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What is CyberArk?

Cyber security has continued to gain importance worldwide as hacking and malware threats are rising. Global losses associated with hacking and cybercrime reached $1 trillion in 2020, which has inspired the expansion of the information security industry, with revenue projected to hit more than $170 billion in 2022. As a publicly traded data security firm, CyberArk offers identity management services to protect your company.

How Wiz and Torq Combine to Mitigate Existential Cloud Security Threats

A single cloud security incident can stop an enterprise in its tracks, sometimes resulting in irreparable damage to its operation, reputation, and customer loyalty. One key strategy for preventing such incidents is combining complementary cybersecurity tools to defeat threats at scale. A coherent Cyber Security Incident Response Planning (CSIRP) approach requires enterprises to select and integrate the right tools before a security incident occurs.

Take Network Monitoring to the Extreme with WhatsUp Gold/Flowmon Duo

Network monitoring is the key to efficient, reliable operation, as well as performance and security. The deeper and more broadly you can monitor (yes, you want to do both), the better your network operates. What if you could combine a superstar in network infrastructure monitoring with the champion of network flow monitoring? You can. Progress, owner of WhatsUp Gold, recently acquired Kemp and their market-leading Flowmon solution.

Is Your Mac Spying On You? Maybe It Should be

What would you call software installed on your Mac, that’s hidden from sight, difficult to remove, and that silently monitors everything that happens on the system? You might call it spyware, or a RAT (Remote Access Trojan), and start thinking about how best to get rid of it. However, that same description can also be applied to the software that’s used to keep your machine safe from such threats.

How Nonprofits Can Protect Users' Safety Online

Running a charity site today presents some notable challenges. It's difficult to stand out, for instance: the internet is saturated with websites of all shapes and sizes, each of which is promoted in myriad ways, and most of those are profit-driven - meaning they can invest some of the money they make into further marketing. Charities have to work with limited resources.

Understanding Kubernetes Evicted Pods

What does it mean that Kubernetes Pods are evicted? They are terminated, usually the result of not having enough resources. But why does this happen? Eviction is a process where a Pod assigned to a Node is asked for termination. One of the most common cases in Kubernetes is Preemption, where in order to schedule a new Pod in a Node with limited resources, another Pod needs to be terminated to leave resources to the first one.