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AWS CSPM Explained: How to Secure Your Cloud the Right Way

As organizations expand their AWS footprint, maintaining visibility and control over configurations can be challenging. Misconfigurations, unnoticed vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps can create serious security risks. AWS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) helps teams navigate these challenges by automating security checks, ensuring compliance, and providing continuous monitoring. Here’s what you need to know about AWS CSPM and why it’s essential for securing your cloud environment.

Monitoring Kubernetes Resource Usage with kubectl top

Efficient resource utilization is key to running Kubernetes workloads smoothly. Whether you're troubleshooting performance issues, optimizing resource requests and limits, or keeping an eye on cluster health, the kubectl top command is an essential tool. It provides real-time CPU and memory usage metrics for nodes and pods, helping you make informed decisions about scaling and resource allocation.

Dynamic Alerting on Processor (CPU) utilization | The Tony and Tonie Show

Tonie and Tony discuss a new article on dynamic alerts, which uses machine learning to adapt alert thresholds to normal patterns of behavior. They discuss how this works in Redgate Monitor, and how it helps increase alert relevance, allowing teams to focus on real performance issues.

What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)?

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology in which applications are built to match the behaviors a user would expect from the software. An evolution of Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD gathers user stories about how users expect applications to behave, then creates software tests to validate that their applications match this behavior. The BDD methodology utilizes specific language and naming conventions.

Building a Collective Defense: Collaborative Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing for Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure — including systems vital to energy, water, transportation, communication, healthcare, finance, the military, and more — is the backbone of any nation’s public health, safety, security, and economic stability. As a result of their necessity, these systems are prime targets for sophisticated state-sponsored threat actors, organized cybercrime groups, and even hacktivists interested in drawing the most attention to their cause.

AWS Service Comparison: ECS Vs. EC2 Vs. S3 Vs. Lambda

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve previously covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers. This guide will explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.

The Role of DevOps in Healthcare: Streamlining EHR Deployments and Updates

The healthcare industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with Electronic Health Records (EHR) at the forefront of this change. However, implementing and updating EHR systems remains a challenge for many healthcare providers, particularly due to complex regulatory requirements, data security concerns, and the need for uninterrupted patient care.