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The NIST Cybersecurity Framework: 5 core functions and how to align with them using AD360

The Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This framework was created through collaboration between various private-sector and government experts to provide high-level taxonomy of cybersecurity outcomes and a methodology to assess and manage those outcomes.

New free tool alert! Try the HTTP Response Header Check

We did it again. We just published a new free tool, the HTTP Response Header Check. This handy little gadget quickly grabs your HTTP response headers for your review. It sounds simple because it is. But as every good DevOps pro knows, it is always a good idea to check your headers from time to time.

Security Best Practices for Node.js

Because a lot of systems are connected to the web these days (or, at least, communicate/integrate with it at some level), companies are giving more and more attention to web security. Web security usually comes to public attention when certain events reach the news, for example, security leakages, hacker activities, and/or data-stealing over big companies, some of them really large (like Google, LinkedIn, etc.).

10 filter patterns that are helpful for managing your logs

Log files, which are the records of everything that has happened in your server, application, or framework, are generally unfiltered and huge. Going on for pages, these plain text files are packed with tons of information and are the initial go-to place for any troubleshooting. However, the challenge lies in reading, understanding, and interpreting log files, and ultimately pulling out the right piece of information required for analysis.

Keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime

Making your organization more transparent is not always an easy process. In our latest blog post, Adam Hammond, shares some tips and tools that can help you get started when it comes to keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime.The core message is that you need to make communication a cultural pillar of your organization.

Scaling Prometheus: How we're pushing Cortex blocks storage to its limit and beyond

In a recent blog post, I wrote about the work we’ve done over the past year on Cortex blocks storage. Cortex is a long-term distributed storage for Prometheus. It provides horizontal scalability, high availability, multi-tenancy and blazing fast query performances when querying high cardinality series or large time ranges.

21 new ways we're improving observability with Cloud Ops

We’ve heard from customers about how important it is to be able to reliably operate your applications and infrastructure running on Google Cloud. In particular, observability is critical to reliable operations. To help you quickly gain insight into your Google Cloud environment, we’ve added 21 new features to Cloud Operations, the observability suite we launched earlier this year, which gives you access to all our operations capabilities directly from the Google Cloud Console.

Logstash CSV: Import & Parse Your Data [Hands-on Examples]

The CSV file format is widely used across the business and engineering world as a common file for data exchange. The basic concepts of it are fairly simple, but unlike JSON which is more standardized, you’re likely to encounter various flavors of CSV data. This lesson will prepare you to understand how to import and parse CSV using Logstash before being indexed into Elasticsearch.

How to Provision Cloud Infrastructure

One of the best things about cloud computing is how it converts technical efficiencies into cost-savings. Some of those efficiencies are just part of the tool kit, like pay-per-use Lambda jobs. Good DevOps brings a lot of savings to the cloud, as well. It can smooth out high-friction state management challenges. Sprucing up how you provision cloud services, for example, speeds up deployments. That’s where treating infrastructure the same as workflows from the rest of your codebase comes in.