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Hard drive crash. Ransomware. Equipment failure. Accidental deletion. Theft. There are plenty of reasons why end users want to have a secure and up-to-date backup of their most important files. And there are just as many approaches to backup and recovery as there are reasons to want it in place. In this article, we’ll discuss practical strategies and best practices for backing up important data, including consumer-level options and how to get the most from an enterprise-grade backup solution.

In today’s era of “Work from anywhere”, Data Security & Data Encryption has become a vital security step for organisations world-wide and a key component for security compliance. BitLocker is one of the popular Software Stacks for enforcing encryption on all devices & drives. Exponential complexity for managing the encryption compliance and the backup of the recovery keys for all devices in the organization has increasingly become a key challenge for EUC Professionals.

Throughout KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022, our team was able to speak to over 100 people from the cloud-native community to learn more about their thoughts and experience of the event. This blog will explore what the community thought was the hot topic of discussion at KubeCon + CNC NA 2022, which includes topics such as security, cost, and developer experience. Check out the full video below.

Cribl, a leader in open observability, today released Cribl Search, the first federated query engine focused on observability and security data. Search flips the observability market on its head, dispatching queries to where the data is already at rest. Cribl Search was engineered to let you search data-in-place, whether the data remains at the edge, in the stream, in the observability lake, at the endpoint, or even in existing search tools.

You can now use Checkly to monitor API endpoints secured with TLS Client Certificates. This post dives into why and how you would use client certificates and mTLS (Mutual TLS) in your API infrastructure. Let's go!

Jason Chan, a key member of the Torq Advisory Board, has spent more than 20 years working in pivotal cybersecurity roles. One of his most important positions was leading the information security organization at the video streaming behemoth Netflix for more than a decade. His Netflix team set the bar extraordinarily high, focusing on sophisticated risk assessment and management, and compliance management strategies and approaches.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are an ongoing issue for communications service providers, putting critical systems at risk, undercutting service level agreements, and bringing unwanted headlines. In the first half of 2022 6 million of these attacks were reported. Some metrics of DDoS attacks in 1H2022 compared to 2H2021.

Here, in our beloved Pandora FMS blog, we have talked a big deal about computer risks. This does not mean of course that we consider ourselves to be faint-hearted or timid, but rather cautious heroes. And in order not to be alone in a battle against the evil that lurks around, today, continuing with this theme of terror and digital desolation, we bring you: some of the most dangerous computer viruses in human history!

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin. These words cannot be overstated in most business fields, especially when it comes to automation. Process automation has the potential to enhance operations in most organizations, but problems can emerge when they don’t plan and strategize around their automation objectives.