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The Basics of DNS Monitoring: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Essential for Your Business

On Star Trek, there’s an incredibly useful device called the universal translator. As you’d expect, it allows everyone to understand each other. For example, if Captain Jean Luc Picard bumped into a race of aliens that bore a striking resemblance to Commander Riker’s beard, then they could set a date for some Earl Grey tea (hot) thanks to the universal translator. Without it, there might be grave misunderstandings and the firing of photon torpedoes.

The OpsRamp Monitor: Outage lessons, GCP advantages, IT careers

For IT professionals, an enduring outage is one of the worst things that can happen. There goes your credibility, and here comes the executive team enraged and impatient. Now of course, given the distributed, multi-sourced nature of IT infrastructure, some outages are simply not preventable. The details are still emerging from the June 9th outage on IBM Cloud. ITPro Today interviewed Forrester analyst Dave Bartoletti for some mitigation advice.

The value of a stolen account. A look at credential stuffing attacks.

A type of credential reuse attack known as credential stuffing has been recently observed in higher numbers towards industry verticals. Credential stuffing is the process of automated probing of and access to online services using credentials usually coming from data breaches, or bought in the criminal underground.

Everything you need to know about .NET 5.0

If you’re a developer of .NET supporting enterprise apps developed in the .NET framework, you should know how the .NET 5 would impact your current enterprise app. Moving forward, there will be only one .NET to target macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and more. Along with the release, there are new .NET APIs, language features, and runtime capabilities. The look and feel of the code and project files in .NET 5 would be the same, regardless of the type of app being created.

Cracked - 5 Annoying Compliance Problems for IT & Flexible Work

Are most companies right now thinking ‘everybody back to the office’, or ‘remote work forever’? My guess is neither. There is still too much uncertainty for businesses to lean heavily towards one option or the other. Instead, flexible work makes the most practical sense right now and I imagine that won’t change for some time. Yet, with flexible work can come plenty of compliance problems that can frustrate even the most agile and experienced of IT departments.

Splunk: Why SaaS and Cloud are Key to Weathering the Current IT Storm

If your job involves IT operations, you've no doubt spent a lot of time planning SaaS implementations and cloud migration strategies, but you probably never imagined having to create a new plan overnight. Remote work will undoubtedly continue to be a big part of your future, but it's not as simple as that. Hybrid remote/onsite working models bring a whole new level of complexity. If digital transformation was once a desired end goal, it is now a necessity.

Splunk: Modernizing your SOC for the Cloud Age Starts with Security Foundations

When all data is security-relevant, it's difficult to know where to start. Getting started requires decisions, but without quality data you're simply guessing. Bad data in, is bad data out. Getting the most from your data and security solutions can help ensure you get the answers you need to make more informed decisions in order to take action.