Last year, as in years prior, was a year full of cyber-attacks. But what was interesting was the trend of small and medium businesses being targeted more often. Generally, those types of businesses have either rested in the false impression that they’re not a big enough target or didn’t have plentiful valuable information hackers are seeking. The reality is the opposite and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Since Active Directory is the foundation of all Windows networks, monitoring Active Directory needs to be part of any comprehensive security strategy. Up to version 3.5, EventSentry utilized Windows auditing and the security event log to provide reports on: User Account Changes, Group Changes and Computer Account Changes.
Microservice architectures running on containers have made applications easier to scale and faster to develop. As a result, enterprises are able to innovate faster and accelerate time-to-market for new features. To make management of microservices even more efficient and easier to run, service mesh solutions like Istio, Envoy, and Linkerd – and now AWS App Mesh – have become the next core building blocks of microservices infrastructure built on containers.
When Shelley published his famous poem in 1816, he was telling us that the only constant in life is change. This was not a new concept, even then. Heraclitus proposed the same concept around 500 BCE with ‘Panta rhei’ (Life is Flux or everything changes). Even though we all know and understand this ancient concept, people still have difficulty with change.
Log management is the answer to all of your digital transformation woes. No, hear me out. At its heart, log management is the (challenging) task of collecting and storing all machine-generated data from across your entire enterprise into a common repository. If this collection doesn’t happen, or if log collection is limited to certain datasets, there’s little chance of deriving those high value insights you dream of.
