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AWS threat detection using CloudTrail and Sysdig Secure

Implementing AWS threat detection with Sysdig Secure takes just a few minutes. Discover how to improve the security of your cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudTrail and Sysdig Cloud Connector. With the rise of microservices and DevOps practices, a new level of dangerous actors threatens the cloud environment that governs all of your infrastructure. A malicious or inattentive cloud API request could have a sizable impact on availability, performance, and last but not least, billing.

Top 3 Things to Consider When Selecting a Log Analysis Platform

Effective log analysis can help you significantly reduce the time spent investigating and troubleshooting incidents. With the many different log analysis platforms available, it can be overwhelming to choose and difficult to know what to look for. In this short guide, we’ll share the top three things you should consider when selecting a log analysis platform for your business.

10+ Best Log Analysis Tools & Log Analyzers of 2020 (Paid, Free & Open-source)

Log analytics, log analysis, and log management tools have become essential in troubleshooting. With logging analysis tools – also known as network log analysis tools – you can extract meaningful data from logs to pinpoint the root cause of any app or system error, and find trends and patterns to help guide your business decisions, investigations, and security.

Best Practices for Delivering a Business-Driven Security Posture

The main focus for cybersecurity teams — moving beyond compliance — is to deliver the level of security required to manage the likelihood of a breach and the potential impact to the business. This is more effective than simply focusing on the cost of delivering security services.

Easily view your old queries with Cloud Logging recent queries

As you analyze your logs for application performance, infrastructure errors, system events, and more, sometimes you may need to look back to logs you were previously analyzing to help correlate events and identify the root cause of a problem. To help, we are excited to introduce Google Cloud Logging recent queries, to make it easy to track and run your past searches as you deep dive on your log data.

Webinar | Influencing a diverse and equitable workforce, from startups to the enterprise

In this fresh take on Allyship in the Tech space, Ingrid Hadley from ILH Possibilities and Tucker Callaway, CEO of LogDNA, will discuss the issues that the industry faces from decades of putting diversity, equity, and inclusion on the back burner. The conversation will be moderated by Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital who is a first-round investor in LogDNA.

Searching for Unknowns

When you’re troubleshooting, issues seem to fall into two categories: issues based on an alert or error message where you have a good idea where to start and ones where you have no idea what’s going on. The first issues are usually straightforward. You use the information provided in the alert or error message to search the logs and pull up the relevant event messages.

Best practices for monitoring AWS CloudTrail logs

Engineering teams that build, scale, and manage cloud-based applications on AWS know that at some point in time, their applications and infrastructure will be under attack. But as applications expand and new features are added, securing the full scope of an AWS environment becomes an increasingly complex task. To add visibility and auditability, AWS CloudTrail tracks the who, what, where, and when of activity that occurs in your AWS environment and records this activity in the form of audit logs.