Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2024

Top 7 Features to Consider for Office Security Locks

In today's fast-paced business environment, ensuring the protection of sensitive information and valuable assets is of utmost importance. When selecting file cabinet locks to safeguard your office space, choosing appropriate file cabinet locks is of equal importance - these will not only safeguard confidential documents but will also contribute towards creating a safer workplace environment.

Feature Friday #17: Tags for inventory and reporting

Let’s talk about tags and how they can be useful for Inventory and Reporting. If you have been following along with the Feature Friday series you already heard about using tags to find currently defined classes, variables and bundles, but they are also very useful for reporting. In CFEngine Enterprise the inventory and attribute_name tags are special. A variable or class tagged with inventory becomes visible in the Inventory subsystem in Mission Portal with the name given in the attribute_name tag.

How to Customize Your Shopify Store with Professional Services

When it comes to e-commerce, having a visually appealing and personalized online store can significantly impact your business's success. While Shopify provides an excellent foundation for creating an online store, there may be times when you want to take customization to the next level. This article will explore how integrating professional services into your Shopify store can enhance its functionality, design, and user experience. By implementing these tips and tricks, you can create a unique and tailored shopping experience for your customers.

What Is a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)?

Most businesses are aware that protecting sensitive data and maintaining robust cybersecurity measures is more critical than ever. Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) offer specialized services to help businesses safeguard their networks from cyber threats. By outsourcing security management to an MSSP, companies can benefit from expert monitoring, threat detection, and rapid incident response, ensuring their data remains secure.

How Smart Facilities Are Enhancing Operational Efficiency in Defence Organisations

Whether a defence force is involved in disaster relief, domestic security, or active combat, efficiency is necessary to offset risk and guarantee success in the field. In recent decades, defence organisations have been following the lead of digitally transformed civilian agencies and businesses in managing their resources, leading to remarkable efficiency gains.

AppSec Decoded: How to Implement Security in DevOps

In the realm of software development, the requirement for speedy delivery often conflicts with software security. The technology of DevSecOps bridges this gap by using security practices in DevOps techniques. With the majority of data being made and processed over the internet, it's important to safeguard your digital infrastructure from dangerous cyber attacks. For that, modern Application Security (AppSec) is used. In this guide, we will learn comprehensively about AppSec with DevOps and more.

Security Best Practices for Your Node.js Application

The widespread adoption of Node.js continues to grow, making it a prime target for XSS, DoS, and brute force attacks. Therefore, protecting your Node application from possible vulnerabilities and threats is crucial. In this guide, we'll uncover common security threats and explore best practices for preventing them. You don't have to be a cybersecurity expert to implement fundamental security measures for your Node.js application. So, are you ready? Let's go!

What you need to know about regreSSHion: an OpenSSH server remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)

On 1 July 2024 we released a fix for the high-impact CVE-2024-6387 vulnerability, nicknamed regreSSHion, as part of the coordinated release date (CRD). Discovered and responsibly disclosed by Qualys, the unauthenticated, network-exploitable remote code execution flaw affects the OpenSSH server daemon (sshd) starting with version 8.5p1 and before 9.8p1.

Stay Safe at Work: 6 Proven Tips to Avoid Accidents

Workplace safety is more than just a regulatory requirement; it's an essential aspect of maintaining a productive and healthy work environment. Accidents can happen in any workplace, from construction sites to office settings. Understanding how to prevent these mishaps can save lives and improve overall job satisfaction. In this blog post, we will explore six proven tips to help you stay safe at work. Whether you're an employer looking to safeguard your employees or an employee wanting to ensure your safety, these tips are designed to be practical and easy to implement. Let's get started on the path to a safer work environment.

Accidental Data Breach: Your Quick Fix Guide

Quickly learn how to handle an accidental data breach with our guide. Discover steps to mitigate damage, strengthen security, and effectively rebuild trust. I remember the day our system got breached. Data breaches can be extremely alarming, making you feel like everything is falling apart. But, guess what? You can learn a lot from such experiences about how to handle them like a pro! We'll share those insights next.

10 Steps to Optimize Software Operations with AI

How can businesses maintain a competitive edge and ensure operational efficiency? The answer lies in optimizing software operations with Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging AI, companies can automate processes, enhance decision-making, and significantly improve their software operations. Are you curious about how AI can benefit your business? This guide aims to provide a comprehensive roadmap for integrating AI into your software operations, addressing common concerns and questions from IT managers, software engineers, and business leaders.

How To Protect Against Malicious Code

Malicious code, also known as malware, is any piece of software that deliberately damages your systems or causes them to malfunction (as opposed to a software bug that may unintentionally do these things). The reasons for this may be simple mischievousness, curiosity, or a proof of skill for bragging rights.

Configuring WhatsUp Gold for SMTP and OAuth 2.0 Email Authentication

This video shows the steps to register WhatsUp Gold as a client application with Microsoft Azure for OAuth 2.0 authentication. Then, it walks through the process to configure your WhatsUp Gold email settings to use OAuth 2.0 as your authentication method.

Improving Patch and Vulnerability Management with Proactive Security Analysis

Vulnerability management is the continuous process of identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT infrastructure, while patch management is the process of accessing, testing, and installing patches that fix bugs or address known security vulnerabilities in software applications. Vulnerability management and patch management are crucial SecOps processes that protect IT assets against cyber threats and prevent unauthorized access to secure systems.

What is Privacy Preservation, and Why Is It Important

Let's talk Privacy! In this digital age, where everything from shopping to chatting happens online, keeping our details safe is more crucial than ever. We've all heard horror stories about identity theft and data leaks, right? That's why privacy preservation is a big deal-it's all about keeping our data under lock and key from those we don't want snooping around.

Install and uninstall packages based on conditions

For security reasons, you generally want to uninstall talk, samba, and apache2 in your infrastructure. However, on your webservers, which have the webserver CFEngine class defined, you might want Apache to be installed. With the conditional-installer module, you can put talk,samba,apache2 in the list of packages to uninstall. And in the list of packages to install, you can put apache2 with the condition webserver. Hence, the module will install apache2 on your webservers and uninstall it everywhere else.