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The Anatomy of a Secure Serverless Platform, Pt. 2 -- Development

Stackery’s secure serverless platform for AWS offers teams a key resource to help realize the promise of serverless – by automating otherwise complex infrastructure processes, we enable you to leverage the massive suite of AWS tools and services with minimal management overhead. It’s crucial for teams to do this while enforcing security and ensuring adherence to compliance guidelines.

Splunk Rapid Adoption Packages - Part 2

In part 1 of the RAP blog we focused on an overview of Rapid Adoption Packages, Part 2 will now focus on the use case package specifics and how these can help with customer goals. With Rapid Adoption Packages Customers have the option to select a number of use cases which are specifically designed exactly to do this, there are currently 9 available use case packages and they include...

Monitoring Family Pickle Consumption with Splunk!

Recently, about a month after our public health crisis started in the US, I opened my mailbox. Inside was a printed public service announcement sent from the mayor of my little community northwest of Denver. It had cute graphics of cartoonish townsfolk wearing facemasks, and the content conveyed reasonable, folksy messaging about social distancing and sheltering in place.

Fraud Detection: WFH Leading to Increased BEC and Phishing Threats - What To Look For

A lot has changed in the past few weeks. And the percentage of us working from home (WFH) has increased tremendously. With increased WFH, we rely more on email communication, and this increases the opportunities for abuse by others. One thing that has stayed constant: bad people want to do bad things. As we have seen in the past, when one avenue of attack is restricted, the fraudsters redouble their efforts in other areas, and online fraud attempts are already increasing during our new normal.

Sysdig: PCI Compliance in Containers & Kubernetes

Many of your applications are now starting to run on containers in the cloud. This means compliance and managing risk are top priorities. Your security teams understand PCI guidelines, but the challenge is a clear mapping of those PCI controls to container/Kubernetes environments. Ultimately, you need to ensure compliance is not blocking your code from going into production.

Sysdig: Moving Applications to the Cloud? How Top Financials Reduced their Security and Compliance Risk

Financial institutions are being attacked at an alarming rate. In July 2019, Accenture reported that the average annual cost of cybercrime for a financial service company reached $18.5 million. And that includes only the cost of the incident - not remediation. In order to gain agility benefits of the cloud DevOps teams need to manage risk, mitigate breaches, and gain visibility, without slowing down the CI/CD pipeline. What solutions help deliver for both DevOps and security professionals?

Moogsoft: Transforming L1 from Catch & Dispatch to Guardians of Development

Level 1 support staffers too often "catch and dispatch" tickets automatically without attempting to resolve the issues, mostly because they lack the required knowledge. This overwhelms the developers and engineers receiving these tickets. This session explains how Moogsoft AIOps's inference capabilities empower Level 1 staff to solve more of these operational issues.