Lightstep Incident Response brings service context and automation to address outages
Lightstep announced that it is creating a differentiated portfolio for app development with the general availability of Lightstep Incident Response. The new solution will enable developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) to reduce downtime through the integration of service context and automation for responding to incidents, such as a software bug, power outage, or down … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Trousseau
Trousseau is an open-source project based on Kubernetes Key Management Service (KMS) provider design that is designed to be a framework for any KMS provider. This works to provide users with a way to store and access secrets the Kubernetes native way with any externalKMS. Once deployed, Trousseau brings seamless secret management by using native … continue reading
Zenoss launches Cloud Developer Center
The AI-driven full-stack monitoring provider Zenoss announced the launch of its new public developer center. While the existing community focuses on crowdsourced development of extensions for the free Zenoss Community Edition product, the new developer center platform enables community development of tools for cloud-based IT monitoring and AIOps. The new edition enables Zenoss cloud customers … continue reading
Report: Majority of companies use up to nine different tools for observability
A majority of companies are struggling with tool sprawl when it comes to observability. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in partnership with the Observability Technical Advisory Group, recently released the results of its microsurvey on cloud native observability, and found 72% of respondents reported using up to nine different tools geared at logging, metrics, … continue reading
Linkerd adds new multi-clustered failover features
Buoyant, creator of the open-source Linkerd service mesh, has announced the release of automated cluster failover functionality in Linkerd. With this release, application traffic will be automatically redirected to alternate Kubernetes clusters in case of failures or outages in the original cluster. This works to allow applications which were built on Kubernetes to continue to … continue reading
Google Cloud acquires Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Google entered into a definitive agreement to acquire threat intelligence provider Mandiant for approximately $5.4 billion. Upon the close of the acquisition, Mandiant will join Google Cloud. Mandiant gathers research from more than 300 intelligence analysts to power its dynamic cyber defense solutions that are delivered through the managed multi-vendor XDR platform, Mandiant Advantage. Together … continue reading
New study finds that enterprises are struggling to keep endpoints updated and secure
The cloud-native IT operations provider, Automox, today unveiled the findings of its third annual State of IT Operations Report. The findings revealed that the challenge of managing endpoints has become even bigger than it was in the Automox 2021 report. Additionally, the report showed that many organizations continue to struggle with the challenges of utilizing … continue reading
DENT 2.0 released
DENT 2.0 is now available with new features that can be utilized by distributed enterprises in retail and remote facilities. The DENT project is an open-source network that uses the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux-based projects. DENT was launched in December 2019 under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation with the aim to simplify … continue reading
No one is cyber-secure in a cyberwar
The potential for cyberattacks has placed many organizations beyond Ukraine on high alert for any threats, and has left them wondering what they can do to bolster their security posture. “Unlike traditional warfare, which generally only has impacts in and around a specific conflict zone, cyberattacks can have far-reaching impacts beyond the initial target that … continue reading
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity partnered up to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity in light of increased cyber threats. The new Critical Infrastructure Defense Project will provide free cybersecurity services to vulnerable industries. Eligible organizations will have access to the full suite of Cloudflare Zero Trust solutions, endpoint protection, and intelligence services from CrowdStrike. The project will … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CoreDNS
CoreDNS is an open-source DNS server that offers chaining of plugins. Individual plugins are used for tasks like Kubernetes service discovery, Prometheus metrics, rewriting queries, or serving from zone files. Other key capabilities include signing zone data on-the-fly, load balancing, enabling zone transfers, caching DNS responses, and serving as a proxy to forward queries to … continue reading
IRConf: the first conference dedicated to incident response
In this time of rapidly evolving digital transformation, the ability to quickly identify and remediate problems has become more important than ever. In order to address this issue, Kintaba created IRConf, a conference dedicated to the discussion of effective incident response strategies. This conference is the first of its kind and is set to be … continue reading
Amazon announces new capabilities to enable IPv6 workloads to communicate with IPv4 services
Amazon announced two new capabilities for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Nat gateway and Amazon Route 53. These new capabilities will allow IPv6-only workloads to transparently communicate with IPv4-only services. Amazon announced these capabilities as a response to the difficulty that companies were having with letting workloads continue to communicate with IPv4 services and to … continue reading
VMware announces new container runtime security capabilities
VMware unveiled new container runtime security capabilities to provide end-to-end security for cloud-native applications. The new capabilities aim to target the security challenges of containerized applications including how to allow only legitimate traffic in and how to enable least-privileged communications between services and defend against the lateral movement of attackers, according to the company. “Protecting … continue reading
