Traditional backup methods, though useful, often struggle to keep up with the complexities and constant changes in Kubernetes environments. This is where synthetic backup comes in—a revolutionary approach that significantly improves data protection. In this article, we explore what synthetic backup is and why it’s a better option than traditional methods. We discuss the specific benefits it offers for Kubernetes applications, including real-world examples and technical insights.

In November 2023, Datadog announced the launch of Security Inbox, a solution that equips security and engineering teams with valuable insights for mitigating security risks. Security Inbox takes the guesswork out of addressing the most pressing security risks by automatically organizing them into an actionable list for remediation. As of today, Security Inbox has already served thousands of security and engineering teams, giving them the right context at the right time for protecting their environments.

One doesn’t have to be a magician to understand how to track the hundreds, if not thousands, of applications that are running on your network. To lighten the load and eliminate the need for having supernatural abilities, let’s go over some simple tasks a security defender can take to track, detect, and even block application threats.

SPIFFE stands for Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone, and aims to replace single-factor access credentials with a highly scalable identity solution. This blog post provides some practical applications of SPIFFE in real-world environments.

Australian and New Zealand financial service institutions (FSIs) are facing pressure to innovate quickly while maintaining robust security and regulatory compliance. Many, like ANZ Bank and Commonwealth Bank, are exploring Generative AI to accelerate software development, but is it a silver bullet?

You can mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks by regularly backing up your data, updating your device with the latest software, implementing least-privilege access, using a business password manager and educating employees about security awareness, among other things. Ransomware attacks occur when organizations are prevented from accessing files and data until they’ve paid a ransom to the cybercriminal who infected their devices with malware.

The Trustwave SpiderLabs team regularly collects a trove of data while protecting clients from email-based attacks. HTML attachments, malicious QR codes, and business email compromise (BEC) are the favored attack methods. A recent snapshot of data from June 2024 from Trustwave MailMarshal shows that email-based threat actors still favor HTML attachments to deliver a variety of malware types.