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Let’s check out together the new features and improvements related to the newest Pandora FMS release: Pandora FMS 753.

The cold season is hopefully coming to an end, and Spring is here! And just like the changes in the seasons, we have a new SDK release, updated developer docs, and other signs of new growth! It’s a great time to update your apps using the latest SDKs for the latest Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise releases. Plant your session proposal in the .conf21 Call For Speakers! It's also time to prune away some older jQuery and Python versions support. Read on for the latest news.

The Splunk Threat Research Team recently developed an analytic story to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries attempting to escalate their privileges and gain elevated access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. In this blog, we’ll walk you through an AWS privilege escalation analytic story, demonstrate how we simulated these attacks using Atomic Red Team, collect and analyze the AWS cloudtrail logs, and highlight a few detections from the March 2021 releases.

For our first specialist interview on the Logit.io blog, we’ve welcomed Scott Steinburg to share his thoughts on the current state of cybersecurity as well as the reasons behind writing his new book Cybersecurity: The Expert Guide. Scott is the creator of the popular Business Expert’s Guidebook series, host of video show Business Expert: Small Business Hints, Tips and Advice and CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global.

If your business is among the more than one million organizations that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host applications and data, there is a good chance that you struggle to monitor AWS. After all, although AWS makes it easy to deploy cloud services, collecting and analyzing data about those services in an efficient, centralized way can be a real challenge.

Node.js is one of the most popular Javascript frameworks in 2021. With the increasing demand for Node.js comes the crucial next step of Node.js server monitoring. The best way to monitor your Node.js server is with an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool. Keep in mind, Node.js server monitoring is a bit of a tricky task, and there are particular challenges you should be aware of. But don’t worry because this how-to guide will walk you through it step-by-step.

Over the past few years, the IoT community has embraced InfluxDB as a cornerstone of the solutions they build. Whether modernizing or greenfield, InfluxDB has helped many in working with vast quantities of sensor and device data as we continue to deliver on our promise of time to awesome for IoT.

For over four decades, large US businesses have relied upon the shared services business model for cost reduction and operational efficiency. Even now, the trend continues with over 80% of the Fortune 500 companies in the USembracing it for obvious reasons. Presently, Human Resources (HR) and Legal shared services teams have become increasingly popular due to their sensitive nature and the supportive role they play in the overall functioning of a business.

So, what does CX mean? As you can expect with any “what is” query you pop into Google, Wikipedia does a great job providing customer experience definition. It says that: “The product of an interaction between an organization and a customer over the duration of their relationship”. Now, by all means – that 100 % true. But, being in the customer experience game ourselves, we’re not entirely satiated. At least not just yet.

Efficient Data Center monitoring and management supports our digital economy. As a result, operation and protection of the Data Center are critical. For reliable and safe monitoring, transparency is of utmost importance. But it is surprising to witness that one of the least explored area in data center network establishment is monitoring. This is ironic because at its core, a network has two goals: 1) Get packets from A to B 2) Make sure packets are received from A to B.