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Ivanti: Protect Against 85% of Cyberattacks

The CIS Top 5 provide the building blocks of a solid security foundation and provide the essential cybersecurity hygine all companies should have in place. Follow their recommendations and you'll be able to prevent 85% of modern cyberattacks. But sometimes that's easier said than done. Let Ivanti IT security expert Chris Goettl guide you through the CIS framework and share best practices for boosting your security defenses.

Ivanti is FedRAMP Authorized

Ivanti® Service Manager has recently achieved the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorized designation. Join Ivanti CISO Phil Richards, Americas Federal AVP Dan Willbricht, ITSM expert Alan Taylor and Fed Product Marketing Manager Rob DeStefano as they share what this means for federal agencies and existing Ivanti Service Manager customers.

AWS: How did we monitor the cloud in 2019?

We had a busy 2019 with a substantial number of Amazon Web Service (AWS) integrations into Site24x7, each providing a seamless monitoring experience for our customers. The increasing number of paid AWS monitors is proof that we enhanced the monitoring expectations in 2019. In case you missed any updates about the AWS monitoring platform, here's a year-end review.

New features in EventSentry v4.1

Brief overview of all new features in v4.1, including NetFlow malicious traffic detection, enhanced performance monitoring via command line output capture, Active Directory password reminder emails, BitLocker, Pending Reboot & battery detection, lots of visual & functional improvements to the web reports and more!

5 Pitfalls to Kafka Architecture Implementation

Let’s face it—distributed streaming is an exciting technology that can be leveraged in many ways. Use cases include messaging, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and event sourcing, among others. Distributed streaming can result in significant benefits for companies that choose to use it, but, when not implemented correctly, it can initiate a frustrating technical debt cycle. How do you know if you’re properly implementing Kafka in your environment?

What are the alternatives to hiring a DevOps?

Congratulations!! After 3 months of hard work, your developer has done an incredible job and your brand new web application is ready to be put online. But wait a minute… Who is going to put it online? Try to ask your developer to do it - there is a good chance that he can’t. Why? Deploying applications is not necessarily a part of their qualifications. And even if he is able to, who's going to make sure it's always available and scale as your business grows?