In organizations which uses a Windows server environment, the vast majority of authentication and access control processes are managed within Active Directory. As a central and critical component for managing organizational IT resources, Active Directory logs contain valuable information which must be closely monitored and analyzed.

What is log monitoring and log analysis? Both are crucial parts of log management and related in many capacities, but by definition, the two actually have different core meanings.

Addressing compliance requirements for monitoring and logging can be a challenge for any organization no matter how experienced or skilled the people responsible are. Compliance requirements are often not well understood by technical teams and there is not much instruction on how to comply with a compliance program. In this article, we’ll discuss what some of these new compliance programs mean, why they are important, and how you can comply with your logging and monitoring system.

The world is changing. The way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we secure the entPuppet is a software configuration management and deployment tool that is available both as an open source tool and commercial software. It’s most commonly used on Linux and Windows to pull the strings on multiple application servers at once. It includes its own declarative language to describe system configurations.

The world is changing. The way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we secure the enterprise are all vastly different today than they were 20 years ago. This natural evolution of technology innovation is powered by the cloud, which has not only freed teams from on-premises security infrastructure, but has also provided them with the resources and agility needed to automate mundane tasks.

Here are a few updates you can look forward to in LogDNA’s log management and analysis features.

Facing the growing threat of cybercrime, and to answer compliance requirements, more and more organizations are looking at their DevOps and Operations teams to implement security. The term “security”, however, often triggers negative feelings among engineers. The reason for this is that security is associated with siloed, sequential and complicated processes — all roadblocks to fast development and deployment.

We founded Logz.io four years ago with a vision to provide a platform for engineers like us to operate the next generation of applications and infrastructure. As engineers, we experienced firsthand the challenges of running large-scale, open-source tools and the frustration of dealing with slow, proprietary tools which were not designed to support the rapidly changing technology stack we operated.

Over the years, automation has become a key component in the management of the entire software release lifecycle. Automation helps teams get code from development into the hands of users faster and more reliably. While this principle is critical to your source code and continuous integration and delivery processes, it is equally essential to the underlying infrastructure you depend on.

Containers provide a nifty solution to package up applications along with their dependencies, and for the whole encapsulated process to be run on a host system. This technology is undeniably popular due to its ability to allow developers to create flexible, scalable, reliable solutions in a quicker amount of time. It has enabled more freedom in choosing the technology we use in our applications and has brought development and production environments closer to parity.