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5 Tips to Improve Network Security Monitoring
Optimizing network security monitoring requires pursuing continuous improvement. Even when people have monitoring tools or processes, it’s always advisable to identify weak spots and look for ways to reduce or eliminate them. Here are five options to consider. 1. Build a Digital Twin A digital twin is an exact digital replica of a physical asset … Continued
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How to Ace Your First On-Call Rotation
If you are a new IT professional or manage a young team of IT staff, you know it too well how intimidating it is to be assigned to an on-call rotation for the first time. You might be asking yourself questions such as, “Will an outage or breach unfold? Will I sleep through an alert? … Continued
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What Is IT Mapping and How Can it Prevent the Next Production Incident?
IT infrastructure mapping is the process of creating a visual topology of a network infrastructure. This mapping process helps understand the geographic and interactive layout of a network, which applications depend on. Using infrastructure mapping for troubleshooting, you can quickly understand the relationship between application issues and hardware issues. An IT infrastructure diagram can contain … Continued
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Critical Metrics and Alerts in the Continuous Delivery Process
What is Continuous Delivery? Continuous delivery is a software development approach in which code changes are automatically staged for production release. A foundation for modern application development, continuous delivery extends continuous integration by automatically deploying code changes to test and production environments after the build phase. When properly implemented, developers have deployable build artifacts that … Continued
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The Critical Role of Intrusion Prevention Systems in Network Security
What is an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)? An Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is a network security and threat prevention tool. Its goal is to create a proactive approach to cybersecurity, making it possible to identify potential threats and respond quickly. IPS can inspect network traffic, detect malware and prevent exploits. IPS is used to identify … Continued
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Kubernetes Lens: Improving Operational Awareness of Kubernetes Clusters
What is Kubernetes Lens? Kubernetes Lens is an integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to connect and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters on Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms. It is an intuitive graphical interface that allows users to deploy and manage clusters directly from the console. It provides dashboards that display key metrics and insights … Continued
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Recapping this year’s AWS re:Invent 2022
Amazon recently concluded their five-day long conference, AWS re:Invent 2022. This year’s conference was hybrid with the company streaming a significant portion of their in-person conference for free. For ten years now, the event has seen attendees across the cloud continuum come together to learn, share and get inspired. This year was no different as … Continued
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The Importance of Role-Based Messaging in Healthcare
Do you remember the classic board game where you have to go back and forth with your opponent deducing which characters on the board you’ve each selected? It’s still played by children today, and unfortunately by healthcare teams as well. Every day, healthcare teams are forced to play a game of “Guess Who?” is on-call … Continued
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Putting HC3’s Cyber Posture Recommendations into Practice
The Rising Threat of Cybercrime in Healthcare Of growing concern to both patients and the professionals who facilitate their care is the growing trend of healthcare organizations being preyed upon by cybercriminals. In the United States, recent political dialogue has brought special attention to patients’ privacy rights under HIPAA and the ongoing security of their … Continued
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The Five Main Components of a Fully Developed EHR System
The adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems has seen tremendous growth across geographies, especially in the US. According to American Hospital Association data shared by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, over 93% of American hospitals are enabled by some form of EHR in their organization. Implementing an EHR system … Continued
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