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Five worthy reads: Educating the education sector on cybersecurity

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss the state of cybersecurity in the education sector. Making up more than 6 percent of the gross world product, the global education sector has been growing at a 4.5 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and is forecasted to be worth $10 trillion by 2030.

Five reasons to choose Log360, part 2: Multi-environment support

In the previous post of this series, we looked at how easy it is to get Log360 up and running due to its various deployment features and easy-to-use UI. Today, we’ll dive into the solution’s wide range of support for event sources across multiple environments. Servers and workstations. With Log360, you can easily go deep into the events occurring on all Windows, Unix/Linux, and IBM servers and workstations in your network.

What Should You Learn from the Massive Data Breach "Operation Soft Cell"?

Another massive data breach was uncovered last week (30.6.19). The US-Israeli based company Cybereason traced via a year-long operation (called “Operation Soft Cell”), an attack that had been underway since 2012. This time it was the telecommunication sector that was hit. The most worrisome fact about this breach is not only the methods that were used (which were highly sophisticated) but the purpose of the hacking.

kr8 - Configuration Management for Kubernetes Cluster

This article originated from http://leebriggs.co.uk///blog/2018/11/07/kr8-kubernetes-config-mgmt.html Previous visitors to this blog will remember I wrote about configuration mgmt for Kubernetes clusters, and how the space was lacking. For those not familiar, the problem statement is this: it’s really hard to maintain and manage configuration for components of multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Single Sign-On for Kubernetes: The Command Line Experience

One of these problems is that Kubernetes has no login process. Ordinarily, the client software would initiate this login flow, but kubectl does not have this built in. Kubernetes leaves it up to you to design the login experience. In this post, I will explain the journey we took to get engineers logged in from the terminal and the challenges we faced along the way. The first step to SSO was to set up Dex as our Identity Provider.

Benchmark your AWS security threats

Today, we are announcing the general availability of our new module within our Global Intelligence Service with a benchmarking capability on AWS security by baselining the Amazon GuardDuty findings. If you are one of the 100,000 users of Sumo, go to your App catalog and install the Amazon GuardDuty benchmark app with one click and see your threats against the global threats that we gather from hundreds of Sumo customers.

Sysdig Secure now integrates with AWS Security Hub

Today, Sysdig is proud to announce our integration with the AWS Security Hub. AWS Security Hub consolidates alerts and findings from multiple AWS services including, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, as well as from AWS Partner Network (APN) security solutions, which Sysdig is already a part of. This single pane of glass gives you a comprehensive view of high-priority security alerts and compliance status across AWS accounts.