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If you follow any kind of tech news feed, you’ve surely seen stories about unwanted “guests” doing God knows what in someone’s collaboration room. I take these intrusions very seriously, but I don’t think it’s the most serious security threat we face in UC and IT overall.

New applications and workloads are constantly being added to Kubernetes clusters. Those same apps need to securely communicate with resources outside the cluster behind a firewall or other control point. Firewalls require a consistent IP, but routable IPs are a limited resource that can be quickly depleted if applied to every service.

NoSQL technology has become more popular in recent years thanks to the development of new open-source NoSQL databases that are relatively easy to install, use and integrate with web frameworks. An example of one of those popular frameworks on the internet is known as MEAN (MongoDb, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js). These NoSQL frameworks have become very popular for things such as content management, catalogs and big data in general.

Rancher 2.4, the latest release of Rancher’s Kubernetes management platform, includes a new CIS security scanning feature. The Center for Internet Security publishes more than 100 benchmarks for Kubernetes, which are considered the default standard benchmark for defining security of Kubernetes clusters. With Rancher 2.4, CIS scanning is an integrated part of the Rancher UI itself for RKE clusters. If you create or import any RKE cluster via Rancher, CIS Scan will work flawlessly.

Here’s a situation that is likely familiar to you if you work in enterprise IT. The need for strong security practices is more pressing than ever, with known vulnerabilities growing exponentially, and nearly half of companies having experienced a data breach in the last two years. At the same time, organizations face demands to deploy software faster, and more frequently. IT executives consistently identify cybersecurity and speed among their top priorities.

Careful monitoring and attention to endpoints are just two elements of a strong cybersecurity strategy for K-12 districts. Cybersecurity must be a top priority for K-12 schools. Schools need to prioritize thwarting industrious hackers who are intent on getting to the treasure trove of information and personally identifiable information (PII) schools manage.

This blog will brief on how to encrypt a text file using Azure Logic App out of the box. In this blog, we will use keys from the Azure Key Vault to encrypt the file. Consider a scenario in which I receive an e-mail with high importance along with the attachments. When it happens, I wish to back up those attachments carrying sensitive information in Azure Storage blobs in an encrypted format. As mentioned above I will use keys from Azure Key Vault to encrypt the files.

While keeping data safe from modern cyberthreats is difficult enough, you also have to keep in mind compliance with common regulations, i.e., ensuring your company’s compliance to SOX, which deals with transparency in disclosures from public companies. Nowadays, it’s not enough for businesses to rely on dismissive financial documents that satisfy the intermittent audit; you need to level up your game, and create detailed day-to-day records of activities.