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Meet the Tech Evangelist Group!

We're excited to announce that we have a new customer-facing tech team on board, the SquaredUp Tech Evangelist Group! As a team, Adam, Shawn and Sameer will be producing cool, nerdy tech content about all things monitoring, as well as kick-starting various initiatives to help customers make the best of SquaredUp. These include in-depth tech guides, on-site customer visits and many things in between – read on to find out more!

5 Ways to Detect Malicious Activity & Protect Your Kubernetes Workloads

Organizations are rapidly moving more and more mission-critical applications to Kubernetes and the cloud to reduce costs, achieve faster deployment times, and improve operational efficiencies. But security teams struggle to achieve a strong security posture with Kubernetes and cloud-based resources because of the inability to apply conventional security practices in the cloud environment.

CFEngine 3.15 LTS released

Today marks a new milestone for CFEngine, with the release of the new CFEngine 3.15.0 LTS. This is the newest Long Term Supported CFEngine series, introducing a lot of great stuff. The biggest new feature in CFEngine 3.15 is Federated Reporting, which we will cover later in this blog post, but there are many other new improvements as well. If you are interested to learn more, schedule training, or hear about pricing options, feel free to reach out to us!

Rancher Security: 2019 Recap

It’s that time of year again, the time for retrospective articles and “Top 10 of the Year” posts. We decided to focus our recap on how CVEs and changes in the threat landscape affected Kubernetes in 2019, and what changes that brought about inside of Rancher. Throughout 2019, solutions across the CNCF stack prioritized security and brought it to the forefront of both mind and action.

9 common organizational charts, demystified

Choosing the best organizational structure for your company, division, or team is a lot like picking out a new car. At the most basic level, you’re always looking for something road-worthy – something that can take you (and your passengers) from point A to point B without a hitch. But beyond that, there are many other options to consider. Automatic or manual? Four-wheel drive? Built-in GPS? Leather interior?