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Most remote employees are probably familiar with a security practice known as multi-factor authentication (MFA), even if they cannot technically define it. If you’ve ever tried to complete an online purchase and were met with a string of security questions or received a one-time password (OTP) on your mobile device—then you’ve participated in an MFA process.

If you’re the resident expert in your company on a particular technology, you probably get asked a lot of questions about it: how to set it up, how to maintain it, how to monitor it. While it’s great to be recognized as the expert, all these requests for help can steal time away from your day job. Thankfully, we’ve got something that will help: InfluxDB Templates.

Google Cloud recently expanded the list of GSuite audit logs that you can share with your Cloud Audit Logs, part of your organization’s Google Cloud’s account. This is awesome news and allows administrators to audit and visualize their GSuite Admin and Login activity in Splunk real-time via the same method used to stream Google Cloud logs and events into Splunk, using the Google-provided Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template.

PostgreSQL offers flexibility on how data is stored and compared in a relational database. This is why it’s so popular among enterprises as a solution for their database requirements. Although PostgreSQL is quite reliable, database problems are inevitable, especially in large-scale environments. Ignoring these problems could result in a plunge in the productivity of your business.

When organizations shift to a work-from-home environment, identity and access management (IAM) takes center stage. Organizations with remote workforces must fortify their IAM policies and tools for a better user experience to ensure productivity, while also handling all the security challenges remote work presents to ensure data and system security. One of the biggest risks an organization faces when its workforce goes remote is unnecessary and unauthorized access to organizational data.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require employees to work from home. It’s a new normal for many, but at Grafana Labs our team has always recruited and operated with a remote-first culture in mind. To help everyone transition to a home office environment, we launched a new WFH series in which Grafana team members have been sharing their best advice for staying productive at home – yes, even if you have kids around.