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Grafana and Prometheus customized dashboards

Grafana analytics and visualization dashboards plus the Prometheus monitoring and alerting tool make possible extensive custom reporting and alerting systems.
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Photo by Dane Deaner on Unsplash

Reducing the Windows 10 attack surface

Windows attack surface reduction policies make significant progress in protecting your entire IT infrastructure.

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Cloud-native storage with OpenEBS

Software from the open source OpenEBS project provides a cloud-native storage environment that makes block devices available to individual nodes in the Kubernetes cluster.
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Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash

Kafka: Scaling producers and consumers

A guide to 10x scaling in Kafka with real-world metrics for high throughput, low latency, and cross-geographic data movement.

Harden your Apache web server

Cyberattacks don't stop at the time-honored Apache HTTP server, but a smart configuration, timely updates, and carefully considered security strategies can keep it from going under.
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Lead Image © ginasanders, 123RF.com

Protect privileged accounts in AD

Granular protection for highly privileged accounts is granted by the Protected Users group in Active Directory and Kerberos authentication policies.
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Lead Image © Yewkeo, 123RF.com

Endlessh and tc tarpits slow down attackers

Keep an attacker's connections open in an Endlessh "tarpit" or delay incoming connections with the more traditional rate-limiting approach of tc.
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Lead Image © zelfit, 123RF.com

MinIO: Amazon S3 competition

MinIO promises no less than a local object store with a world-class S3 interface and features that even the original lacks.
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Lead Image © Vlad Kochelaevskiy, 123RF.com

Machine learning and security

Machine learning can address risks and help defend the IT infrastructure by strengthening and simplifying cybersecurity.
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Lead Image © Dmitriy Shpilko, 123RF.com

Pulumi multicloud orchestrator

Pulumi promises a unified interface and surface for orchestrating various clouds and Kubernetes.