As a product manager, I am always concern about the value my customers will get from the product, and this is my main focus. In order to achieve this, I often meet with customers and talk about pain points, problems,offer a solution, see how the product can help. In the past few years, one of the items that get raised in these discussions is not related to any pain pointor feature requirement, it is the attachment method when dealing with K8s security.

As government agencies accelerate migrating their operations to the cloud, they need to adhere to strict compliance and security standards. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provides the standard that these agencies—and their private-sector partners—must meet to work and manage federal data safely in the cloud.

When performing critical security investigations and threat hunts using Elastic Security, the Timeline feature is always by your side as a workspace for investigations and threat hunting. Drilling down into an event is as simple as dragging and dropping to create the query you need to investigate an alert or event.

According to the American Management Association, nearly half of employers monitor their employees’ digital activity on company-owned devices to some degree. Some of these employers manually read employees’ emails and track their activity. But the vast majority use software for monitoring computers, which is far more efficient. The right software can help you keep track of what your employees are doing during work hours, regardless of whether they are in the office or working remotely.

Modern privacy regulation is centered around the concept of personal information. The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) popularized it, but since then similar initiatives—like the California Consumer Privacy Act—have expanded on the definition of "Personal Information." If your application collects any kind of information about your users or customers, it is important that you track when, how, and for what purpose you are collecting their data.

Since 2018, Watchdog has provided automatic, machine learning-based anomaly detection to notify you of performance issues in your applications. Earlier this year, Watchdog started grouping APM anomalies across your services, allowing you to better understand the scope of the issue.

For today’s busy sysadmin, systems health and performance monitoring tools like Microsoft’s SCOM (Systems Center Operations Manager) and the open-source Nagios are invaluable. They enable at-a-glance monitoring of large numbers of servers throughout a network, which is doubly critical in case of a widely geographically dispersed network setup such as in a WAN or MAN. Though they broadly achieve the same goals, SCOM and Nagios come at it from quite different directions.

Kubernetes continues to be a popular platform for deploying containerized applications, but securing Kubernetes environments as you scale up is challenging. Each new container increases your application’s attack surface, or the number of potential entry points for unauthorized access. Without complete visibility into every managed container and application request, you can easily overlook gaps in your application’s security as well as malicious activity.