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The threat and security landscape is becoming increasingly cluttered. As incidents increase, so do alerts and notifications, leading to too many alerts and too few hours to address them. Many businesses work remote and with the ever-present smartphones, we are always on the go. Yet it is essential that security teams receive and prioritize meaningful threats, but that task is easier said than done.

According to the recent Datadog report on real world container usage, Redis is among the top 5 technologies used in containerized workloads running on Kubernetes. Redis database is deployed across multi-region clusters to be Highly Available(HA) to a microservices application.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined a record €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by the European Union for violating its data privacy laws. The fine was issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which is Meta’s lead regulator in the EU, and is the largest ever levied under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018.

Static application security testing (SAST) involves analyzing source code to identify and address potential security vulnerabilities. Using SAST early in development identifies threats before they can affect a live environment. SAST is particularly important for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. These pipelines automate the integration of new code changes into the main codebase and deploy applications to production environments.

Navigating compliance requirements can be complex because there are so many of them, and there is a good chance that at least one set of standards applies to you. Standards can be for specific sectors, like The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for healthcare, or may apply more generally to organizations across industries, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Preparation prior to a breach is critical to reducing recovery time and costs.” (RSAConference) For 83% of companies, a cyber incident is just a matter of time (IBM). And when it does happen, it will cost the organization millions, coming in at a global average of $4.35 million per breach. The damage isn’t only financial, nor solely related to customer loyalty and brand equity.