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Top 3 Ways Remote Working Has Unknowingly Increased Your Security Risk

Users across the globe have left their office buildings along with the safety and security of the workplace. This has left companies at their most vulnerable because the full scope of their security exposure is unknown. Attackers are wise to the gaps and vulnerabilities that come from remote working. Not only has the attack surface increased in recent months, but the volume of COVID-19 spam, phishing attacks and malware has also skyrocketed.

Uncovering the Manufacturing Security Risks in Today's Hybrid Working and Industry 4.0

Managing cyber risk is now a business imperative for manufacturing organizations to enjoy the benefits of Industry 4.0 and/or the move to long term hybrid working without falling victim to debilitating, expensive and public cyberattacks. As sophisticated threats including ransomware gangs and state-sponsored actors identify manufacturing as a preferred target, manufacturers struggle to respond to this threat with their current security tools and practices.

How to Monitor Microsoft IIS with OpenTelemetry

The OpenTelemetry members at observIQ are excited to add Microsoft IIS metric monitoring support to OpenTelemetry! You can now easily monitor your IIS web servers with the oIQ OpenTelemetry Collector. You can add the IIS metric receiver to any OpenTelemetry collector. This post demonstrates just one configuration for shipping metrics with OpenTelemetry components. This configuration and many other observIQ OpenTelemetry configurations are available in the oIQ Opentelemetry Collector.

Monitor FoundationDB with Datadog

FoundationDB is a distributed NoSQL database designed to support fully ACID transactions. FoundationDB uses an unbundled architecture that consists of an in-memory transaction management system, a distributed storage system, and a built-in distributed configuration system. This enables developers using FoundationDB to manage and configure each part of their database layer separately to ensure desired scalability, high-availability, and fault tolerance.

Top 6 AI Writing Tools for Students

In some majors, students do so much writing that they can't possibly do without writing assistance. Otherwise, never-ending homework is almost guaranteed to lead to burnout and loss of interest in one's degree. One of the ways to lessen the burden is to get professional help from writing services. But to buy a subscription for an AI-driven AI writing tool or two is also a great idea. Here are the top few to look out for if you're looking for writing help (in this exact order).

Now Monitor with Even More Granularity

StatusGator is a status data platform: We ingest data from almost 2,000 services by extracting and normalizing their official, public status page information. To monitor a service, you simply search through our list of thousands and its added to your dashboard. From there, you can filter to specific components of a service, such as products or regions. Now, you can subscribe to the same service more than once on a single StatusGator dashboard. What does this mean in practice?

How to write optimized & secure docker file to create docker images

How to write optimized and secure docker file to create docker image. Learn the simplest approach to Docker images and how to use them using a Docker repository, such as Docker Hub, or hosting your own private repository. What you will learn from this video: What is docker? How to write a docker file? How to write an optimized docker file? How to write a secure docker file? What about the docker repository? How to put or host docker images?

Riverbed Webinar Demo - Dependency Mapping

The worst thing about moving applications and services to the cloud is the hidden costs, as a direct result of degraded application performance and lost productivity. By mapping dependencies prior to a cloud migration, you’ll know which users and services will be affected. That means you can: This technical demo shows you how easy dependency mapping should be before you move applications and services to the cloud.

Riverbed Webinar Demo - Infrastructure Monitoring

Without knowing the status of your infrastructure, how can you troubleshoot P1 incidents quickly and reduce the cost of downtime? A slow response could disrupt your ability to monitor operations remotely and respond instantly to field conditions, meaning you can’t for example: In this technical demo, find out how we make infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting easy with Riverbed SteelCentral NetIM.

Riverbed Webinar Demo - Security Workflows

Managing aging infrastructure that’s geographically dispersed brings unique challenges to the Oil & Gas industry because obsolete technologies and automation make it particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. To combat these attacks, leveraging integrated and full-fidelity data can help you to identify the unknown, avoid business disruptions, and help you save time by: This technical overview of Riverbed’s NetProfiler Flow Monitoring solution demonstrates those security workflows, and introduces a helpful thread feed that includes SUNBURST Backdoor.