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When you take a close look at the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) function at the heart of a successful cybersecurity program, you quickly realize that it all depends on integration. It isn’t that the individual components of the program aren’t absolutely essential. But with cyber-attacks gaining in number and sophistication, the true power of CDM is in the ability to overlay multiple datasets to create a single lens for tracking, assessing, and responding to threats.

Problem: If there are thousands of employees scattered around hundreds of places, how do you keep your organization’s network safe? Solution: You should monitor your employees wherever they’re located, and devise a standard baseline of their behavior through machine learning techniques. By using that information, you can identify anomalies and protect your network from cyberattacks.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud used by enterprise-scale companies. With a full suite of services for hosting, storage, networking and more, OCI lets customers deliver, maintain, and scale secure, highly available applications. But as your cloud infrastructure becomes more complex, monitoring the full scope of activity across your services and accounts can be increasingly difficult.

AWS Network Firewall is a firewall for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with pluggable support for third-party intrusion detection systems like Snort and Suricata. Customers use AWS Network Firewall to guard against unwanted traffic to and from their VPCs.

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms in the world, offering a wide range of products for deployment, testing, and cloud storage. Datadog is committed to maintaining an extensible monitoring solution for Azure’s growing ecosystem that doesn’t require lots of manual configuration. That’s why we are excited to announce the following enhancements to Datadog’s Azure integration.

Collection doesn’t equal detection. When your eyeballs are pulsing from the stress of looking at multiple screens, logs, performance metrics, and messages of interpretation from your team; it’s challenging not to experience your own personal system overload. “Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis.

When we talk about IT support in an organization, it’s not only about resetting passwords or fixing desktops and printers. The most important task for your IT staff is to regularly monitor your network for any emerging issues or threats, and respond on time to ensure that the problem does not interfere with your productivity. However, in an age of growing networks and small budgets, it’s a challenging task that is not easy to handle manually at all times.

If you’re running containers and Kubernetes on IBM Cloud, you can now enable the key security workflows of Sysdig Secure as a service within your IBM Cloud deployments. This makes it easier for you to implement security tools and policies to ensure your containers and your Kubernetes environment are protected and running as intended. The new container and Kubernetes security features are integrated into IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig and offered as an additional service plan.

Microservices and Kubernetes have completely changed the way we reason about network security. Luckily, Kubernetes network security policies (KNP) are a native mechanism to address this issue at the correct level of abstraction. Implementing a network policy is challenging, as developers and ops need to work together to define proper rules. However, the best approach is to adopt a zero trust framework for network security using Kubernetes native controls.

In the second part of his "Choosing SLOs that are appropriate for our customers" blog, Adam Hammond, narrates a fictional case study through Bill Palmer, one of the protagonists of The Phoenix Project and shows "How small changes to your SLOs can be SMART for your business" In our previous blog, we discussed why you need to choose SLOs that are appropriate for your customers. We don’t always write out S M A R T and list our SLOs immediately. The process is organic, and it may take a while.