Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2023

Creating Allowed IPs

In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of creating allowed IPs for PostgreSQL on the Aiven platform. Ensuring secure access to your database is essential, and Aiven provides robust security features to help you protect your PostgreSQL instances. We'll show you how to configure the allowed IPs or whitelist specific IP addresses to establish controlled access to your Aiven PostgreSQL database. By implementing IP filtering rules, you can restrict connections to trusted sources and enhance the overall security of your database. Join us as we explore the step-by-step process of managing allowed IPs on Aiven and leverage the platform's security settings to safeguard your PostgreSQL environment.

Monitoring MLOps Workflows with Flyte-powered Grafana Dashboards - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Learn how to monitor MLOps workflows effectively with Flyte-powered Grafana dashboards in this talk from Navigate NA 2023. Shivay Lamba discusses the importance of monitoring in the MLOps journey, highlighting the unique challenges in monitoring machine learning models compared to standard software development. Discover how Flyte, an open-source project, can help manage and monitor ML tasks efficiently, and see a live demonstration of setting up Grafana dashboards to visualize system metrics like CPU and GPU utilization. Take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your MLOps monitoring skills and optimize your machine learning workflows.

Cloud Native Application Observability - Sensitive Data Masking for logs

Masking sensitive data in logs is crucial for ensuring the protection and privacy of sensitive information. If exposed, personally identifiable information (PII), financial details, and healthcare records pose significant risks. By masking this data in logs, organizations can prevent unauthorized access, comply with data protection regulations, mitigate insider threats, reduce the attack surface for potential breaches, and enable effective auditing and investigation without compromising sensitive information.

Diagnosing SAP performance issues with AppDynamics Snapshots

AppDynamics monitors every execution of a business transaction within an application that has been instrumented, either using our agents or through OpenTelemetry. Both Business Transaction and Process Snapshots capture the details necessary for gaining a deeper understanding of method call performance...answering questions like, what line of code is taking the longest to run?

Azure Blob Storage Malware Scanning soon to be GA

On September 1, 2023, Microsoft’s Defender for Azure Blob Storage is set to introduce a groundbreaking feature: Malware Scanning. This highly-anticipated addition to the Defender suite brings real-time protection against malicious content, making it a vital component in fortifying your data security and safeguarding against the ever-evolving threat landscape.

6 Best Practices for Online Payment Processing Security

Are you considering taking payments online? Business is booming. E-commerce now accounts for $870 billion annually in the US alone, a 50.5% increase since 2019. But with more money comes more problems. In 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced that 8.8 billion dollars were lost to fraud, with identity theft as the number one cause. Clearly, it has never been more lucrative - and more dangerous - to be in business online.

Why Cybersecurity Is Important: Safeguarding Data in an Evolving World

Our hybrid world is rapidly growing and changing due to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotics, quantum computing, and cloud services. While these advancements bring many advantages, they’ve also made digital systems more complex, increased cost, and introduced new cybersecurity challenges.

Survey: Risk-readiness leads to organizational resilience

Organizations worldwide face growing risks from rapidly changing technology, sustainability pressures, macroeconomic turmoil, and geopolitical disruptions. Risk-ready, resilient organizations can detect and respond to all these pressures more quickly, according to a global survey of 1,000 C-suite executives conducted by ServiceNow and ThoughtLab.