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So many businesses today are playing “Hungry, Hungry, (Data) Hippo,” devouring every marble of information they can get their hands on. While it seems like every company has a robust data aggregation system, what most companies don’t have is an efficient way to control what data they store and where that data goes. We all want to make data-driven business decisions, but sorting through tons of data to find useful business insights can be like finding a needle in a whole farm.

In a previous webinar, we discussed the importance of ensuring that your enterprise is cyber resilient and the politics around establishing a thriving cybersecurity practice within your organization. This week’s discussion covers specific tactics and solutions you can implement when you begin this initiative — watch the full webinar replay to learn more about how Cribl supports your cyber resiliency efforts.

In this live stream, Cjapi’s James Curtis joins me to discuss the challenges of building a distributed global security team. Watch the full video or read on to learn about some hard-won examples of how to be successful with remote team building and management. Talent is hard to find, and companies are hiring from all over the world to build the best teams possible, but this trend has a price.

In this livestream, Cribl’s Ahmed Kira and I explore the challenges of scaling your Cribl Stream architecture to accommodate a large number of agents, providing valuable insights on what you need to consider when expanding your Cribl Stream deployment. Managing data flows from a high volume of agents presents a unique set of challenges that need to be addressed.

In this livestream, Cribl’s Ahmed Kira and I go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, with a focus on scaling syslog. They share a few use cases, some guidelines for handling high-volume UDP and TCP syslog traffic, and talk about the pros and cons of some of the different approaches to tackling this challenge. It’s also available on our podcast feed if you want to listen on the go.

I’m launching a new Observability Series called the Observability Professor, and it is designed to cover some common topics and terms in a vendor agnostic way. That’s right, no marketing! So what’s special, what’s new, what’s it going to cover that everyone else in the industry missed? Background: There are endless amounts of blogs, papers, and books on Observability; what it is and what it offers.

Multiple Worker Groups are now live in Cribl.Cloud. Meaning, customers can add more Worker Groups to their Organization, gaining additional capabilities specific to Cribl.Cloud deployments! We offer flexibility, scalability, and cost management as part of this feature!

Cribl Stream provides a robust HTTP REST collector, with many features and options. Still, there are endless combinations that vendors can provide in their API endpoints. Sometimes you may need to take more extreme measures to unlock data stashed begin the API entry point. No worries! Cribl also allows you to run a script to collect that data, and can even help you scale it. In this blog post, we’ll cover how I completed this task for a recent interaction using Qualys.