COVID-19 has impacted every single aspect of our lives as we knew them. Almost overnight, businesses had to create an entirely new working environment, parents had to become teachers and essential workers become the real heroes. As time goes on, more and more businesses are transitioning to 100% remote workforces.
At Splunk, we’re proud to employ some of the top security analysts in the industry. On any given day, they’re investigating security incidents, triaging alerts and identifying threats so our systems and data — as well as those of our customers — remain secure. But what, exactly, do Splunk security analysts do? And what are some of their biggest challenges?
The wait is finally over. The first episode of our weekly podcast series aimed to alleviate all your remote work hassles is out. The efficacy of remote operations depends on a robust virtual private network (VPN). VPNs help facilitate remote work by acting as a conduit between an organization’s remote workers and its private network. VPNs ensure a safe passage for the transmission of business-critical data and grants end users access to on-premises services to maintain operational continuity.
Things have been busy with the Loki project! Once again, we waited too long between releases, and there are so many new things I won’t be able to list them all. But that won’t stop me from trying, so let’s get to it. For a change of pace, instead of listing interesting PRs, I’m going to talk through Loki’s components and mention the changes in more of a paragraph style. Let’s see how this goes.
IT monitoring is a complex field with several approaches to manage monitoring and alerts. Most of the current monitoring solutions provide Static Threshold-Based alerting, where IT Operations staff are notified when resource utilization breaches the defined threshold. The problem with Static Thresholds is that these are manually adjusted, and tuning it to meet the specific environment and needs of an organization is a major challenge for IT Operations teams.
One of the big problems we hear about with Azure is managing costs and understanding where the money is being spent. In fact, when we launched SquaredUp for Azure back in 2019, the ability to visualize costs quickly became one of the most popular features. It helped our customers (and ourselves, too) get a grip on Azure costs – by making it easy to identify under-utilized resources and take the appropriate action to reduce costs.
Using a Linux Domain controller such as Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA? If so then the fields are a bit different than some other LDAP interfaces, which makes it difficult for some to connect to for authentication. Here is a quick how-to on setting up Puppet Enterprise with authentication from FreeIPA. I am assuming that you already have Puppet Enterprise installed with eyaml configured. If not, then you may want to visit these prerequisites.
The N+1 Queries Problem is a perennial database performance issue. It affects many ORM’s and custom SQL code, and Django’s ORM is not immune either. In this post, we’ll examine what the N+1 Queries Problem looks like in Django, some tools for fixing it, and most importantly some tools for detecting it. Naturally, Scout is one of those tools, with its built-in N+1 Insights tool.
If you’re a gamer, you probably know how immersed you can get in your favorite game. Or if you’re the parent or partner of a gamer, you probably know what it’s like to try to get the attention of someone who is in “gaming mode.” Creating worlds and enriching players’ lives is in Ubisoft’s DNA.
