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Nine. Million. Dollars. Well, $9.44 million to be exact for your average data breach according to the latest report from IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022. From 2017 to 2022, that number has only continued increasing from $7.35 million, an almost 30% increase in just five years. For a small company, a security breach can be the difference between staying open or closing the business. And for a Fortune 500 enterprise, that cost will be more severe.
Kubernetes is a highly popular and widely used container orchestration platform designed to deploy and manage containerized applications at a scale, with strong horizontal scaling capabilities that can support up to 5,000 nodes; the only limit in adding nodes to your cluster is your budget. However, its vertical scaling is restricted by its default configurations, with a cap of 110 pods per node.
Have you ever had to debug an environment and found it hard to understand exactly what had changed? In the worst case scenarios you have to figure this out during high-pressure situations, like when an outage or regression has happened. Digging through platform logs and cloud consoles is a real nightmare, and it’s often futile because the information has disappeared.
On behalf of the Canonical confidential computing team, I am happy to announce the limited preview of Ubuntu Confidential VMs with Intel TDX on Microsoft Azure. As part of the DCev5-series and ECesv5-series VMs, they’re available for you to try today! This exciting development is an important milestone in Ubuntu’s journey to power the confidential public cloud of the future.
We’re excited to announce an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike and introduce CrowdStream, a powerful new native platform capability that enables customers to seamlessly connect any data source to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
This year, organizations around the world are focused on strengthening their endpoint security, especially since the average cost of data breaches is rising significantly. IBM’s data breach report confirms that the average global cost of a data breach is 4.35 million, and the U.S. average cost is 9.44 million. Endpoint security is a part of a cybersecurity program that prevents threats and attacks from damaging an IT environment.
