status Page Messages to Send During an Outage

During a server outage, your IT team can feel pulled in two different directions: First, having to communicate with customers about the issue and second, fixing the actual problem. Since you want to keep your customers informed while working to resolve the issue, there’s a solution tailored to your team: A status page can help you communicate while keeping pages updated with specific, clearly-written automated messages.

EventSentry SysAdmin Tools: Digital Signature Verification with checksum.exe

Windows supports a code-signing feature called Authenticode, which allows a software publisher to digitally sign executable files (e.g. .exe, .msi, …) so that users can verify their autenticity. The digital signature of a file can be viewed in the file properties in Windows explorer on the “Digital Signature” tab.

NiCE Extends Microsoft System Center Operations Manager by Monitoring Office 365 Synthetic Transactions for Hybrid Exchange

Leonberg, 14-03-2018 – NiCE IT Management Solutions GmbH, a key-player in the Enterprise Application Monitoring market with more than 25 years of experience in complementing the major IT Management Platforms like Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (OM) and Micro Focus Operations Manager has announced the availability of the NiCE Active O365 Management Pack, enabling advanced synthetic, hybrid Microsoft Exchange Online monitoring.

Mattermost 4.8: Faster loading assets with Amazon CloudFront and simplified SAML migration

We just shipped our March 2018 update and Mattermost users and admins alike have a lot to be excited about: Mattermost now offers enhanced compatibility with Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network that helps accelerate load times for static assets, improving the user experience, E20 admins can now easily migrate users to SAML single sign-on via a CLI command, increasing security with access controls that ensure only authorized users can access critical data.

Status.io and GDPR

We’re just a few months away from mandatory compliance with GDPR. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the EU National Data Protection legislation and is due to take effect in May 2018. The GDPR is a new regulation to protect personal data of EU citizens. It affects all organizations (even outside of the EU) that process data of EU citizens. In our previous article “Preparing for the GDPR”, we shared some resources for learning more about the GDPR.

Development: Don't hack the libraries you use

This is one of those things they don’t teach you in school. These days, it’s not only time-consuming to build everything from scratch, but also not wise. These days, it’s all about rapid prototyping, continuous integration and “moving fast and breaking things”. There’s no point in implementing a time and date Javascript library, as moment.js already does that job wonderfully.