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Introducing a New Splunk Add-On for OT Security

The lines Between IT and OT are blurring. With IT and Operational Technology (OT) systems converging, ensuring the security of devices, applications, physical locations and networks has never been more difficult or more important. There is a growing recognition by security professionals that they have a readiness and visibility problem in plain sight.

4 ways to save on IT costs in the asset life cycle [Part 2: Deployment]

Welcome back to our four-part series on cutting IT costs in the asset life cycle. In our last blog, we discussed challenges with spending during the asset procurement stage and learned about valuable reports that can help. In this part, we’ll talk about asset deployment and look at more reports that can help cut costs during this stage of the asset life cycle.

Running Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana on Kubernetes with Helm

Kubernetes (or “K8s”) is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this tutorial, we will be leveraging the power of Kubernetes to look at how we can overcome some of the operational challenges of working with the Elastic Stack.

[KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU recap] Getting some Thanos into Cortex while scaling Prometheus

Yesterday at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Grafana Labs software engineer Marco Pracucci, a Cortex and Thanos maintainer, teamed up with Thor Hansen, a software engineer at Hashicorp, to give a presentation called “Scaling Prometheus: How we got some Thanos into Cortex.” In their talk, the pair discussed a new storage engine they have built into Cortex, how it can reduce the Cortex operational cost without compromising scalability and performance, and lessons learned from running Cortex at s

Announcing Shared Scenarios to Promote a Culture of Reliability

Get started with Gremlin’s Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Today, Gremlin is excited to announce the ability to share a Scenario across your entire organization. This allows you to build up a library of reliability exercises that are customized to your company’s applications and technology.

Elastic Security - Unified Protection for Everyone - Aug 13, 2020 Elastic meetup

Learn how the latest security capabilities in the Elastic Stack enable interactive exploration, incident management and automated analysis, as well as unsupervised machine learning to reduce false positives and spot anomalies — all at the speed and scale your security practitioners need to defend your organisation.