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Today, people and businesses use endpoints to accomplish everything from day-to-day tasks to large projects. Endpoints include the physical devices that connect to and communicate with a central network. They are used to manipulate data or exchange information. The number of endpoint devices that average businesses and enterprises manage is 135,000, and that number continues to grow.
Cloud transformation is real. And it's spectacular. According to global business management and consulting firm McKinsey & Co., cloud transformation is the engine driving $1 trillion in economic activity for Fortune 500 companies alone. Innovations enabled by the cloud touch nearly every aspect of running a successful business, including the development of new products and services, access to new customers and markets, frictionless transactions, streamlined communication and collaboration, and access to talent without concern for traditional geographic barriers.
The first Thursday in May is World Password Day. This is a good opportunity to look at your cybersecurity practices and privileged access strategies. As cyberattacks increase, more organizations are choosing to get some peace of mind by acquiring cyber insurance to mitigate liability and losses in case of an attack. However, getting cyber insurance may not be an easy exercise.
At Grafana Labs, we value the open source community and recognize the power of crowdsourcing. This is why we have decided to launch our very own bug bounty program, managed in-house by our own team, to encourage ethical hackers from around the world to help us find and responsibly report security vulnerabilities in Grafana Labs software.
Cloud computing revolutionized how a business can establish its digital presence. Nowadays, by leveraging cloud features such as scalability, elasticity, and convenience, businesses can deploy, grow, or test an environment in every corner of the world without worrying about building the required infrastructure.
In part 1 of this post, we talked about how Cribl is empowering security functions by giving our customers freedom of choice and control over their data. This post focuses on their experiences and the benefits they are getting from our suite of products. In a past life, I was in charge of security and operational logging at Transunion — around 2015, things started going crazy.
