Banning apps is sometimes necessary to protect your organization from malicious or misused applications. In particular, leaky apps can be a significant threat, and identifying and banning them is an essential app security measure. Some organizations choose a more flexible approach by allowing employees to use unsanctioned apps and monitor their usage for suspicious activity. Yet others don’t monitor employee app use at all, which is the riskiest approach imaginable.

Boomi is a cloud-based integration platform that helps customers connect their applications, data sources, and other endpoints. But monitoring and troubleshooting Boomi Atoms—the runtime engines for Boomi integration processes—and the applications connected to them can be a challenge. Boomi automatically purges logs after 30 days, and users must frequently correlate data from various disconnected sources for visibility into their Boomi processes.

In today's ever-changing digital development landscape organizations face the challenge of delivering high-quality software quickly and efficiently. Developing and producing new products and updates is a compelling but fundamental part of any technology business. But ensuring the process runs smoothly to make certain that your release reaches your customers as expected can be challenging. This is where release management tools come in.

Throughout the third quarter of this year, Lightrun continued its efforts to develop a multitude of solutions and improvements focused on enhancing developer productivity. Their primary objectives were to improve troubleshooting for distributed workload applications, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for complex issues, and optimize costs in the realm of cloud computing. Read more below the main new features as well as the key product enhancements that were released in Q3 of 2023!

Elastic® has enabled the collection, transformation, and analysis of data flowing between the external data sources and Elastic Observability Solution through integrations. Integration packages achieve this by encapsulating several components, including agent configuration, inputs for data collection, and assets like ingest pipelines, data streams, index templates, and visualizations. The breadth of these assets supported in the Elastic Stack increases day by day.

According to a 2021 report by Verizon, almost half of all cyberattacks target businesses with under 1,000 employees. This figure is steadily rising as small businesses seem to be an easy target for cybercriminals. 61% of SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) were targeted in 2021. But why are small businesses highly vulnerable to cyberattacks? We are looking into where the vulnerabilities are and what small businesses can do to protect themselves.