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SAP Cloud Security: A strong defense is the first step

Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are impenetrable. Third party cybersecurity solutions are often used as well to make sure these environments are safe and secure.

How to Encrypt S3 Buckets Automatically with Torq

S3 buckets without encryption can leave sensitive data exposed and at risk. As a best practice and to meet a number of industry and governmental regulations, it’s important to ensure that S3 server side bucket encryption has been properly applied at all times. To do this, many security teams rely on their Cloud Posture Security Management (CSPM) platform and/or AWS GuardDuty to monitor their AWS resources and provide alerts when an S3 bucket is found unencrypted.

Slack Outage of 2/22/22 - Good Morning! Here's 16 Minutes of Stress!

For some time now, people have understood the importance of early warning systems, whether for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis, military defense, or business and financial crises. Why should service providers, especially those delivering software as a service (SaaS,) be any different? In a world where time is money and minutes mean millions, it is vital for organizations to keep a very close eye on the supply and delivery chain of their service to their end users, both business and consumer.

Don't Become a Cybersecurity Meme: 31 Funny But Sad Security Memes About Internet Privacy

Online privacy is no laughing matter, until it is. Now, we’re very serious about fundamental human digital rights and we work day and night to make sure our users' data is wrapped up safe and sound. But that said, sometimes you need to take a step back and relax. Yes, how corporations and governments track us online is horrifying. Of course, the erosion of personal privacy and individual freedoms is worrying. And yeah, the world and the internet are in rough shape right now.

Hybrid Monitoring for Azure and Microsoft 365

Business analytics and business continuity go hand in hand. Microsoft 365 as well as Azure services are used by companies around the globe to achieve better business outcomes. Learn why a hybrid approach to Azure and Microsoft 365 monitoring can be beneficial and what steps to take to get clear insights into SLA fulfillment.

Bare-metal or Cloud? The cost of performance and traffic

Bare metal servers are a valuable option for all sizes of businesses, including small, medium, and startups companies. When designing infrastructure it is important to manage cost. However, the decision on whether to run your application on bare metal or cloud provider should not be driven by the size of your company but by your infrastructure needs. Each approach has its own tradeoffs and complexities, especially since it is difficult to find two clouds with the same parameters.

Why Reliability Engineering Matters: an Analysis of Amazon's Dec 2021 US-East-1 Region Outage

In the field of Chaos Theory, there’s a concept called the Synchronization of Chaos—disparate systems filled with randomness will influence the disorder in other systems when coupled together. From a theoretical perspective, these influences can be surprising. It’s difficult to understand exactly how a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a devastating tornado. But we often see the influences of seemingly unconnected systems play out in real life.

Logic App Schema Validation: DateTime Restrictions

I recently published a post regarding BizTalk Schema Validation: DateTime Restrictions on my personal blog. Still, I was curious to see if we have the same capability in Logic Apps Standard and Consumption. And by doing that, see how compatible these two technologies are regarding XML Schemas and validations.

PagerDuty Receives Financial Services Competency From AWS

We are excited to announce that PagerDuty is now an approved AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. We’re looking forward to expanding our global reach and helping financial services organizations accelerate their cloud migration and digital acceleration journeys. This will allow us to further streamline and automate financial service companies’ digital operations while helping them reduce risk and manage compliance requirements.