Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

How can organizations ensure that, even while handling the consequences of a cybersecurity incident, customers are satisfied, business objectives are met, critical systems are available and sensitive data is protected? This is where cyber resilience comes into play. Stress Test Crown Jewels. Practice Alternative Service Delivery.

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Lacework

MARCH 22, 2022

Visibility into your internal systems is critical but so is an understanding of the status of your service providers and the larger world around the organization. This issue comes to light at a time of heightened awareness around cybersecurity, due in large part to recent world events.

Exercises 98

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2024

Any significant contract without an associated SLA (reviewed by legal counsel) is open to deliberate or inadvertent misinterpretation. These should be reviewed and modified by the customer and legal counsel, however, since they are usually slanted in favor of the supplier. The SLA protects both parties in the agreement.

Technical Review 144

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xmatters

JULY 2, 2024

Incident response is a crucial process for any organization, addressing situations where services are disrupted, systems fail, or security incidents occur. Common security incidents include: Unauthorized Access Unauthorized access occurs when someone gains access to a system, network, or data without permission.

Systems Review 98

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 23, 2023

This means that the traditional advice of maintaining backups is no longer sufficient. Organizations have improved their ability to create and recover from backups, especially given redundancy capabilities in the cloud. In general, the cyber insurance industry will only insure an organization that shows evidence of data backups.

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Mobilunity

MAY 2, 2025

Typically, cloud cost deviations occur when actual spending exceeds the planned budget due to misconfigurations, unanticipated spikes in usage, or external circumstances such as provider pricing changes or regional outages. Regular configuration reviews and automated checks can help detect and resolve these issues.

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The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This allows for faster crash recovery on systems with many database files. We review new PostgreSQL features. This logic includes periodic health checks, high availability and failover, backup and restore, read replicas, regular maintenance operations, and others. We address breaking changes in the extension’s source code.

Azure 144

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They are unswayed by well-crafted narratives, emotional reviews by customers, or an executive’s influence. We like to reason about our businesses as if they are simple, predictable systems. The problem is that many businesses behave as complex systems which cannot be understood by studying its components in isolation.

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Linux Academy

MAY 13, 2019

We can always just restore from a backup and be up and running in a few hours. When isolating infected workstations, they should be left powered on with the network cables removed and all network adapters disabled within the operating system. Each step is documented in the incident response form as the exercise is played out.

Infrastructure 60

Infrastructure Exercises Backup Linux 60

Perficient

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Overview An EC2 instance faced Instance Status Check failures and was inaccessible through SSM due to a boot process transitioning into emergency mode. There are two types: “System Status Checks” and “Instance Status Checks.” Navigate to the EC2 dashboard and select “Instances.”

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Tandem

JULY 26, 2023

Organizations must continuously adapt and prepare for potential disruptions and system failures. A blame-free culture also encourages open communication and transparency, facilitating faster problem resolution and improving overall system stability.

Technical Review 52

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

An enterprise application security is about implementing a complete set of measures to protect a company’s software, systems, and networks from potential cyber threats. Also, the importance of regular updates and patch management protocols cannot be overstated when it comes to ensuring system resilience and mitigating vulnerabilities.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It comes in the form of a guide that will save you at least 2 times of cumulative effort, due to avoiding hidden traps and unobvious issues on your way to a shiny upgraded solution. End-to-end testing – to confirm system works under real-life conditions and scenarios. How do you do backups and restore them?

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Kaseya

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Let’s patch things up Although the cornerstone of any security exercise is patching, many companies fail to implement a robust patch strategy. Their tools and systems do not allow them to patch hundreds of endpoints simultaneously without inconveniencing the end users.

Insurance 52

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During a recent bill reduction exercise , we found significant savings in running our API service on Spot, and now look to use it wherever we can. Among the many benefits of this approach is that our deploy system is regularly exercised, and our services undergo restarts all the time. Deploys go out every hour.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Scalability and capacity planning: Moreover, capacity planning is difficult for businesses in the growth stage due to cyclical change in demand that places an unpredictable load on IT infrastructure. Although this setup is costly due to upfront investment in technology, many organizations find the security benefits outweigh the costs.

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Trigent

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Determine how many such requests were handled the previous year, and by multiplying them by the average handling time (AHT) required, you can evaluate the value of this whole exercise. The company links shippers and carriers and has an automated tracking and monitoring system to assign loads. Identify the use cases best suited for IPA.

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Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Technical Review 52

Brainvire

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Backup Data Regularly. Right from hackers, trojans, keyloggers to malware- anything can target your system to steal the data from your system. A firewall works as a barrier between these threats and your system. A firewall works as a barrier between these threats and your system. Backup Data Regularly.

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Tenable

MARCH 17, 2023

Plus, this private data could become public if a chatbot’s systems aren’t properly secured and it gets hacked or inadvertently exposes the information, the NCSC warned. billion in 2021 to $10.3 Questions customers should ask a cloud-provided generative AI operator include: How does it manage the data that users enter into query prompts?

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Groups ChatGPT Technical Review 52

Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Regularly testing and monitoring your systems for vulnerabilities. Keeping operating systems and software up to date. During application and code review assessments, Modus Create usually identifies between 5-10 critical DevSecOps-related vulnerabilities that could pose a severe threat. Social Engineering. Cyber Extortion.

Security 40

Security Weak Development Team Disaster Recovery Software Review 40

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

Not only do we have examples of great online applications and systems to point to and use for best practices, but the latest tools, frameworks, development platforms, APIs, widgets, and so on, which are largely developed today in the form of open source over the Internet, tend to accumulate many of these new best practices.

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Capgemini

JUNE 26, 2024

To thrive in this new landscape, financial organizations must adopt a top-down approach to cybersecurity, with board-level From smoke signals and carrier pigeons to high-tech devices and networks, like the telephone, internet, and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)/2G, the communication journey has come a long way.

Development Team Review 52

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

Not only do we have examples of great online applications and systems to point to and use for best practices, but the latest tools, frameworks, development platforms, APIs, widgets, and so on, which are largely developed today in the form of open source over the Internet, tend to accumulate many of these new best practices.

Strategy 74

Strategy Development Team Review Software Review Weak Development Team 74

James Shore

MARCH 12, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. How does this code fit into the rest of the system? In this exercise, one person writes a test. They can pair with a customer or tester to review recent changes, polish the application, or do exploratory testing. Your feedback is appreciated! Zero Friction.

Programming 56

Programming Software Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 56

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 26, 2009

Not only do we have examples of great online applications and systems to point to and use for best practices, but the latest tools, frameworks, development platforms, APIs, widgets, and so on, which are largely developed today in the form of open source over the Internet, tend to accumulate many of these new best practices.

Strategy 68

Strategy Development Team Review Software Review Weak Development Team 68

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

Not only do we have examples of great online applications and systems to point to and use for best practices, but the latest tools, frameworks, development platforms, APIs, widgets, and so on, which are largely developed today in the form of open source over the Internet, tend to accumulate many of these new best practices.

Strategy 52

Strategy Development Team Review Software Review Weak Development Team 52

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Data storage, logic hosting and monitoring tools exist and provide quick integration into existing system designs. And why build your own system monitoring or log aggregation solution when a service can be consumed? This core functionality is part of a public cloud, not an afterthought or a reconciliation exercise.

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

CIO

AUGUST 5, 2024

Catholic Health’s IT systems and those of its partners were crashing, with one of its radiology vendors being among the first to experience technical difficulties. Overall, it was a tense and challenging time as we had to work around the limitations imposed by the outage while maintaining the integrity of our systems.”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 26, 2024

Some risks may be acceptable to your business, and a threat modeling exercise can help your company identify what your acceptable risk appetite is. Understand the security posture of your AI, ML, and generative AI workloads by performing a Well-Architected Framework review.

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Tenable

MARCH 22, 2024

Protect cloud data via, for example, enforcing least privilege; creating immutable backups; and using object versioning. Employ secure cloud key-management practices. Implement network micro segmentation and end-to-end encryption. Use infrastructure-as-code to automate deployment of cloud resources.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. For an excellent and practical guide to incident response, see Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems [Beyer et al. Failure is a consequence of your entire development system. Furthermore, systems exhibit a drift toward failure.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

And the real question that will change our industry is “How do we design systems in which generative AI and humans collaborate effectively?” Domain-driven design is particularly useful for understanding the behavior of complex enterprise systems; it’s down, but only 2.0%. So the software development world is changing. We also saw 9.8%

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Tenable

MAY 26, 2023

This document’s recommendation is for enterprises to implement cross-organizational working groups to evaluate the risks, perform threat modeling exercises, and implement guardrails specific to their environment based on the risks highlighted,” the authors wrote. Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments.

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Tenable

JULY 13, 2021

The disclosure of zero day vulnerabilities in several Schneider Electric industrial control systems highlights the need to revamp cybersecurity practices in operational technology environments. . Because systems have to be taken down and thoroughly tested each time an update is made.

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The Cipher Brief

JANUARY 21, 2020

The emergence of the Chinese company Huawei as a leading provider of integrated telecommunications systems is seen as such a security threat that the U.S. The business of integrated telecommunications equipment, however, is not a “consumer” issue; it is about systems used by critical infrastructure. military and other U.S.

Telecommunications 43

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