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The latest News and Information on CyberSecurity for Applications, Services and Infrastructure, and related technologies.

NEW Feature: Journey Pre-Actions

We have released a new upgrade to our script editor which is part of our ongoing commitment to build the best Synthetic User Journey monitoring tool on the market – Journey Pre-Actions. This upgrade is simple but will be useful for those websites that require certain prerequisites in order to allow tests such as these to be run. As with many of our features here at RapidSpike, this was born from a real-world requirement from a number of our customers.

Sysdig 2021 container security and usage report: Shifting left is not enough

The fourth annual Sysdig container security and usage report looks at how global Sysdig customers of all sizes and industries are using and securing container environments. By examining how and when organizations are implementing security in the development lifecycle, we have been able to uncover some interesting data points in this year’s report. For example, we can see that 74% of organizations are scanning container images in the build process.

Runtime Threat Detection on AWS

Join Sysdig and AWS experts to learn how to detect and respond to threats to your production applications running on services like AWS Fargate and Amazon EKS. With the rise of microservices and DevOps practices, new security threats put your infrastructure and applications at risk. Hear how to leverage signals from AWS CloudTrail and open source Falco to spot unexpected behavior, block threats, and validate compliance across your AWS environment.

2020 Magecart Timeline

In this blog, we break down the timeline of the number one hacker threat to ecommerce sites today – Magecart. The 2020 Magecart timeline includes all the significant Magecart attacks in 2020. With 4,800 formjacking attacks each month alone, this timeline only represents a small proportion of attacks reported in the public domain in 2020.

Looking Inside TLS Certificates

In the last decade, it has become increasingly important to secure websites and applications using HTTPS instead of HTTP. A GroundWork Monitor installation is no exception, so in GroundWork 8, using HTTPS to access the system is the default setup, and you can add TLS certificates to it that you generate or purchase. See Adding Certificates to HTTPS for more information on doing so.

Runtime Threat Detection on AWS

Tune into our #LinkedInLive event on Jan 12 at 10 am PST and Join Sysdig and AWS experts to learn how to detect and respond to threats to your production applications running on services like AWS Fargate and Amazon EKS. With the rise of microservices and DevOps practices, new security threats put your infrastructure and applications at risk. Hear how to leverage signals from AWS CloudTrail and open source Falco to spot unexpected behavior, block threats, and validate compliance across your AWS environment.

Getting up and running with Calico on your Rancher Kubernetes Cluster

Rancher is a great way to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across a broad range of environments, abstracting away many of the differences between the environments, and using Canal for run-anywhere networking. But what if you want to up your networking game to squeeze the most out of your clusters? In this training session you’ll learn about the various networking options available to you in Rancher, and considerations to take into account in order to select the best option for your environment.

Sentry Receives SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

No matter your business, keeping customer data secure is critical toward keeping your customer’s trust. With the rise in data breaches (and subsequent security certifications), we don’t have to tell you why you should scrutinize every cloud service that you consider — including us. To that end, we believe in being explicit with our compliance. And that includes how we pursue independent certifications like ISO, HIPAA, and now, SOC 2 Type II.