The recent IBM 2019 Cost of Data Breach survey found that the cost of a data breach had risen 12% over the past 5 years to $3.92 million on average. While 51% of the data breach attacks were attributed to malicious or criminal actors, a stunning 24% of the breaches were caused by negligent employees or contractors. The report also notesed that the 51% of the criminal actors included, “malware infections, criminal insiders, phishing/social engineering and SQL injection.”

Logs have been important actors of cyber security environments for a while now. In this article, we will take a closer look on log monitoring and how it can help cyber security operations of your business.

Today’s digital perimeters grant authorized users anytime/anywhere access to sensitive business data. Because of this, SaaS-heavy IT environments introduce a higher complexity to threat detection and response efforts. User activity on SaaS accounts can be quite varied, occurring on multiple endpoints and from a variety of locations. Businesses must distinguish between legitimate and potentially illicit user activity on busy networks.

One of the most successful aspects of Kubernetes is how functional the open source community was able to operate. Kubernetes broke itself down in smaller sections called special interest groups, that operate similarly to subsections of the kernel. Each group is responsible for a single domain, and sets their own pace. One of the most important things to a Kubernetes SIG, is the residual SIG calls.