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GDPR Log Management - Compliant Logging Best Practices

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was authored in 2016 and became applicable on May 25th of 2018. You can read the regulation in its entirety in this PDF. If you have legal questions about GDPR and how it applies to your organization, you should seek the advice of a professional who is familiar with the regulation.

Splunk: Four Steps to Transform Your IT Monitoring Strategy

IT Ops teams are now critical to an organization's success and require a strategy that aligns with the company's objectives and its external stakeholders. Most infrastructure monitoring solutions haven't caught up to meet these new requirements, forcing IT teams to resort to traditional monitoring strategies that don't allow for innovation and growth.

Elastic: Kibana Spaces: Organize (and Secure) Your Dashboards and Saved Objects

New in version 6.5, Kibana spaces allows you to organize your dashboards, visualizations, and other saved objects into meaningful categories based on team, use case, individual, or really any way you choose. Using role-based access control, you can layer in security to control who can (and cannot) view and/or edit which space.

Elastic: Tracking your Infrastructure Logs & Metrics in the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack)

The Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) has always been a popular choice for analyzing infrastructure logs and metrics. If you are using (or evaluating) the Elastic Stack for your observability initiatives, you will be thrilled by the slew of new features that launched in version 6.5. There's so much goodness there, we decided to pack it into one punchy webinar.

Using Terraform for container security as code with Sysdig Secure

In the following tutorial you can learn how to implement container security as code. You probably have a CI/CD pipeline to automatically rebuild your container images. What if you could define your container security as code, push it into a Git repository to version control changes and then enforce your policy in your container orchestration tool like Docker or Kubernetes using Sysdig Secure?

All the Security and Compliance Features Announced at AWS Re:Invent 2018

Yet another Re:Invent has concluded, leaving behind a trail of announcements, new features, and vendor swag (how many T-shirts can we possibly own?). Security was a hot topic at this year’s conference; so much so that it was mentioned in-depth within the first 10 minutes of Andy Jassy’s keynote and numerous times afterwards, as well as during Werner Vogel’s keynote the following day.