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The cybercrime threatscape is constantly changing as hackers adapt and repurpose the use of many different types of tools and attack vectors, and a recent report by Kaspersky Lab indicates that the use of remote administration tools (RATs) has increased during 2018. RATs are commonly developed as legitimate software suites with bundled functionalities to support system administrators and other power users.

Since various versions of lockdown around the world kicked in, we’ve all been forced to learn how to live as if we’ve just awoke from a deep stasis into a new reality in which everything on earth works differently. It was nearly that abrupt. And if there was ever evidence of how business adaptability is related to business success, it is now.

After StatsD and Graphite weren’t able to meet their needs for metrics and monitoring, engineers at SoundCloud developed the open source event monitoring and alerting tool, Prometheus. Because it’s easy to deploy and get started with -- and on the surface seems free -- it’s become a popular part of many DevOps teams' observability stack.

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and taking advantage of the added time at home to spend ample time with your families, picking up new hobbies, workout routines, and staying active! We are in unprecedented times, and as you look around, we are all having to change our ways and adjust to the new normal in our personal and professional lives.

In this article I’m going to show you three quick and easy ways to enrich your AWS log data in Sumo Logic using fields. Fields is a feature of Sumo shipped in 2019 as part of our Kubernetes monitoring solution and is how the fluentd pipeline adds Kubernetes metadata like service and pod to each log event. It’s also really handy for enriching each log event from AWS with fields.

We’re excited to share that our Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was recently recognized as the Data Analytics Solution of the Year by Data Breakthrough. We join an impressive list of innovative solutions and companies that are solving complex and critical problems and disrupting new markets and industries. Winning this achievement further validates our vision to provide a solution that is helping modern businesses thrive in today’s Intelligence Economy.

Data classification can be broadly defined as the process of organizing and tagging data by categories so that collected data may be used and protected in the most efficient way possible. Sumo Logic is an analytics platform that can ingest almost any type of machine data. This data can be structured or unstructured, come in the form of event logs and messages or as time-series metrics. Once the data has been ingested into the platform, it can be leveraged for a wide variety of use cases.