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With the newest updates to the StatusCake Mobile app we are adding further functionality to create a mobile monitoring experience that’s useful for all!

Companies are generating massive amounts of data every minute. It’s impossible, unrealistic, and cost-prohibitive for analysts to spot every threat. That’s why even though breaches are in decline year over year, the first quarter of 2018 saw 686 breaches that exposed 1.4 billion records through hacking, skimming, inadvertent Internet disclosure, phishing, and malware.

One of the greatest threats to a log management solution is load. As log volume increases, the ability for a solution to process each event decreases. Given enough load, this will result in dropped messages and data loss.

Uptime Robot sends HEAD requests for HTTP monitors and GET request for keyword monitors by default (and, this is a good default setting for most monitors). So, here comes the HTTP method selection which enables us to choose the method, send the parameters to be sent (if needed) and also decide if the data will be sent as JSON or not.

In our last blog post, we learned what the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is, and examined the DDoS picture globally. As we walked through some recent and well-known cases, we also surveyed a range of attack types and drilled down to specific examples. In this article, we’ll study the mitigation techniques you’ll need to resist these attacks. You’ll learn: 1. How to avoid becoming a bot; 2. How to prepare your own network for the possibility of an attack and finally; 3.

According to Best Practices for Managing AWS Access Keys, if you must utilize IAM access keys, it is best to remove or disable unused keys. This will close possible security holes in your AWS account. Today, we’re happy to announce a new action to help with this task: Disable Unused IAM Access Keys. This new action will iterate through the IAM users in your AWS account, determine when any access keys were last used, and if they were not used inside a configurable threshold, disable the keys.

Citrix deployments – needless to say but let me say it nevertheless – are complicated. There are too many moving parts, various dependencies, and myriad configurations and customizations. Ultimately, organizations expect seamless connectivity and access to virtualized applications and desktops for their employees and partners whenever and wherever.

It’s rare to find a business today that doesn’t rely on digital technologies and services. Retail is one example: Whether customers are buying online or in store, completing a transaction requires a website or point-of-sale system. The entire supply chain relies on IT services to deliver goods on time, to the right locations, and just like any company today, every department —from development and marketing, to HR and business services—has a critical tech stack.

The term Data Center Monitoring is used in the communications plan of some companies as if it were a product specially designed for this area. However, when it comes to these ideas we believe that they actually refer to a summary of monitoring tools facilities that are intended to support the work of Data Centre managers.