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The ability of an actor to remain undiscovered or obfuscating its doings when driving a malicious campaign usually affects the gains of such campaigns. These gains can be measured in different items such as time to allow completion of operations (exfiltration, movement of compromised data), ability to remain operative before take down notices are issued, or ability to obtain gains based on for-profit driven crimeware (DDoS for hire, Crypto mining).

When thinking about serverless applications, one thing that comes to mind immediately is efficiency. Running code that gets the job done as swiftly and efficiently as possible means you spend less money, which means good coding practices suddenly directly impact your bottom line. How does logging play into this, though? Every logging action your application takes is within the scope of that same performance evaluation.

I’m a bit of a data nerd. And like many fortunate people, I’m still working from and generally staying home and have a lot spare time on my hands. So what does that combination result in? Graphs!

Two years ago we introduced Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring and Splunk Insights for Infrastructure on the AWS Marketplace as a Pay-As-You-Go Amazon Machine Image, where you could initiate an instance and pay hourly to use these products after a 15-day trial. Assessing our portfolio, we are discontinuing these offerings to focus on differentiating capabilities, namely the ability to search and apply machine learning to your data in addition to visualizing insights.

You may be surprised to learn that a particular malware is responsible for data theft in over 20% of financial institutions and other verticals in 2019. Watering hole attacks involve a web server that hosts files or applications where the website or files on the site become weaponized with malware. While recent news cycles have shined a spotlight on ransomware and crimeware, malware is not a new concept.

Efficient project planning is an important skill for project managers. It helps you get things done on time, make iterations, and develop contingency plans for emergencies.

People throw the terms “availability” and “uptime” around a lot, but depending on what you’re monitoring, the definition of these terms may change. In this article we use the narrow definition, accessible, to explore the various options Uptrends has for checking availability on websites, APIs, and servers.

The Azure Functions team has yet again joined us for another monthly live webcast by staying remote and safe. In this live webcast, along with Jeff Hollan, Anthony and Matthew joined us to give a picture of the latest happenings in Azure Functions space. Without any further delay, let us jump in as there are tons of update are awaiting.

Cloud environments like AWS can be a challenge for security monitoring services to operate in since assets tend to dynamically appear and disappear. Making matters more challenging, some asset identifiers that are stable in traditional IT environments like IP addresses are less reliable due to their transient behavior in a cloud service like AWS. Amazon GuardDuty protects your AWS environment with intelligent threat detection and continuous monitoring.