Frequent online shoppers, travel enthusiasts, parents seeking admissions for their wards, or the average online newsreader are all constantly plugged on to the Internet hoping to see the information they want updated on the respective websites. The only thing they can do is keep refreshing webpages and waiting for a change. Don’t you think that’s a waste of time and energy? You could instead be doing something more productive.

At any given time, most cities have an ongoing infrastructure project that seems to take longer than necessary. Snarled traffic, endless lines of cars, and the ever present orange barrel. A sign has started appearing in those situations. It says "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired those engineers." It’s clever way to remind people that progress requires patience. Similarly, great service provider businesses aren’t built overnight.

In part one I provided a high level overview of PowerShell and the potential risk it poses to networks. Of course we can only mitigate some PowerShell attacks if we have a trace, so going forward I am assuming that you followed part 1 of this series and enabled: Module Logging, Script Block Logging, Security Process Tracking (4688/4689)

Imagine someone getting the seemingly innocent ability to run a couple of commands on a machine on your network WITHOUT installing any new software, but those commands resulting in a reverse shell running on that same machine – giving the intruder a convenient outpost in your network. Now stretch your imagination even further and pretend that all of this happens without leaving any unusual traces in logs – leaving you completely in the dark.

Dashboards are pages which can show all your StatusCake operations in one place, from your uptime tests to your virus scans, making them a great tool for internal teams to get an instant view of service status as a whole. Once generated the page will be fully optimised to fit nicely on large office monitors.

The goal of Retrace's platform update is to improve system performance and resolve some outstanding defects. We incorporated a tremendous amount of feedback in order to help Retrace users produce and maintain high quality software systems. Get more details on the changes to alerts and notifications.

If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor. Sometimes they're not.