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Migrate self-managed Elastic stack to Elastic Cloud using Azure Blob Storage

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The process of migration involves taking a snapshot of the data in the self-managed Elastic stack, saving that snapshot to an Azure Blob Storage Container, and then restoring the snapshot to your Elastic Cloud deployment. Here’s a guided tour of all the steps to accomplish this right within your browser.While the migration process covered in this blog post migrates an Elastic … [Read more...] about Migrate self-managed Elastic stack to Elastic Cloud using Azure Blob Storage

Elasticsearch and data architecture: 4 essential tools for improved analysis and storage

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Organizations are becoming increasingly more reliant on data to make effective, evidence-based decisions to drive business outcomes. Whether this be assessing market conditions and improving customer experience, ensuring application uptime, or securing an organization, data from multiple sources — including consumers and internal systems — is critical to day-to-day … [Read more...] about Elasticsearch and data architecture: 4 essential tools for improved analysis and storage

Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Service

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A new piece of research from academics at ETH Zurich has identified a number of critical security issues in the MEGA cloud storage service that could be leveraged to break the confidentiality and integrity of user data. In a paper titled "MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry," the researchers point out how MEGA's system does not protect its users against a malicious server, … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Service

Slack’s New Logging Storage Engine Challenges Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch has long been the prominent solution for log management and analytics. Cloud-native and microservices architectures, together with the surge in workload volumes and diversity, have surfaced some challenges for web-scale enterprises such as Slack and Twitter. My podcast guest Suman Karumuri, a Sr. Staff software engineer at Slack, has made a career on solving this … [Read more...] about Slack’s New Logging Storage Engine Challenges Elasticsearch

Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances

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The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months. Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often underestimating novel and cloud-specific security or privacy issues. Nearly every … [Read more...] about Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances

Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers’ Storage

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What could be even worse than getting hacked?It's the "failure to detect intrusions" that always results in huge losses to the organizations.Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016.What's ironic is that the company detected the breach only after … [Read more...] about Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers’ Storage

Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected “Personal Vault” Within OneDrive Cloud Storage

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Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep your sensitive and important files protected and secured with an extra layer of authentication.Dubbed Personal Vault, the new OneDrive folder can only be accessed with an additional step of identity verification, such as your fingerprint, face, … [Read more...] about Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected “Personal Vault” Within OneDrive Cloud Storage