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Threat Hunting with Threat Intelligence

With more people working from home, the threat landscape continues to change. Things change daily, and cybersecurity staff needs to change with them to protect information. Threat hunting techniques for an evolving landscape need to tie risk together with log data. Within your environment, there are a few things that you can do to prepare for effective threat hunting. Although none of these is a silver bullet, they can get you better prepared to investigate an alert.

Integrate FlashDrive inside your multi-cloud strategy

Your company, your infrastructure, and probably your whole business rely more and more on cloud services to provide services to your clients and your cloud infrastructure is probably a critical asset for your company. At FlashDrive our mission is to offer a simple and reliable way to deploy apps while we take care of the infrastructure and make sure your apps and services are always online and ready to scale on demand.

How Do You Overcome "We Have Always Done It This Way"?

I work in computers and my son works in manufacturing, but both of us loathe a single phrase: We have always done it this way. Please allow me to be clear on this. If you can back up this statement with “Because…”, and you list out valid points, even if I disagree with them, we’re all good. However, frequently, if you follow up this statement with the simplest of questions, “Why?”, you don’t get good answers. Usually, you’ll get a repetition of the phrase.

Lighthouse Performance Metrics: What They Are & How to Improve Them

Google has made page speed a ranking factor in mobile searches for quite sometime now. Thus measuring performance has become a key part of any web development project. Performance, accessibility and general SEO best practices are major factors in search engine rankings. Your site's performance can have a big impact on how it is perceived. It can be stated as how fast a website is, or how good the user experience is with the site.

14 Alternatives to Monitis for Ping and Web Monitoring

Monitis, once a stand alone monitoring solution, has become Teamviewer Web Monitoring. If you don’t like or don’t need the changes offered you may be looking for alternatives to Monitis. Monitoring is integral to your growing suite of web and application monitoring, and it can be difficult to find a replacement that will do everything you need in one software.

Kubernetes Logging Simplified - Pt 2: Kubernetes Events

In my first post in the Kubernetes Logging Simplified blog series, I touched on some of the ‘need to know’ concepts and architectures to effectively manage your application logs in Kubernetes – providing steps on how to implement a Cluster-level logging solution to debug and analyze your application workloads. In my second post, I’m going to touch on another signal to keep an eye on: Kubernetes events.

Using Telegraf plugins to visualize industrial IoT data with the Grafana Cloud Hosted Prometheus service

One of the biggest challenges with data visualization for complicated software systems is getting quick access to the underlying data and connecting it to some form of cloud-hosted solution. Traditionally it has required quite a bit of middleware and upfront setup with additional tooling.

Deploying infrastructure with an approval job using Terraform

If you are looking for an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, Terraform probably tops your list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to automate the deployment of changes to your infrastructure using Terraform and CircleCI workflows. The workflows will use Approval Jobs. For this project, we will deploy the infrastructure we build to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).