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GDPR and Data Loss Protection: A Guide to Safeguarding Your Data

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on May 25, 2018. Hailed as the most significant change in data privacy regulations in two decades, GDPR was the result of years of intense activity and discussions among legislators, consumer groups, the legal community, and data privacy specialists.

Splunk Phantom

If you work on a security team, you probably deal with a complex security infrastructure, including a range of technologies from multiple sources, in addition to limited resources to defend your organization. Fortunately, there’s a better way. Splunk Phantom — your go-to SOAR solution — comes to the rescue by integrating your team, processes and tools so you can bring your best defense forward in no time flat.

Introducing cf-remote: Tooling to deploy CFEngine

About a year ago, I wrote a small python script to automate installing and bootstrapping CFEngine on virtual machines in AWS. It had some hard coded IP addresses that I needed to update when I spawned new hosts, but other than that, it worked well. During manual testing, it saved me a lot of time instead of having to do things manually.