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No need for Infosec "Rock stars"

Have they somehow found unlimited budget for their every tech request? Do they have an uncanny ability to source the diamond-in-the-rough talent? Or, is it something else? As part of our inaugural State of Cybersecurity Preparedness research series, Ivanti asked 6,550+ cybersecurity professionals, leaders and end users what their cybersecurity teams will do in the next 12 months to secure their organizations.

Cloud Security - Indiana Bob's Server Closet Versus Data Centers | Ep.28 Security Insights Podcast

Welcome to Security Insights: where best-practice cybersecurity meets the real-world risks, workplaces, and roadblocks you face every day. Join Chris Goettl, head of Endpoint Security Product Management, and Ashley Stryker, your cybersecurity "rubber duck", as they review the security strategies and tactics that truly matter to the information security teams protecting organizations, agencies, and businesses like yours.

How a simple metric drives reliability culture at Slack

How do you track reliability in an organization with hundreds of engineers, dozens of daily production changes, and over 32 million monthly users? Even more, how do you do this in a way that's simple, presentable to executives, and doesn't dump a ton of extra work on to engineers' plates? Slack recently wrote about how they created the Service Delivery Index for Reliability (SDI-R), a simple yet comprehensive metric that became the basis for many of their reliability and performance indicators.

Automate Agent installation with the Datadog Ansible collection

Ansible is a configuration management tool that helps you automatically deploy, manage, and configure software on your hosts. By turning manual workflows into automated processes, you can quicken your deployment lifecycle and ensure that all hosts are equipped with the proper configurations and tools. The Datadog collection is now available in both Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Automation Hub.

Gateways and BindPlane

The BindPlane Agent is a flexible tool that can be run as an agent, an aggregator, or both. As an agent the collector will be running on the same host it's collecting telemetry from, while an aggregator will collect telemetry from other agents and forward the data on to their final destination. Here are a few of the reasons you might want to consider inserting Aggregators into your pipelines: Today we will examine these reasons, and some possible architectures for implementing aggregators.

How to create an alert rule in Grafana 10.1

You may have built an alert rule with Grafana Alerting and then grappled with routing, reconfiguring, and managing the different alerts your team set up. To address this challenge, we’ve implemented a series of improvements to set up and maintain alert rules in Grafana. Watch how the new alerting workflow works.

Securing Open Source Dependencies on Public Cloud

Aaron Whitehouse, Senior Director of Public Cloud Enablement at Canonical, explains why you need to be thinking about open source dependencies in your software pipelines. He covers three main areas of software dependency management: ESM is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Pro offering and gives developers access to approximately 30,000 packages that they can build on, confident in the knowledge that Canonical will patch high and critical vulnerabilities for up to 10 years while preserving API stability -- regardless of the upstream project's support lifecycle.