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Every year brings new opportunities for federal IT professionals to reduce risk by addressing threats—both existing and emerging—with new tools, technologies, and tactics. This year has proven to be a little different, with the emergence of COVID-19 forcing federal agencies to make the jump to remote work. Although the world at large is currently working from home, bad actors from criminals to nation-state actors are still working, too.

Developers at Airbnb, BBC, Netflix, and Nike all share something in common: They’re using serverless computing to ship new products and features faster than ever. And they represent a growing trend. As businesses compete to quickly deliver customer value, a whopping 60% of enterprises have already adopted, or are planning to use, serverless architectures.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. With the rising concern over cyberattacks in the distributed workforce, this week we explore the concept of cybersecurity incident response during a pandemic.

How many applications do you use every day? On average, probably 20. Think about it—We use them to check email, to avoid traffic, to know if we need a coat, to order dinner, and to connect with friends and family. We use others to drive success for our organizations, to present new ideas, to close deals, and to take care of our customers. And this year, we used video conferencing apps to keep the world moving, streaming apps to keep ourselves sane, and online grocery apps.

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month, our big announcement was around CloudTrail and Fargate scanning support. CloudTrail support gives Sysdig Secure the ability to ingest CloudTrail events. These get fed into the runtime security engine, where rules can be created using the Falco rules language.

SSO is often accomplished by using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). While LDAP has a variety of use cases, in this post, I’ll focus on authentication — specifically, how to use LDAP authentication for single-sign on (SSO) with Sensu Go. First off, a quick overview of Sensu authentication.

Using open source code makes it easier to build applications, but the freely available nature of open source code introduces the risk of pulling potential security vulnerabilities into your environment. Knowing whether or not customers are actually accessing the vulnerable parts of your application is key to triaging security threats without spending hours fixing an issue that doesn’t affect end users.

Stormshield and SonicWall are popular firewalls used to monitor network traffic for malicious actors. Firewalls can help detect all kinds of attacks, like brute force logins, DDoS, and SQL Injection, but they just make up a piece of the security puzzle. Most teams will have many other security tools that address different kinds of vulnerabilities and attacks.