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Using Puppet to detect the SolarWinds Orion compromise

SolarWinds' widely-used Orion IT platform has been the subject of a supply-chain compromise by an unidentified threat actor. The attack was discovered in December 2020, but it appears to have begun in March 2020 when the attacker used trojan malware to open a backdoor on SolarWinds customers around the world.

Dynamically Created Runtime Fields

The video contains a demonstration of the creation of an index template that defines that unknown fields will be created as runtime fields. Documents are then indexed into an index that inherits from that template, and because these documents contain fields that are not defined in the template, the fields are automatically created as runtime fields (i.e. these fields are usable for search and aggregation, but are not indexed). Runtime field is the name given to the implementation of schema on read in Elasticsearch.

Alloy Navigator mobile app expands with Change Management and Approvals

The phone app for mobile access to Alloy Navigator™ ITSM software keeps getting better and gains more features with every update. This time around, the mobile app takes on change management to help your team request infrastructure or process-related changes and take action on approval requests using phones or tablets.

Alloy Software Extends Mobile Offering with Change Management

Bloomfield, NJ – February 10th, 2021 — Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, announced today a new version of the Alloy Navigator app on Android and iPhone. The mobile app update is available now and includes several new features to support change management and approval workflows.