Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager, Anupam Vij, Principal Program Manager, Skye Zhu, Data and Applied Scientist 2, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In our 2020 retrospective, we highlighted shifts in the active cyberthreat landscape. With the huge surge in internet activity, particularly with the onset of…

Deployment patterns for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector with Amazon Elastic Container Service

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeployment patterns for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector with Amazon Elastic Container Service The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Cloud-native, distributed technology stacks are now the norm, but these architectures introduce operational challenges, which have led to the rise of observability. Several different…

ENISA says System Failure is on the Rise

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedENISA says System Failure is on the Rise The agency’s latest reports said that system failure comprises more than half of telecom incidents for 2020. Sixty-nine percent of incidents also affected the qualified trust services during the same year.

Implement AWS Config rule remediation with Systems Manager Change Manager

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedImplement AWS Config rule remediation with Systems Manager Change Manager AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config rules are evaluated when changes are made in the AWS environment. By analyzing changes as they occur, you can catch compliance violations quickly and minimize the exposure…