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See and Secure containers on AWS Fargate

Tune into our #LinkedInLive event on December 9 from 11:30am-12pm PST and join Sysdig and Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts, Pawan Shankar and Eric Carter, to learn how to scan #AWS #Fargate containers in under 4 minutes with Sysdig Secure. Join this live discussion to learn how Sysdig Secure closes the visibility and security gap by providing the first automated #Fargate inline scanning.

New SAML Group Mapping Support

In July, we rolled out SolarWinds® Papertrail™ support for SAML v2.0. SAML authentication allows you to log into your Active Directory® domain or intranet and have immediate access to Papertrail, with no additional login required. Today we’re extending Papertrail SAML 2.0 support to include group mapping. Group mapping allows you to define organization and product roles, and grant access to logs and billings plans, by adding an account to an identify provider group.

Create a New Integration in Opsgenie

Opsgenie is a powerful alert management service that allows you to flexibly set up teams for different alerting groups. Our development team have been working hard to deliver new features and integrations, and now you are able to integrate Opsgenie with RapidSpike to help with your website monitoring.

Elastic on Elastic: How InfoSec deploys infrastructure and stays up-to-date with ECK

This post is part of a blog series highlighting how we embrace the solutions and features of the Elastic Stack to support our business and drive customer success. The Elastic InfoSec Security Engineering team is responsible for deploying and managing InfoSec's infrastructure and tools. At Elastic, speed, scale, and relevance is our DNA and leveraging the power of the Elastic Stack is the heart of InfoSec.

How to Ensure Your Website is Secure and Trustworthy

How is your website showing your customers that you care? You are selling a great product and making some good money, but what are you doing in return to assure your customers that all their payment and private data is protected? If you haven't thought about that before, now is the time because a significant data breach could mean the end of your company.

Monitoring Endpoint Security States with InfluxDB

Several factors in recent years have increased endpoint vulnerability — from organizations’ need to make access to data more fluid, to threats targeting mobile device access and networks, to the growing work-from-home and work-on-the-go trends. Endpoints connected to a network — including remote devices, IoT devices, workstations, tablets, laptops and servers — create attack paths for security threats.

The Value of Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK According to Splunk With Guest Speaker From IDC

The global pandemic has fueled a rapid digital transformation — and led to permanent shifts in cybersecurity. In a recent joint webinar with Bryan McAninch, senior solutions engineer at Splunk, and guest speaker Chris Kissel from IDC, "Sp(e)lunking Security with MITRE ATT&CK® featuring IDC Research," they shared seven overarching trends in cybersecurity for 2021. One notable, but foundational, trend mentioned was the need to understand risk.

IT security under attack: A typical day in the life of an IT admin or security analyst

The job of IT admins and IT security analysts are, without a doubt, some of the most important jobs in any company. When things are running smoothly, it is easy for everyone to forget they exist. However, the moment things go askew, everyone points fingers at them. IT security professionals are expected to know everything. Most of them are self-taught and have learned on-the-job. Over time, experience has turned them into battle-hardened soldiers.

Securing Kubernetes using Egress Access Controls

A majority of existing workloads are non-Kubernetes, and for the platform teams involved, this creates challenges because the cluster will need to be securely connected to those resources. Calico Enterprise includes several features that enable fine-grained access controls between your microservices and databases, cloud services, APIs, and other applications that may be protected behind a firewall. There are different approaches to managing Kubernetes egress access, depending on your needs and where you want the control point to be