The latest News and Information on CyberSecurity for Applications, Services and Infrastructure, and related technologies.
You can now use Checkly to monitor API endpoints secured with TLS Client Certificates. This post dives into why and how you would use client certificates and mTLS (Mutual TLS) in your API infrastructure. Let's go!
Jason Chan, a key member of the Torq Advisory Board, has spent more than 20 years working in pivotal cybersecurity roles. One of his most important positions was leading the information security organization at the video streaming behemoth Netflix for more than a decade. His Netflix team set the bar extraordinarily high, focusing on sophisticated risk assessment and management, and compliance management strategies and approaches.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are an ongoing issue for communications service providers, putting critical systems at risk, undercutting service level agreements, and bringing unwanted headlines. In the first half of 2022 6 million of these attacks were reported. Some metrics of DDoS attacks in 1H2022 compared to 2H2021.
Here, in our beloved Pandora FMS blog, we have talked a big deal about computer risks. This does not mean of course that we consider ourselves to be faint-hearted or timid, but rather cautious heroes. And in order not to be alone in a battle against the evil that lurks around, today, continuing with this theme of terror and digital desolation, we bring you: some of the most dangerous computer viruses in human history!
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin. These words cannot be overstated in most business fields, especially when it comes to automation. Process automation has the potential to enhance operations in most organizations, but problems can emerge when they don’t plan and strategize around their automation objectives.
Everyone loves automation, and it can be easy to assume that the more you automate, the better. Indeed, falling short of achieving fully autonomous processes can feel like a defeat. If you don't automate completely, you're the one falling behind, right? Well, not exactly. Although automation is, in general, a good thing, there is such a thing as too much automation. And blindly striving to automate everything under the sun is not necessarily the best strategy. Instead, you should be strategic about what you do and don't automate.
From harmful malware attacks to data breaches, there are many problems that will arise if you don’t manage your endpoints. As a matter of fact, a report on endpoint security by Expert Insights states, “68% of organizations have experienced one or more endpoint attacks that successfully compromised data and/or their IT infrastructure.” Protect your organization from threats by learning more about and implementing endpoint security management.
Today’s Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) are trying to grow their business quickly, improving margins and onboarding customers with high-quality tool sets that scale with the business. This means reducing cost, improving onboarding time and building the next generation of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to deal with threats that are increasing in volume and sophistication.
