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Hi {NAME}, The Register: Tech Resources - 21 April 2022 ### Attack Surface Management This GigaOm report is one of a series of documents that helps IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria. The difficulties and challenges of rapid digital growth, cloud adoption, and sprawling public internet space create a bonanza of opportunities for attackers. Organizations are unable to accurately identify their rapidly changing attack surface and vulnerabilities. Compounding this problem is the lack of visibility into the risks presented by the dynamic nature of the attack surface. In response, attack surface management (ASM) provides value through continuous discovery and insight into an organization’s attack surface. Before going further, it is important to define a few key concepts that allow us to better understand ASM. The “attack surface” includes all of your public-facing services, APIs, applications, IPs, domains, certificates, and infrastructure regardless of the host type (VM, container, bare metal) or location (on-premises or cloud). ASM takes the attack surface (“AS”) and builds a proper management process (“M”) around it. This includes automated asset discovery and tracking of asset details. Adding this “M” to the “AS” gives us ASM. An organization’s attack surface is a dynamic object. It can change daily, if not more often. Tracking these changes in an automated fashion is key for an ASM solution. But simply knowing the entirety and composition of the attack surface is not sufficient. Enumerating the types of assets in your attack surface and the severity of those risks, then helping teams prioritize and remediate those risks efficiently, rounds out the value proposition that an ASM solution creates. Download Now ### Kubernetes Data Protection This GigaOm report is one of a series of documents that helps IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria. Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration, and it’s being used by born-in-the-cloud startups and cloud-native enterprises alike. In 2021, Kubernetes was in production on-premises, in the cloud, and even at the edge for many different types of applications, including those that Kubernetes wasn’t initially built for. Kubernetes was never really built for stateful applications, and by default, it lacks features for data protection. However, we see many organizations building and running their stateful applications on top of Kubernetes, indicating there’s a gap in functionality between what Kubernetes offers and what the (enterprise) market wants. Unfortunately, existing data protection tools, mostly built for legacy technologies such as virtual machines, do not fit well into the container paradigm. Vendors are adapting existing solutions or creating new products from scratch that are often better aligned with the cloud-native and container paradigms. Download Now ### Leveraging Observability To Build Better Applications Observability initiatives are currently top of mind for many DevOps teams. In today's world of complex, distributed, hybrid cloud applications, improved visibility and application performance is crucial to ensuring a great digital experience for customers. Learn why observability matters for your team and what to consider when evaluating observability platforms and solutions. Highlights * Why observability matters in DevOps * Considerations for an observability solution * How can unified observability help me * Getting started with Elastic Observability Download Now ### Five Cyber Threat Trends For 2022 This report consolidates findings from Darktrace’s worldwide Cyber Analyst team to present five overarching trends observed in the Darktrace Customer Community in 2021. Significant developments have been identified within each trend to help indicate what organizations should be looking out for in 2022 and beyond. Key trends explored include the expansion of ransomware tactics beyond encryption, supply chain exploitation, cloud account takeovers and advanced phishing. In each case, a real-world case study highlights how threat actors are innovating to evade traditional security defenses, and shows how these attacks can be stopped by an AI technology which learns its surroundings to stop never-before-seen attacks. This report summarizes key trends observed across Darktrace’s customer base, including the rise of supply chain attacks and new ransomware developments. Download Now ### Navigating The SaaS Security Jungle The introduction of the cloud brings many benefits to companies, from collaboration to cost savings. But with so many SaaS applications being used, companies face many security risks, from shadow IT to data protection to compliance requirements. While companies are attempting to secure their adoption of the cloud using built-in data protection capabilities in SaaS applications and platforms, these capabilities differ from provider to provider, and app to app, and generally provide only basic security capabilities. Using Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) is another approach but with severe limitations that don’t allow organizations to keep up with SaaS hyper growth. In this ebook, learn about the current challenges of SaaS adoption, why traditional remedies don’t work and how to safely adopt SaaS apps and secure data with an a natively-integrated CASB available from both your network firewall and SASE platforms.Take back visibility and control over applications, users and data by keeping pace with the SaaS explosion in your enterprise. Download Now ### Cyber Security & What To Expect In 2022 In this session, Rubrik President, Dan Rogers sits down with an esteemed panel of industry experts, and security thought leaders to discuss the evolving threat landscape, what to expect in the coming year, and how your organization can stay a step ahead. You'll hear from Vasu Jakkal, CVP of Microsoft Security, Identity, Compliance and Privacy, Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet, and Enrique Salem, Former CEO at Symantec, and Partner at Bain Capital. This is a conversation you will not want to miss! Download Now ### Build A Modern, Unified Analytics Data Platform Inefficient organizational structures and architectural decisions contribute to the gap that companies have between aggregating data and making it work for them. Companies want to move to the Cloud to modernize their data analytics systems, but that alone doesn’t solve the underlying ssues around siloed data sources and brittle processing pipelines. Strategic decisions around data ownership and technical decisions about storage mechanisms must be made in a holistic way to make a data platform more successful for your organization. In this paper, we will discuss the decision points necessary in creating a modern, unified analytics data platform built on Google Cloud Platform. Download Now ### SD-WAN Platforms Software-defined wide-area networking, or SD-WAN, is a flexible, enabling solution transmitting packets of data over various pathways based upon predetermined factors. Traditionally, WAN connections were made via a single carrier such as AT&T, Verizon, or Comcast. SD-WAN begins to shine when two or more pathways or carriers are used, providing increased performance to traditional data centers and the cloud. Traffic from voice and video conferencing is bandwidth-taxing, and SD-WAN solutions determine which route these IP packets should take based upon analysis of current traffic flows and frequent network testing. All traffic is routed by taking into account the predetermined priority of the application, the available bandwidth, and what other traffic is being sent. Download Now ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2022 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. 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