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PCI Compliance Logging: Complete Guide to Requirement 10

Of the 12 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements, Requirement 10 is one your platform team can engineer directly. Under the PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard, automated log review has been a tested requirement since March 31, 2025. Your assessor will test the mechanism that performs the review. This PCI compliance logging guide covers each 10.x sub-requirement, maps the seven event classes to log sources, and lays out a nine-step program you can hand to your assessor.
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5 AWS Logging Tips and Best Practices

If you're an Amazon Web Services (AWS) user, you're probably familiar with some of Amazon's native services available for logging and monitoring, such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail. With that said, log management can get complicated quickly, especially if you're dealing with a high volume of logs from AWS Lambda functions or a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud environment. In this blog, we'll introduce the basics of AWS logging along with five tips and best practices for optimizing your log management in AWS.

Help your Intercom AI agent answer outage questions with StatusGator

“Why aren’t my campaigns syncing to Salesforce?” “Your dashboard won’t load. Is something down?” When customers report a problem, your support team needs to understand whether it’s related to your product or a provider you depend on. Your AI support agent needs that context, too. By connecting StatusGator to Intercom through MCP, you can give Fin access to live status data and help it provide more useful answers during support conversations.

Who Really Screwed Up the PHP2Shell Security Crisis?

The PHP2Shell vulnerability triggered a massive cybersecurity crisis. But the real story isn't just about the PHP security flaw. It's about who broke the rules, who was responsible, and whether one controversial decision made everything worse. In October 2026, researchers uncovered critical PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that threatened websites and applications across the internet. As security teams scrambled to prepare patches, the coordinated disclosure process began falling apart.

How to Run an On-Call Schedule in Microsoft Teams

If your company lives in Microsoft Teams, your on-call schedule should live there too. An on-call schedule in Microsoft Teams means anyone in a channel can see who is on call right now, reach that person with one mention, and trust that the answer is correct without opening a separate tool or a stale spreadsheet. This guide covers the options Teams gives you out of the box, where each one breaks down, and a step-by-step setup that works for engineering, IT and support teams of any size.

How We Protect Our JavaScript Agent, and How to Host It Yourself

On October 29, a web performance script started emptying Polymarket wallets. The script belonged to DebugBear, a performance monitoring service a lot like Request Metrics. Polymarket ran it to measure how fast its site loaded for real visitors. Scott Helme’s analysis shows that cdn.debugbear.com stopped serving DebugBear’s script. An nginx server answered in its place with a script built to drain Polymarket accounts.

The Secure PaaS Alternative: Keep the PaaS Experience, Run It on Your Own Cloud

Railway, Northflank and seven other developer platforms disclosed breaches in October 2026. Here is why a shared PaaS turns one breach into everyone's breach, how Qovery gives you git-push deploys while your apps and data run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, and what Qovery still holds. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Filebeat filestream configs that pass test config but still fail

A Filebeat config can print Config OK and still exit on start, ship your multiline settings as event data, or send a whole log file to your stack twice. We found most of these while testing the Filebeat configs on our integration pages, then rebuilt each mistake, plus the migration traps around them, on Filebeat 8.19.23 and 9.5.5 to see exactly what happens.

Canvas Visual Thinking: Online Tools That Give Students Room to Map Ideas

Canvas visual thinking means working on an open workspace where you place ideas, link them, and rearrange them until the structure makes sense. Adobe Acrobat's mind map maker gives students a ready-made structure: upload notes or readings as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, or TXT files, and it maps the main ideas, with no sign-up required.