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Common API Vulnerabilities and How to Secure Them

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a critical part of almost every business. APIs are responsible for transferring information between systems within a company or to external companies. For example, when you log in to a website like Google or Facebook, an API processes your login credentials to verify they are correct.

The Quixotic Expedition Into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 2: How to Use Cribl Search for Intrusion Detection

For today’s IT and security professionals, threats come in many forms – from external actors attempting to breach your network defenses, to internal threats like rogue employees or insecure configurations. These threats, if left undetected, can lead to serious consequences such as data loss, system downtime, and reputational damage. However, detecting these threats can be challenging, due to the sheer volume and complexity of data generated by today’s IT systems.

Integrating BindPlane Into Your Splunk Environment Part 2

Often it can be a challenge to collect data into a monitoring environment that does not natively support that data source. Bindplane can help solve this problem. As the Bindplane Agent is based on OpenTelemetry (and is also as freeform as possible), one can bring in data from disparate sources that are not easily supported by the Splunk Universal Forwarder.

Don't Drown in Your Data - Why you don't need a Data Lake

As a leader in Security Analytics, we at Elastic are often asked for our recommendations for architectures for long-term data analysis. And more often than not, the concept of Limitless Data is a novel idea. Other security analytics vendors, struggling to support long-term data retention and analysis, are perpetuating a myth that organizations have no option but to deploy a slow and unwieldy data lake (or swamp) to store data for long periods of time. Let’s bust this myth.

How to Manually Instrument .NET Applications with OpenTelemetry

Welcome to our deep-dive tutorial on manually instrumenting.NET applications with OpenTelemetry! In this comprehensive guide, we walk you through the process of adding OpenTelemetry to your.NET applications to help you better understand and optimize their performance. Whether you're an experienced.NET developer or just getting started, you'll find actionable insights and tips to improve your application monitoring and tracing capabilities.

Dark Data: Discovery, Uses, and Benefits of Hidden Data

Dark data is all of the unused, unknown and untapped data across an organization. This data is generated as a result of users’ daily interactions online with countless devices and systems — everything from machine data to server log files to unstructured data derived from social media. Organizations may consider this data too old to provide value, incomplete or redundant, or limited by a format that can’t be accessed with available tools.