The 2024 Global Digital Trust Insights survey from PwC reports that 36% of businesses have experienced a data breach that cost more than $1 million to remediate. Cyber threats are clearly on the rise and in today’s volatile threat environment, it is a matter of when - not if - a cybersecurity incident will occur. Digital adversaries are becoming more sophisticated and relying on weak links to exploit company applications and infrastructure.

The article provides a detailed guide on MySQL Command Line Client and shares useful tips on how to download, install, and get started with it. Read the tutorial to find out the best MySQL client on the market today.

Developers using the RAD Studio environment frequently encounter challenges with database engines like Oracle. This happens particularly when they have to ensure compatibility and seamless data integration or struggle with matching Delphi data types to the ones used in a database. On the other hand, Universal Data Access Components can efficiently connect to and interact with different databases, including Oracle, without additional access layers or needing extra time to build tailored connectivity.

Anyone who deals with online payments will have heard of PCI-DSS. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a comprehensive security control framework that is designed to keep payment card data safe from hackers and misuse. Merchants who accept debit or credit card payments (and service providers who process this information) will know this standard particularly well, as it’s a mandatory requirement for them to ply their trades.

Who cares about that promise? Today, I want to highlight one of the lightweight knowledge management features in CFEngine. That is, Promisees, also known as Stakeholders. Promisees are references to things that might care about a specific promise. And they can be attached to any promise. Let’s take a look at a contrived example: From the example above, we can see that the methods promise - promising to run the example_promisees bundle - has Feature Friday #21 defined as the only promisee.

Every day, employees and leaders of enterprise IT organizations make multiple decisions that affect their company’s success or failure. To stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation, an increasing number of organizations are turning to decision intelligence (DI), a relatively new field combining data science, decision theory and artificial intelligence, to augment and improve decision-making.

As enterprises advance on their cloud/modernization journeys, many teams struggle to achieve full stack observability. These teams are finding that mainframe systems are a ”critical path” for applications that deliver business-critical digital services to customers, partners, and employees.

The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. As a release manager for this version, I want to personally thank all users and the team of 200+ contributors for the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. This was truly a community effort to bring new features and improvements to an open source streaming platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide.

Apple Business Manager (ABM) is a comprehensive web-based portal designed by Apple to empower organizations in managing their Apple devices, apps, and employee access. With features like Apple automated device enrollment, ABM streamlines device deployment and management, making it easier for IT administrators to configure and secure devices remotely. It serves as a centralized platform where IT administrators can efficiently oversee and control various aspects of their Apple ecosystem.

Accidentally deleting an application is bad, but accidentally deleting all of them is a lot worse. In this post, I show you how to avoid issues like the following: Argo CD finalizers is a built-in Argo CD feature that confuses many new users and can even result in accidental deletion if you’re not careful. If you see a resource managed by Argo CD that was supposed to be deleted but isn’t, then you can almost certainly blame a finalizer.