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Running commands securely in containers with Amazon ECS Exec and Sysdig

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Exec, a powerful feature to allow developers to run commands inside their ECS containers. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service by Amazon Web Services. ECS allows you to organize and operate container resources on the AWS cloud, and allows you to mix Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate workloads for high scalability.

Enabling Secure Access for the Federal Government - Meeting Comply to Connect Mandates

Government IT organizations must demonstrate and maintain compliance with a large and growing number of regulations and standards around network access control (NAC), ensuring that all connected devices to their environment are not vulnerable is a key requirement. Comply to connect (C2C) simplifies this by enforcing that patches and hardened configurations are applied to devices before they connect and updated continually.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 4 - How is this Pudding Connected?

I thought my last blog, Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends, about fraud detection using link analysis would be the end of this topic for now. Surprise, this is part 4 of visual link analysis. Previously (for those who need a refresher) I wanted to use Splunk Cloud to show me all the links in my data in my really big data set. I wanted to see all the fraud rings that I didn’t know about. I was happy with my success in using link analysis for fraud detection.

Everything you need to know about the Malwarebytes hack

We’ve all become more conscious of the risk of online scammers and hackers, especially since we put more and more of our personal information into websites and apps on a daily basis. We’ve become more knowledgeable on the likes of data protection through EU regulations like GDPR and learned about how we “drop” cookies as we surf the web.

Integrate certificate life cycle management with enterprise MDM and boost your mobile ecosystem security

A huge portion of today’s corporate network is made up of mobile endpoints, such as laptops, tablet computers, and mobile phones. These are domain-joined and non-domain devices that require access to corporate assets to carry out everyday operations.

Getting Started with Logz.io's New Cloud SIEM Free Trial

The Logz.io Cloud SIEM team is excited to announce a new free trial! You’ll be able to ship 1 GB of security events per day for 21 days. Cloud SIEM makes it easy to centralize, prioritize, and investigate security events, so you can respond to threats faster than ever. Check out this short demo video to see how it works. Sound interesting? Check out the instructions for our 21 day free trial below!

Elastic Security 101

Elastic Security empowers analysts to collect data from multiple data source integrations, perform traditional SIEM functions, and take advantage of machine learning-based malware protection on the endpoint. Analysts can filter, group, and visualize data in real-time while performing automated threat detection across various security events and information. In this video, you’ll learn about the components that make up Elastic Security and what those components do to help you protect your data.

How to configure your Endpoint Integration policy in Elastic Security

Elastic Security offers the ability to open and track security issues using cases. Cases created directly in Elastic Security can be sent to external systems like Atlassian’s Jira, including Jira Service Desk, Jira Core, and Jira Software. In this video, you’ll learn how to connect Elastic Security to the Jira Service Desk.

Further Tips on our Database Migration to the Azure Cloud Session at MS Ignite 2021

I was really stoked to deliver a session at Microsoft Ignite with my long-time friend and fellow Head Geek™, Tom LaRock, on the topic of migrating an on-premises SQL Server database to the Azure cloud. You can watch the session on demand here. In addition, Microsoft MVP and SQL Server expert David Klee provides an excellent recap on each of the major elements Tom and I discussed.