Splunk Events and Reporting
This session will detail Puppet's latest integration features with Splunk, which provided expanded Puppet event data to better manage your infrastructure from Splunk.
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Eight Reasons Enterprise Automation is Vital to Cloud Strategy Success
The cloud and Electric Vehicles (EVs) have a lot in common. Both are modern, fast, and agile. Both are also in great demand. Every street seems to have an EV parked somewhere. It’s the same with the cloud, which is fast becoming the platform of choice to power enterprise applications. Whether it is public, private, or hybrid, the cloud offers flexibility, security, and low total cost of ownership.
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How to Automate the Handling of Suspicious User Behavior
We live in a technological society, and cyber attacks are on the rise. Much of this fraudulent activity is linked to malicious actors or gangs of cyber criminals who are trying to exploit anything they can get their hands on. By using tools like Cobalt Strike or customized alternatives, they attempt to penetrate an organization's defenses in order to gain leverage, exfiltrate PIIs, plant ransomware or CnC beacons, or perform other kinds of malicious acts.
PE Metrics in Splunk: Puppet Report Viewer 3.1
A number of improvements have been made to the Puppet Report Viewer add-on for Splunk since it was initially released. The most notable changes added in version 3.1 of the add-on are the tracked metrics, allowing for better troubleshooting of performance issues in your Puppet installation.
Announcing CFEngine Build
Earlier this year, we hinted at what we were working on - a place for users to find and share reusable modules for CFEngine. Today, the CFEngine team is pleased to announce the launch of CFEngine Build: The new website, build.cfengine.com, allows you to browse for modules, and gives you information about how to use each one of them. When you’ve found the module you were looking for, it can be downloaded and built using the command line tooling.
Puppet announces GSA listing, Carahsoft partnership
I’m excited to share Puppet’s increased commitment to government agencies through a new relationship with Carahsoft. Through this relationship, Puppet, the industry leader in infrastructure automation, will increase its availability of Puppet Enterprise on preferred government purchasing vehicles, like the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70, NASA SEWP, and a number of other federal, state, and local contracts.
CFEngine: The Agent Is In 6 - Running CFEngine On IoT (Part 2)
"CFEngine: The Agent Is In" is our monthly webinar series, where we show new features, teach best practices, and keep the community informed about everything CFEngine. To register for the next webinar, click here.
4 Ways to Automate Controlled Access to Sensitive Data
Controlling access to sensitive data is tough. Be too restrictive, and your employees run into too many roadblocks to do their jobs effectively. Too loose, and you are effectively guaranteeing that your organization will find itself on the front page as a victim of one of the many data breaches happening every day. That is why it is important to craft an effective data security strategy: one that relies on automation and oversight to ensure the privacy of your users’ data.
Full Circle: From Puppet to Google and Back Again
Deepak and Kelsey have a long history in a shared industry — they both worked at Puppet when it was still called Puppet Labs, and collaborated on some of the most exciting projects that made Puppet what it is today. Join Deepak and Kelsey for a fireside chat during which they’ll discuss the evolution of configuration management and automation, how their careers have overlapped and diverged, and what they envision for the future of cloud and ops.
4 Tips to Streamline Intelligent IT Automation Deployment
According to a recent global survey by Deloitte, 73%of respondents said their organizations have officially embarked on a path to adopting intelligent IT automation. That being said, only 26% of survey respondents that are piloting automations and 38% of those implementing and scaling actually have an enterprise-wide intelligent IT automation strategy. So, what’s standing in their way?