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January 2019

Cybersecurity Best Practices: Protect Your Team from Phishing Attacks

Phishing happens. It is probably happening as you read this. Right now, some well-defended company is having data under its care exposed. This data may contain sensitive information, such as login credentials, and in many cases, it is only known that an attack of this type has taken place after the fact. Protecting yourself and your employer against phishing attacks relies foremost on critical thinking; however, there are some business processes and technologies that can help.

SIEM vs. Security Analytics

SIEM has been with us for almost two decades now and is seen as a proven approach to dealing with potential threats as well as actual attacks on business critical systems. But today, it is becoming clear that changes in IT infrastructure and deployment practices are giving rise to new challenges that cannot be met by existing SIEM platforms.

The Challenge of Log Management in Modern IT Environments

Gaining visibility into modern IT environments is a challenge that an increasing number of organizations are finding difficult to overcome. Yes–the advent of cloud computing and virtually “unlimited” storage has made it much easier to solve some of the traditional challenges involved in gaining visibility. However, architecture has evolved into microservices, containers and scheduling infrastructure.

Getting Your Feet Wet with the Logz.io API

API access is available at the Enterprise tier of our product. With it, you can create a whole range of heavily customized use cases to further expand our suite of offerings. For example, you can hit our API to send customized query results to a third party service like Nagios, or you can automate the creation and deletion of sub-accounts.

Battle of the Automation Servers: Jenkins vs. Bamboo vs. TeamCity

In many product development workflows, there are three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. In this scenario, every change that is made to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so to lessen the likelihood of this happening, developers assume many strategies to reduce incidents and bugs. One strategy is to adopt continuous integration tools (CI): used together with a source version software to verify if something has gone wrong for every update.

How to Stay Ahead of Data Retention Requirements - Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we tried to outline what data retention is and why it is needed to overcome increasing requirements for various regulatory standards. As detailed, there are some clear guidelines for organizations to take what we called a “data retention approach for compliance”. In this follow up post, outline some specific technological and procedural challenges you might face as well as some practical guidelines and strategies to overcome them.

How to Stay Ahead of Data Retention Requirements - Part 1

Record keeping tasks such as data retention and disposal are an essential part of business management and regulatory compliance. At its core, data retention is about data control—meaning that an organization has taken steps to identify data throughout its organization, and then assess its importance, determine how long it will keep it, and then dispose of it.