Serverless is often described as the abstraction to end all abstractions. VMs and standalone containers pale in comparison stateless functions. That pristine distinction between the application’s code and its stateful data is something we all dream of. Scalability, observability and high availability can now be realized on a global scale.
We all know the latest trend in today’s technology and how Machine Learning is changing the way business decisions are made. Machine learning replaces old manual repeatable processes and provides the systems the ability to get into a mode of self-learning without being explicitly programmed.
In many cases — as you’re monitoring a particular state of a system — you probably know some steps to triage or in some cases automatically fix the situation. Let’s take a look at how we can automate this using check hooks and handlers.
Recent news has broken about a group of hackers which appears to be operating out of Russia. The group, dubbed “Silence,” is believed to be involved in the theft of over $800,000 from multiple Russian and Eastern European financial institutions. However, what is particularly notable about this group is they seem to count at least one former cyber security professional among their number.
When an incident occurs, do you shudder when either you or your team proceed to open multiple browser tabs for each of your monitoring tools? This is the picture painted by the “swivel-chair” effect, context-switching between tools to gather information needed to determine a path of resolution.
In part 5, we looked at auditing your network device logs. A decade ago, security professionals were primarily concerned about network perimeter and endpoint security. While those concerns are still valid, technological advancements have created new scenarios that need to be addressed.
