ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keycloak
With Keycloak, users can add authentication to applications and secure devices with minimum effort. The project provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more. Keycloak provides single-sign out, which means users only have to log out once to be logged out of all applications that use Keycloak. By configuring the Identity Provider … continue reading
Report: Millions in lost revenue caused by Internet disruptions
A new Catchpoint survey in collaboration with Forrester Consulting found that nearly 40% of all respondents suffer customer-impacting disruptions, which cost up to $1 million per month. For most of those companies – mostly consumer brands and retailers with a significant volume of online transactions and a company size of over 1,000 employees – even … continue reading
Google Cloud VMs can now be suspended
Google Cloud launched a new generally available feature called “VM suspend/resume,” which enables users to save money by temporarily suspending virtual machines (VMs) on Google Compute Engine when they are not in use, and then resuming them when needed. In the suspended state, users no longer have to pay for cores or RAM and instead … continue reading
AWS Chatbot can now be used for troubleshooting from within Microsoft Teams
AWS announced that teams can now use AWS Chatbot to troubleshoot and operate AWS resources from Microsoft Teams. This provides a more streamlined way to interact with AWS services from the Teams platform, allowing users to quickly access resources and services, and to receive notifications. The integration also supports user authentication for secure access to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Grafana Phlare
Grafana Phlare is an open-source observability tool for continuous profiling at a massive scale. This helps users get a better understanding of resource usage in their applications down to the line number. The project was announced in 2022 at ObservabilityCON. The project natively integrates with Grafana, making it possible for users to correlate their profiling … continue reading
Report: Public resolvers account for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage
Public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage, while telecom giants represent nearly 9%, according to application traffic solution provider NS1. NS1 used its DNS Insights to analyze more than 7.5 trillion DNS queries and 15.1 trillion packets over a 90-day period in late 2022 to gather the data. The … continue reading
Dell strengthens security with new services and solutions portfolio
Dell launched new services and solutions to strengthen their security portfolio and to protect its customers from cyber threats and malicious attacks. The company released its Dell Technologies Managed Detection and Response Pro Plus fully managed security operations solution with capabilities that block routes to cyber-attacks and accelerate the recovery process if an attack occurs. … continue reading
Cloudflare announces integrations with Microsoft, Atlassian, and Sumo Logic
Cloudflare announced new integrations with Atlassian, Microsoft, and Sumo Logic to offer wider availability for its zero-trust security platform. “Today’s CISOs are tasked with securing a complex matrix of applications, tools, and devices that inherently require a Zero Trust approach. That’s why we continue to expand Cloudflare One to make it as seamless as possible, … continue reading
SentinelOne adds new integrations to Singularity Marketplace
The autonomous cybersecurity platform SentinelOne announced integrations with Revelstoke, Fletch, Code42, and KnowBe4 to offer new use cases in the Singularity Marketplace. Organizations can optimize their security workflows by integrating SentinelOne Singularity Platform with Revelstoke‘s Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) capabilities, allowing for the automation of alert triage and incident remediation. SentinelOne alert triage … continue reading
1Password announces Unlock with Single Sign On
Unlock with Single Sign On (SSO) enables enterprise customers to unlock 1Password accounts using Okta. 1Password stated that it is planning to add sign-on options with Azure AD and Duo in the coming months. “Securing employees at scale is no small task. At 1Password, we believe that the foundation of enterprise security is secure employees, … continue reading
Code42 and SentinelOne announce integration to enable companies to better respond to insider threats
Cybersecurity solution providers Code42 and SentinelOne announced an integration between the Code42 Incydr solution with the SentinelOne Singularity Platform. This integration gives users a better view of their confidential information and strengthens their ability to respond to insider threat incidents. Organizations will be able to access Incydr’s response capabilities, which will allow security analysts to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Wireshark
Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer, or “sniffer” available for Linux, macOS, *BSD, other Unix and Unix-like operating systems, as well as for Windows that lets users see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It’s a continuation of a project started in 1998. The tool uses Qt as the GUI and libpcap … continue reading
