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The rate of cyberattacks is alarming. The number keeps increasing every year. According to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime Report, in 2018, cybercrime leads to a $2.7 billion loss. This means that you have to up your game when it comes to protecting your website content. You can prevent cyber attacks by controlling any form of data that comes from users.

At Grafana Labs, we are always working on optimizing query time on our Grafana Cloud hosted metrics platform, which incorporates our Metrictank Graphite-compatible metrics service, and Cortex, the open source project for multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service.

All engineering teams strive to build the best product they can as quickly as possible. Some, though, stumble into a false dichotomy of choosing between speed and quality. While that choice may have been necessary in the past, it’s not the case today. What I’d like to do in this article is explain why.

In this four-part series, Combating threats with UEBA, we explore hypothetical cyberattacks inspired by real-life events in four different industries: healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and education. We’ll take a look at unforeseen security attack scenarios, and discover how user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) can be leveraged to safeguard organizations.

The next version of Netdata has arrived! Aside from dozens of quality-of-life and papercut fixes, we’ve launched some new features we know you’ll be excited to use straight away. Let’s dive in.

Does your business accept credit card payments? If that’s the case, you should read this article to find out what the challenges to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) are, and the current best practices to ensure that you are in compliance with this legal requirement.