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10 Video Shorts to Level Up Your Git Game

Mastering Git can sometimes feel like trying to untangle a bunch of super tangled – and wired (old school, I know) – headphones, not sure exactly where to pull or loop or flip next. Here are 10 Git tutorial videos that’ll help you level up your Git game. These videos are the perfect combination of fast and helpful.

The Quixotic Expedition Into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 2: How to Use Cribl Search for Intrusion Detection

For today’s IT and security professionals, threats come in many forms – from external actors attempting to breach your network defenses, to internal threats like rogue employees or insecure configurations. These threats, if left undetected, can lead to serious consequences such as data loss, system downtime, and reputational damage. However, detecting these threats can be challenging, due to the sheer volume and complexity of data generated by today’s IT systems.

The Future Skills People Need to Succeed in Tech - Civo Navigate NA 23

In this talk, Tamika Reed discusses the future skills needed to succeed in the tech industry beyond coding. As the founder of Women in Linux, she shares insights into Linux administration, infrastructure building, and investing in tech to secure a prosperous career. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the ever-evolving tech world.

Upgrading to Azure Data Lake Gen2: A Seamless Transition

Microsoft’s Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) has been a vital component for organizations aiming to build scalable and secure data lakes. As technology evolves, transitioning from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 has become increasingly important. This article aims to guide readers through the essential considerations, detailed processes, and best practices involved in making this shift.

What is Docker Swarm and How Does it Work?

For most organizations, having a stable and reliable IT infrastructure is essential for success. But managing multiple servers, databases, and applications can often be difficult and time-consuming. Container orchestration is a standard solution for handling this complexity. Docker Swarm has gained popularity as a container orchestration solution because of its simplicity and scalability.

How using a database monitoring tool helps DBAs create value for the whole organization

As the size and complexity of database estates increases, with more workloads and data being hosted on more platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud, so the appeal of third-party database monitoring tools has also grown. Their ability to provide a holistic view of an entire estate and monitor multiple databases and platforms from a single dashboard has been shown to save DBAs and IT teams many hours of time when compared to home-grown solutions.

IoT Dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus

The Internet of Things (IoT) - is a number of physical devices connected to one network that enables the system to interact with the external world. A great deal of the work surrounding IoT is monitoring, as it’s impossible to react without knowing the situation. For example, we might build a greenhouse system for agriculture that can maintain optimal conditions for growing crops. For this purpose, we need to have sensors picking up information about the temperature and humidity.

Integrating BindPlane Into Your Splunk Environment Part 2

Often it can be a challenge to collect data into a monitoring environment that does not natively support that data source. Bindplane can help solve this problem. As the Bindplane Agent is based on OpenTelemetry (and is also as freeform as possible), one can bring in data from disparate sources that are not easily supported by the Splunk Universal Forwarder.

Micro Product Demo: Ivanti Neurons for RBVM & ASOC in 252 seconds

With Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) and App Security Orchestration & Correlation (ASOC), you can move from detection of vulnerabilities and weaknesses to remediation in minutes — not months. As shown in this video from Ivanti, these offerings deliver a contextualized, risk-based view of your organization’s cybersecurity posture. They work by continuously correlating your infrastructure and applications with data ingested from scanners, threat intelligence, human pen test findings and business asset criticality to measure risk and prioritize remediation activities.