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The fleet management industry has been quick to embrace technology. They want to understand the current state of vehicles and drivers to improve operations and safety. Data privacy laws are especially important as fleet managers expand their reach into new territories. WayKonnect is using InfluxDB Enterprise to improve the fleet management industry.

It’s a mystery why the film community felt an iconic movie like “Grease” needed a reprise. But alas, “Grease 2” hit the big screen and ushered in new teen angst themes around bowling and the talent show.

The Splunk Security Research Team has been working on Kubernetes security analytic stories mainly focused on AWS and GCP cloud platforms. The turn has come now for some Azure Kubernetes security monitoring analytic stories. As outlined in my "Approaching Kubernetes Security — Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk" blog post, when looking at Kubernetes security, there are certain items within a cluster that must be monitored.

Between late 2019 and early 2020, I interviewed more than 200 CTOs of growing US and EU startups on the topics of the Cloud and their working methodologies. I discovered that 86% of these SMB startups use the Cloud and that 48% started their business on Heroku and then migrated to a Cloud provider - especially AWS (Amazon Web Services).

June was the month where many of us stretched our legs, glad to be out of quarantine — and then immediately went back inside due to fears of a second wave. “One step forward, one step back,” offers an adequate summary of life in a pandemic. It’s also a sentiment that applies to the ongoing challenge in mitigating glitches and outages.

Flowmon has recently joined Fortinet’s Open Fabric Ecosystem by integrating with FortiGate and FortiSIEM. This cooperation brings automated system for threat detection and response, blocking security risks in their infancy, and giving time to administrators to carry out forensics.