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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? All the effort and time that went into creating and driving traffic to your site would be for nothing if the visitor lands on your page and doesn’t take any action.

Data Loss Prevention and Security Basics You Need to Know

Cyberattacks are the “buzz word” that you hear when a company’s data has been breached. Sometimes the breach results in data being released on the internet. Other times, the hacker holds the data ransom in exchange for a large monetary payout. Data loss prevention and protection should be at the top of your list. Your data, after all, should be considered one of your most valuable business assets.

How to build a security team without becoming the enemy

Unsurprisingly, a lot of people say they don’t like working with security teams. Security teams often have ridiculous requirements, and it can be painful for everyone when releases get delayed. I’ve been guilty of thinking the same thing, so when I was approached at my job at Doximity to build a security team (without prior experience doing so), I knew I wanted to take a different approach.

How InfluxDB Helps Retail Organizations Prepare for the Cyber Five Weekend

The five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday is known as the Cyber Five Weekend (also known as Cyber 5). Forbes estimates that people spent $3.7 billion on Thanksgiving Day in 2018. They approximate that over 165 million people shopped over the entire weekend. This is a 16.5% increase year over year. On Black Friday, people spent $6.2 billion online, with a 23.6% year-over-year growth.

Grafana: Running Chaos Engineering experiments with Gremlin and Grafana

During this webinar you'll learn: Complex systems fail in complex and unexpected ways. Monitoring is critical to detect and resolve those incidents when they happen. But how do you know your monitoring and alerting are working correctly? Chaos Engineering allows you to validate your monitoring, test your systems with controlled failure, and practice your incident response processes. In this session, we'll cover how to set up Grafana to quickly identify potential threats and how to get started with Chaos Engineering with Gremlin.

Elastic: Introduction to Elastic APM in the shift to cloud native

With cloud-native architectures and hundreds - or thousands - of microservices shaping the user experience, application performance monitoring (APM) is increasingly pivotal to the success of modern organizations. Get a rundown of the latest features and see Elastic APM in action with a demo from the experts. Watch our webinar and you will: Want to try it for yourself? Take some of these features for a spin with afree trial of our Elasticsearch Service.

Elastic: Getting Started with Elastic Workplace Search

Elastic Workplace Search is the easiest, quickest way to get your teams searching - and finding - the content they need to do their jobs, no matter where that content lives in your organization. With a distributed global workforce of remote workers and content spread over all of the most popular cloud tools, like GitHub, Confluence, G Suite, Salesforce, and more, we at Elastic faced the same challenges of unifying internal information to increase productivity and knowledge sharing as most of you.

Introducing the OpUtils mobile app

Troubleshoot your IP addresses and switch ports faster and smarter! Managing and troubleshooting your network IPs and ports effectively can become difficult if hands-on network monitoring by your IT team is required at all times. Ever wondered if you can monitor your IPs and endpoints on the go? If yes, the solution you need is the OpUtils mobile app.