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Efficiently Monitor the State of Redis Database Clusters

Mar 10, 2021 By Chris Tozzi In Sumo Logic
Monitoring Redis, the open source in-memory data platform, is complicated enough when you are hosting your Redis instance on just a single server. It gets even more complex when you build a Redis cluster that consists of multiple nodes and distribute your data across them. But as long as you know which metrics to prioritize and how to collect them, Redis monitoring is feasible enough. This article offers an overview of how to monitor the state of Redis database clusters.
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VPN and Firewall Log Management

Mar 10, 2021 By Nick Carstensen In Graylog

The hybrid workforce is here to stay. With that in mind, you should start putting more robust cybersecurity controls in place to mitigate risk. Virtual private networks (VPNs) help secure data, but they are also challenging to bring into your log monitoring and management strategy. VPN and firewall log management gives real-time visibility into security risks. Many VPN and firewall log monitoring problems are similar to log management in general.

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Hafnium Hacks Microsoft Exchange: Who's at Risk?

Mar 10, 2021 By Eric Thomas In logz.io

Microsoft recently announced a campaign by a sophisticated nation-state threat actor, operating from China, to exploit a collection of 0-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and exfiltrate customer data. They’re calling the previously unknown hacking gang Hafnium. Microsoft has apparently been aware of Hafnium for a while — they do describe the group’s historical targets.

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Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Crowdstrike Malware Triage

Mar 9, 2021 By Splunk In Splunk
The combination of Crowdstrike and Splunk Phantom together allows for a more smooth operational flow from detecting endpoint security alerts to operationalizing threat intelligence and automatically taking the first few response steps – all in a matter of seconds. In this video, distinguished Phantom engineer Philip Royer will walk you through an out-of-the-box playbook that you can set up in Phantom to triage malware detections from Crowdstrike and automate a variety of responses based on an informed decision by an analyst.
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A closer look at the admin API and plugin for centralized tenant adminstration and control in Grafana Enterprise Logs

Mar 9, 2021 By Matt Mendick In Grafana

To follow up on our introduction of Grafana Enterprise Logs, the latest addition to the Grafana Enterprise Stack, let’s dig into one of the key features: the admin API and admin plugin. Grafana Loki, Grafana Labs’ log aggregation project, provides the underpinnings of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL).

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Pinpointing a Memory Leak For an Application Running on DigitalOcean

Mar 9, 2021 By Loggly Team In SolarWinds
It can be difficult to track down memory leaks, especially when deploying apps on cloud-based application services. Often teams are left with restarting their apps as the only—and less than ideal—recourse to get them back up and running. So what do you do when your cloud-based app springs a memory leak, and how do you pinpoint the cause? In this article, we’ll create a Java app designed to purposely leak memory and deploy it to DigitalOcean.
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Detecting threats in AWS Cloudtrail logs using machine learning

Mar 9, 2021 By Craig Chamberlain In Elastic

Cloud API logs are a significant blind spot for many organizations and often factor into large-scale, publicly announced data breaches. They pose several challenges to security teams: For all of these reasons, cloud API logs are resistant to conventional threat detection and hunting techniques.

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Forrester TEI study: Sumo Logic's Cloud SIEM delivers 166 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 3 months

Mar 9, 2021 By Girish Bhat In Sumo Logic
We are seeing a renewed focus on accelerating digital transformation projects across business ecosystems and workflows within our customer base. These projects are enabling key business outcomes and this organizational transformation has given security and IT leaders the catalyst and opportunity to modernize security operations while eliminating on-premises debt.
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