Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

March 2023

Cloud Migrations with Cribl.Cloud

Cribl’s suite of products help you gain the control and confidence you need to successfully migrate to the cloud. With routing, shaping, enriching, and search functionalities, data becomes more manageable and allows you to work more efficiently. By routing data from existing sources to multiple destinations, you can ensure data parity in your new cloud destinations, before turning off your on-premises (or legacy) analytics, monitoring, storage, or database products and tooling.

Cyber Resilience: The Key to Security in an Unpredictable World

This live stream is a conversation between Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire on the growing significance of cyber resilience in today’s digital landscape. You’ll learn what cyber resilience means, why it’s important, and how to manage and improve it in an increasingly unpredictable world. With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated and frequent, cyber resilience has become critical to protecting personal and business assets.

Cribl Culture Recognized with Four More Comparably Awards

The Cribl Goats have done it again! Among 70,000 companies and 15 million ratings, Cribl is honored to earn four more Comparably awards recognizing our company culture, based on employee reviews. This week, Comparably announced that Cribl has won awards for Best Company Outlook, Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Best Engineering Teams, and Best Marketing Teams.

Building a Distributed Security Team With Cjapi's James Curtis

Join Cribl's Ed Bailey and Cjapi's James Curtis as they discuss the challenges of building a distributed global security team. Talent is hard to find and companies are hiring all over the world to build the best teams possible, but this trend has a price. Traditional management processes do not work, from building culture to the basics around assigning, tracking and measuring work. Team leads and managers rarely have the experience and training to handle remote teams which can impact team effectiveness and thus weaken the enterprise security posture.

Meet the New Cribl Curious: User Groups, Badges, and More!

Are you curious about how to get the most out of Cribl’s products or want to connect with like-minded individuals to expand your skills with IRL user groups? Look no further than Cribl Curious, the online community designed for Cribl users to ask and answer technical questions, share knowledge, and connect with others in the industry. Today, we’re excited to unveil the brand new Cribl Curious! It brings exciting new features to take your Cribl experience to the next level.

Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Syslog

Join Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira as they go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, with a focus on scaling syslog. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Ahmed will explain guidelines for how to handle high volume UDP and TCP syslog traffic. They will also share different use cases and talk about the pros and cons for using different approaches to solve this common and often painful challenge.

Empowering SecOps Admins: Getting the Most Value From CrowdStrike FDR Data With Cribl Stream

In this live stream, Sidd Shah and I discuss how Cribl Stream can empower Security Operations Admins to make the most of their CrowdStrike FDR data. They address the challenges faced by CrowdStrike customers, who generate a vast amount of valuable data each day but struggle to leverage it fully due to complexity and size.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Search Operators: Introducing 'send' Operator

Cribl Search is a powerful tool that allows users to search and analyze data at rest, quickly and efficiently. But what if you need to send your search results to a different system for further analysis, audit, or compliance purposes? For instance, consider the following use cases: That’s where send operator comes in.

Level Up Your Observability Game With the Cribl Suite of Products: All About Our 4.1 Release

After our recent company-wide offsite in New Orleans, the Cribl employees are feeling like they’ve leveled up in more ways than one. Not only did we indulge in delicious beignets and king cakes, but we also came back motivated to create some kick-ass new product features with our 4.1 release. It’s like we soaked up all the good vibes and brought them back with us.

Cribl Search 4.1: More Data, More Automation, and a More Intuitive User Interface

It’s been less than 4 months since we released Cribl Search, the first federated query engine focused on observability and security data. The reception has been tremendous. Customers, partners, prospects, and even our internal teams were overjoyed by the initial offering but have been anxiously awaiting the promises of the next release. The wait is over!

Introducing the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

In this live stream discussion, Eugene Katz and I explain the importance of a quality reference architecture in successful software deployment and guide viewers on how to begin with the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture. They help users establish end-state goals, share different use cases, and help data administrators identify which parts of the reference architecture apply to their specific situation. It’s also available on our podcast feed if you want to listen on the go.

MIAX and Cribl Stream: Enriching Data for Improved Observability and Faster Time to Value

Using Cribl Stream for observability is a given, but what about using Cribl Stream to get MORE from your data? Observability is all about being able to collect, route, store, and search your data. Implementing enrichment with observability provides more context and elevates your ho-hum data to robust information. This is key to faster, more confident decision-making!

The Importance of Observability Pipelines in Gaining Control over Observability and Security Data

Today’s enterprises must have the capability to cope with the growing volumes of observability data, including metrics, logs, and traces. This data is a critical asset for IT operations, site reliability engineers (SREs), and security teams that are responsible for maintaining the performance and protection of data and infrastructure. As systems become more complex, the ability to effectively manage and analyze observability data becomes increasingly important.

Observability Data vs Data Observability: What's the Difference?

Fun fact: Observability goes all the way back to the 1960s, coined by scientist Rudolf Kálmán as a way to measure a system through its output. Now, over six decades later, observability has fragmented into several specialized segments — from application observability, to security observability, and everything in between. The two segments driving the most confusion are data observability and observability data.

Empowering Security Observability: Solving Common Struggles for SOC Analysts and Security Engineers

Join Ed Bailey and GreyNoise founder Andrew Morris as they share insights on how Cribl and GreyNoise help SOC analysts overcome common struggles and improve security detections and incident resolution. Through personal stories and real customer use cases, they'll demonstrate how combining these solutions can make a real difference in the day-to-day lives of SOC analysts. You'll also gain valuable insights into data flow and architecture, and learn how GreyNoise can drive outsized value. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your security observability skills.

Forbes Names Cribl as One of America's Best Startup Employers 2023

Values led culture. Meaningful work. Remote-first environment. Massive growth. A love of Goats. These are just some of the ingredients that make Cribl a place where employees can do their best work. And we’re honored to be recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 with a top 10 ranking! Not all awards are created equal, and this recognition by Forbes is particularly meaningful because it’s based on extensive data research and social listening analysis.

Why Automation is Critical for Improving an Enterprise Security Posture

Cybersecurity threats are coming in hot and have quickly become an urgent concern for organizations of all sizes. In response, security teams are shifting away from homegrown security solutions and towards automation using commercially available tools. As organizations seek to improve their security resilience, they find themselves also needing to scale their security teams more efficiently as they address continuous staffing shortages.

Unlocking the Value of Your Data with Cribl Search: A Journey with Darmar the Security Analyst

Those of you in the know, have already met Darmar, our Security Analyst at the Cribl University campus. (If you aren’t in the know, check out our newly rolled-out CCOE Stream Admin training to meet our beloved – & fictitious – goat). Hang with me, while I recount Darmar’s journey to unlocking the full value of their data.

Industry Experts Discuss Cybersecurity Trends and a New Fund to Shape the Future

Cribl's Ed Bailey and Angel Investor Ross Haleliuk discuss trends in the CyberSecurity industry and Ross will be making a big announcement about his new fund to shape the future of the cybersecurity industry. Ross is a big believer in focusing on the security practitioner to provide practical solutions to common issues by early investment in companies he thinks will promote these values. Ed and Ross will discuss trends in the industry and common struggles that both Cribl and his new fund seek to address by adding value and giving security practitioners choice and control over how they run their security program.