May 16, 2020 bestdevops CyberSecurity Leave a comment

Why machines protecting themselves is the future of cybersecurity

Source:-cloudcomputing-news.net Bottom Line: Existing approaches to securing IT infrastructure are proving unreliable as social engineering and breach attempts succeed in misdirecting human responses to cyber threats, accentuating the need for machines to protect themselves. Any nation’s digital infrastructure and the businesses it supports are its most vital technology resources, as the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear. Cybercriminal and advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are attempting to capitalise on the disruption that COVID-19 is creating to engage in malicious cyber activity. It’s

February 24, 2020 bestdevops Nagios Leave a comment

Use this Nagios monitoring tutorial for proactive IT monitoring

Source:-searchitoperations.techtarget.com Learn how to install and run Nagios to monitor your organization’s IT assets. Follow these steps so you’re prepared to catch problems before they get out of hand. IT administrators today must be proactive — rather than reactive — through aggressive and continuous monitoring of IT infrastructure. It’s their job to catch potential issues early, and save businesses from costly extended outages, data loss — or both. Nagios, an IT system monitoring tool, enables admins to catch issues before

October 17, 2019 bestdevops Docker Leave a comment

Cryptojacking worm infects exposed Docker deployments

Source:- csoonline.com Graboid is the first known instance of a cryptomining worm used to create botnets spread using containers. Attackers are exploiting Docker Engine deployments that are exposed to the internet without authentication to deploy and run cryptojacking malware on servers. A new cryptojacking botnet with self-spreading capabilities has infected over 2,000 such Docker deployments so far. “There have been incidents of cryptojacking malware spreading as a worm, but this is the first time we see a cryptojacking worm spread using containers in the Docker Engine

September 19, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloud Computing Boosts Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Study

Source – cxotoday.com Cloud computing is completely changing the way enterprises see and approach IT. The shift can be traced to SaaS applications and has now found prominence in data centers with a larger focus on hybrid cloud initiatives. A latest study by Evaluator Group survey of enterprise IT administrators found that 62 percent are of the opinion that a hybrid cloud infrastructure is in their long-term future and 58 percent believe they would increase their hybrid cloud workload in 2017. John Webster,