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Five Considerations for Choosing Self-Managed Automation vs. SaaS Automation

Sometimes heritage is better than new. Some people favor Coca-Cola Classic over New Coke, and heirloom tomatoes over regular tomatoes. Some Luddites might say the same thing about cloud computing. “I won’t put my (app/data) in the cloud! It will be more (secure | reliable | cheaper) if I run it myself in my own data center.”

Change in behavior: Directory permissions and the execute bit

rxdirs has provided a convenient default when setting permissions recursively. When enabled (the default prior to version 3.20.0) a promise to grant read access on a directory is extended to also include execution since quite commonly if you want to read a directory you also want to be able to list the files in the directory. However, the convenience comes with the cost of complicating security reviews since the state requested on the surface is more strict than what is actually granted.

Cribl Edge: Nobody Puts Data in the Corner

Has this ever happened to you: ‘I have too many agents to help me collect data for processing into separate SIEMs. It’s a pain to make any changes to their configuration!’ Or perhaps this one: ‘I have a large kubernetes deployment, but I just can’t seem to get metrics and logs out of it and into my SIEM or TSDB!’ Fear not, weary administrators, Cribl Edge is here!

4 trends shaping the future of federal government work

At ServiceNow's annual Federal Forum in March 2022, more than 1,400 government leaders and contractors convened for the first time since the start of the pandemic. We recently surpassed the two-year mark of a rapid shift to remote work, and federal leaders reflected on the widespread modernization that took place during this period. Although the number of federal employees returning to offices continues to rise, according to Axios, the world of work has changed dramatically.

Cybersecurity Risk Management: Introduction to Security Analytics

It’s mid-morning. You’re scanning the daily news while enjoying a coffee break. You come across yet another headline broadcasting a supply chain data breach. Your heart skips a quick, almost undetectable, beat. You have the technology in the headline in your stack. You set aside your coffee and begin furiously scanning through the overwhelming number of alerts triggered across all your technologies.

Ten Tips to Creating a Website That Will Improve Prospect Conversion and Engagement, Part 1

There is a great deal of marketing guidance out there on what MSPs can do to help drive new leads into their organization. One thing that is going to make all the difference in the world between a prospect reaching out and engaging with you, or clicking that back button, is making sure your website is the very best that it can be. Many marketing experts agree that the most important asset MSPs have at their disposal from a marketing perspective is their website.

Splunk Indexer Vulnerability: What You Need to Know

A new vulnerability, CVE-2021-342 has been discovered in the Splunk indexer component, which is a commonly utilized part of the Splunk Enterprise suite. We’re going to explain the affected components, the severity of the vulnerability, mitigations you can put in place, and long-term considerations you may wish to make when using Splunk.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.5 Release | Cross-Datacenter HA Monitoring

Unlock business benefits by monitoring your VMware‘s High Availability infrastructure. Secure, protect, and manage your VMware environment and digital workspaces based on advanced analytics. The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager provides a complete and easy-to-set-up VMware monitoring suite. Auto-Discovery, out-of-the-box metrics, graphs, reports, and enriched alert content help you spot and solve issues before they affect the system.