Technology juggernauts–despite their larger staffs and budgets–still face the “cognitive load” for DevOps that many organizations deal with day-to-day.That’s what led Spotify to build Backstage, which supports DevOps and platform engineering practices for the creation of developer portals. Eventually, Spotify made the decision to open source Backstage and donate it to the Cloud … [Read more...] about From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage
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Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
In a recent post, we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Below, we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM) or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free.What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see … [Read more...] about Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Open Source Ransomware Toolkit Cryptonite Turns Into Accidental Wiper Malware
Dec 06, 2022Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Data Security A version of an open source ransomware toolkit called Cryptonite has been observed in the wild with wiper capabilities due to its "weak architecture and programming." Cryptonite, unlike other ransomware strains, is not available for sale on the cybercriminal underground, and was instead offered for free by an actor … [Read more...] about Open Source Ransomware Toolkit Cryptonite Turns Into Accidental Wiper Malware
The Open Source Observability Adoption and Migration Curve
Open source monitoring and observability tools can be found in production all over the world – whether they’re being used by startups or entire enterprise development teams.DevOps, ITOps, and other technical teams rely on tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Nagios, Zabbix, Graphite, InfluxDB, and others to monitor and troubleshoot their cloud … [Read more...] about The Open Source Observability Adoption and Migration Curve
Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
Google on Thursday announced that it's seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, also known as GUAC, as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the software supply chain. "GUAC addresses a need created by the burgeoning efforts across the ecosystem to generate software build, security, and dependency metadata," … [Read more...] about Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
CrowdStrike Jointly Debuts Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework
CrowdStrike is excited to announce the release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project, a collaborative open-source effort among cybersecurity and technology leaders to break down silos that impede cybersecurity teams’ abilities to quickly and effectively detect, investigate and stop breaches. Detecting and stopping advanced cyberattacks demands coordination … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Jointly Debuts Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework
The secret is out: Why Open Security is key to preventing cyber threats
For decades, the cybersecurity industry has been shrouded in secrecy. This is partly because of the misunderstanding that cybersecurity often relies on obscurity as its primary form of defense. As the thinking goes, if adversaries don’t know about or understand the security controls that security vendors have in place, it will be easier to defend against cyberattacks.While the … [Read more...] about The secret is out: Why Open Security is key to preventing cyber threats
Continued leadership in open and transparent security
Elastic Security has long been open — with open source roots, open development, and the release of our SIEM in 2019. In 2020, we further embraced the openness of Elastic and released our open detection-rules repo to collaborate with our users and be transparent about how we protect customers. That repo is focused on our SIEM and Security Analytics use cases and did not yet … [Read more...] about Continued leadership in open and transparent security
Simplified SaaS Security for MSPs – Cisco Secure is now open in Canada
Managed services are an essential and fast-growing part of the security market, growing 14% annually. This opportunity presents new challenges MSPs must juggle day to day, including onboarding vendors and driving customer acquisition, all while making sure to provide robust IT solutions for your diverse set of clients. Clients are demanding more security and capabilities for a … [Read more...] about Simplified SaaS Security for MSPs – Cisco Secure is now open in Canada
APM Vision for Open Source and Security
Earlier this month, we shared exciting news with our first placement in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability: we are in the Visionary Quadrant. This research is near to my heart, as I led this research for four years; so, I wanted to reflect on why this is an accurate placement for Logz.io. The Visionary Quadrant is … [Read more...] about APM Vision for Open Source and Security