Organisations with large Splunk deployments, especially those using Splunk Enterprise Security, understand the importance of having data sources properly mapped to the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) data models. Poor CIM compliance yields poor security insights, as Splunk Enterprise Security utilises data model searches almost exclusively in its security use-case correlation searches. Something that has been […]
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Published by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Senior Consultant Thomas Smart and Associate Consultant KangZheng Li, in collaboration with AWS, provide an insight into AWS data transfer charges for server and Serverless architectures. In this blog, the authors uncover some hidden truths essential to accurate cloud cost estimations with the development of two key insight visuals. The first […]
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Introduction 2020 was a busy year for cyber-security with 3,950 confirmed data breaches. Varonis and the Ponemon Institute calculated the global average cost of a data breach to be $3.86 million – rising to $4.24 million in 2021. It is apparent that many companies are struggling to develop sufficiently robust systems that protect from cyber-security […]
Introduction As organisations adopt microservices for rebuilds and new applications, many will realise that the established ‘Test Pyramid’ approach to testing is considerably less effective than it was with traditional applications. The Test Pyramid emphasises unit tests that focus on the application’s individual functions and code. These comprise the bulk of this testing strategy, reflected […]
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Background Data Governance is often on top of the Chief Data Officer’s agenda. With the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the China Personal Information Protection Law (CPIPL) and others, companies are taking a closer look at their data practices. Beyond the need for regulatory […]
Introduction In our previous blog post, we learned about Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and the additional regulatory requirements that it carries. We covered three common requirements of PII regulation: Tracking Access; which talks about being able to audit who is accessing sensitive data, when they access it and where they access it. Protecting Data; which […]
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Introduction With a shift towards modern development practices, services architecture has become a goal for many of our heavily regulated and security conscious clients. As the shift towards cloud computing increases many clients are striving to understand the challenges and opportunities that a Serverless approach provides while defining what a scaled cloud implementation means for […]
Overview The past twenty-five years has seen a rapid decrease in the cost of genetic sequencing, from $2.7 billion dollars for the human genome project (completed 2003), to roughly $1000 dollars today. This decrease in cost has led to the development of the personal genomics testing via companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, who provide these […]
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