Twenty years ago, Microsoft introduced the concept of Patch Tuesday to “reduce the burden on IT administrators by adding a level of increased predictability and manageability.” The goal of Patch Tuesday was to provide needed structure around what was largely an ad hoc process. By consolidating the majority of security updates and required patches into a planned release cycle, … [Read more...] about The Impact of Microsoft’s Vulnerability Problem
problem
Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.Observability ≠ logs + metrics + tracesHowever logs, metrics and traces are, by … [Read more...] about Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
The XDR Solution to the Ransomware Problem
During a ransomware attack, it is critical to detect and respond early and quickly. By decreasing your mean time to detection in identifying the attacker’s behavior, your security team can quickly investigate and respond timely to prevent a ransomware incident. And, if you can interrupt the attacker’s tools, tactics, or techniques early in the process that will force most … [Read more...] about The XDR Solution to the Ransomware Problem