Many companies’ enterprise resource planning systems, which house their most valuable data, are still too vulnerable. What would happen if your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system were attacked? For many companies, the consequences would be devastating.

The early days of cloud computing saw people subject it to severe scrutiny. The main talking point revolved around its security and the ability of infrastructure providers to keep it secure. Regardless of the doubts, more businesses are migrating to the cloud. That's mainly because leading cloud service providers have consistently improved and upgraded their processes to secure their networks. However, even with years of improvement, the old fears remain.

Apache Kafka provides an unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Installing Apache Kafka, especially the right configuration of Kafka Security including authentication and encryption is kind of a challenge. This should give a brief summary about our experience and lessons learned when trying to install and configure Apache Kafka, the right way.

Since joining the CFEngine team in 2019 I’ve heard and read numerous times that the configuration management market is dying and becoming obsolete. While I and many others don’t personally adopt this line of thinking, I can understand why one would come to this conclusion being that we’re in an ever-changing industry and talking about solutions that have been around for decades.

In this issue of the Calico Community Spotlight series, I’ve asked Jintao Zhang from API7.ai to share his experience with Kubernetes and Calico Open Source. API7.ai is an open-source infrastructure software company that helps businesses manage and visualize business-critical traffic, such as APIs and microservices to accelerate business decisions through data.

Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen growing momentum around several disruptive trends in the cloud SIEM market. One of the most pervasive and obvious developments for Logz.io is the frequency with which we encounter customers seeking to replace dated and legacy on-premises SIEMs with a solution such as our Cloud SIEM. The traditional provider that comes up most often is LogRhythm—for numerous different reasons.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve witnessed a rapid adoption of endpoint detection and response (EDR) in the MSP space. An increasing number of managed service providers are choosing to leave behind legacy antivirus (AV) solutions in favor of EDR security. The differences between the core functions of AV and EDR are easy to understand and many see EDR as an obvious choice. However, some still believe that AV is enough because the customers they support have a low risk profile.

Ransomware was, once again, the top cyberattack type of 2021. It has been at the top of the threats list for three years in a row. Experts estimated that a ransomware attack occurred every 11 seconds last year. The average cost of ransomware recovery was estimated to be $1.85 million. These statistics explain why some have proclaimed ransomware to be a modern threat to public safety. In this blog, we’ll demystify ransomware and answer some key questions pertaining to it.

We live in a world where 83% of security professionals believe that employees have accidentally exposed customer or business-sensitive data at their organization via email (Business Wire). This sheds light on a great vulnerability faced by MSPs and internal IT businesses worldwide: once you share critical information with your end users, that data is no longer in your hands, hence your security does not extend to it anymore. If only there was a way to prevent that! Luckily, there is.