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Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.

Trust, understanding, and love

As Charles highlights in his Financial Services Predictions blog, operational resilience is critical. The regulatory drive for defining, measuring and improving operational resilience is clear within Europe, outlined by EU DORA and UK FCA / PRA guidelines. The organisations who embrace this change can capitalise on real opportunities in the coming years; specifically, the opportunity to use data-driven insights to improve customer experience and proactively resolve issues before customer impact.

Integrating OpenTelemetry into a Fluentbit environment using BindPlane OP

Fluentbit is a popular logs and metrics collector used for monitoring anything from virtual machines to containerized applications. With the rise of BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry, it is not uncommon for organizations to begin replacing Fluentbit, or integrating OpenTelemetry with Fluentbit. An organization may have hundreds or thousands of Fluentbit agents deployed to their endpoints but they want to manage the pipeline using BindPlane OP.

Reduce compliance TCO by using Grafana Loki for non-SIEM logs

Compliance is a term commonly associated with heavily regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunication. But in reality, it touches nearly every business today as governments and other regulatory agencies seek to enact tighter controls over the use of our collective digital footprint. As a result, more and more companies need to retain a record of every single digital transaction under their control.

Best Practices for SOC Tooling Acquisition

Your Security Operations Center (SOC) faces complex challenges for keeping corporate data safe and in the right hands everyday. The right tooling is critical for success. Deciding when—and how—to make investments in SOC tooling is complex and challenging across organizations. There’s a ton of vendor spin out there and it’s important to understand what’s real and what isn’t.

ChatGPT praise and trepidation - cyber defense in the age of AI

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, so much so that we are all left guessing how far this will go. And it’s not a trivial question, as it relates to the future of humanity itself. On one extreme, technology is increasing rapidly enough to synthesize some of the most fundamental parts of our existence—communicating naturally with one another. That can be a scary thought.

What is a log management tool?

Log management and analysis tools provide you real-time visualization of how your users are interacting with your apps and systems. Many of these log management tools include a sophisticated visual dashboard to immediately analyze data. They also offer your DevSecOps teams deeper insights and possibilities to enhance code quality, boost productivity and reduce risks. What should the best log management tools do for your team to be successful?

What is log management, and why is it important?

Logs are like digital footprints or a letter that developers write to themselves for the future. They track every action or event that takes place within your software, applications and IT infrastructures. They provide important information such as when an action took place, host name, type of action, application used and more.