These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 747. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues.

Security Information Monitoring or Security Event Monitoring is part of Security Information Management. Yes, I acknowledge they are flashy names and that even experts have their differences about concept and scope. Here in Pandora FMS, flexibility is part of our name, so, hereby, I will abbreviate it as Security Monitoring. As you can see, it is short and manageable!

Do you know what digital maturity is? Do you understand how achieving it can affect your company? Do you know how to detect if you already reached it? Knowing what digital maturity is and the ability to assess it can be essential for a company. In this article we will find out what digital maturity is and see some clues that can indicate the degree of digital maturity a company has. Shall we get started?

Previously, in Pandora FMS blog, we learnt a little about the great revolution that the Discovery feature brought to Pandora FMS. This tool reduces the complexity of certain existing features in Pandora FMS, and also introduces new tools that turn this software into a complete monitoring system. In today’s episode we are going to take a walk through the bowels of one of its tools, Discovery Net Scan, which is an exponential upgrade to recon tasks. Are you ready?

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is a kind of software whose purpose is to provide organizations and corporations with useful information. “About what?” you may wonder. Well, about potential security threats related to your business networks. SIEM does this through data collation and by prioritizing all kinds of dangers or threats. In general, we already answered the question “what is SIEM?”, but how does it do it?

This 2020 is perfect to check our beloved Pandora FMS server and precisely a very important component is the database (BD). As our loyal readers already know (and if you visit us for the first time you can read the introduction to architecture on our Wiki), MariaDB is one of the databases chosen by Pandora FMS to keep all your information about your device monitoring: Let’s see how to optimize MariaDB!