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Security in depth with Ubuntu: Mapping security primitives to attacker capabilities

Cybersecurity is not about perfection. In fact, it’s more like a game of chess: predicting your opponent’s moves and making the game unwinnable for your opponent. Like chess players, attackers are always looking for an opening, probing for weaknesses, or waiting for you to make a mistake. Therefore, the best defense isn’t a single unbreakable barrier, but instead a layered strategy that forces your adversary into a losing position at every turn.

Enterprise-Grade Software Security: Mastering Control Over Your Software IP

Enterprises should prioritize securing their software artifacts to protect intellectual property (IP), maintain compliance, and mitigate supply chain risks. A strong security posture requires a deep understanding of access management, distribution controls, compliance enforcement, and software lifecycle governance.

Why Cybersecurity Asset Management is Crucial for Cyber Hygiene

The concept of managing IT assets for security purposes has been around since the earliest days of computer networks in business. However, the term “Cybersecurity Asset Management (CAM)” itself is relatively new, however, Teneo have been opening minds to CAM for some time now, here is a summary of what it is and why it’s so important as part of maintaining good Cyber Hygiene.

Traditional IT CMDB vs. Data Center CMDB: What's the Difference?

When it comes to managing IT and data center assets, organizations often rely on a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). But not all CMDBs are created equal. While a traditional IT CMDB helps track hardware, software, and configurations, a Data Center CMDB is specifically designed to manage the physical infrastructure, capacity, and dependencies within a data center. Understanding the differences between these two types of CMDBs is critical for optimizing operations and ensuring complete visibility.

The Risks of Not Replacing Skype for Business Before its End of Life

If your organization uses Skype for Business for collaboration, it’s time to start thinking about your next communication platform. On Oct. 15, 2025, Microsoft will stop supporting Skype for Business. As a result, the platform’s performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs will no longer be fixed. There’s still time to move to a new platform before Skype for Business is no longer supported.

Migrating from Generic to Custom Attestations: A zero-trust approach to compliance

The kosli attest generic CLI command can attest anything, but unlike a “typed” attestation (such as kosli attest snyk), it does not calculate a true/false compliance value for you. Customers have reported that while a generic “escape hatch” is useful, it nevertheless has some drawbacks: Based on this feedback we’ve implemented a new attest command called kosli attest custom.

1st Live AMA with GitLens Creator Eric Amodio | Feb 13, 1pm EST

What questions would you ask the creator of GitLens? Whether you’re a power user or new to GitLens and have basic questions, we’d love to hear from you. Join us for a live AMA with Eric Amodio, the creator of GitLens on February 13th at 1 PM EST. GitLens has evolved significantly since it began as a simple blame and annotations extension for VS Code. Now, we invite you to ask questions, gain insights, and hear Eric’s perspective on any topics you're curious about.

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose in Hosted Graphite

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 2 - Introducing a new PostgreSQL book!

In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down when them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.