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Dynatrace launches Databases app to provide DBA insights across all databases

Dynatrace

An adept DBA can identify signs of a potential distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by monitoring irregularities in metrics such as I/O wait times or CPU usage. A sudden surge in these metrics can suggest a brute-force attack on the database.

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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

One popular method of launching DDoS attacks involves using a compromised machine to produce a large volume of DNS queries to non-existent or invalid domains. In the case of an under-performing, unreachable, or unresponsive DNS server, you may also notice a significant increase in reported Timeout and ServFail(2) errors.

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Feature flags done right with the OpenFeature initiative and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Used by organizations for everything from assigning support tickets to managing failover regimes, feature flags enable DevOps teams to release software faster and more reliably. Employ a kill switch, for example, to detect a DDOS attack and automatically enable static content. But feature flagging can also introduce some issues.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. Their network is made up of over 60 POPs and supports IPv6 everywhere. They also recently introduced premium plans with DDoS protected servers and GeoDNS.

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MySQL Connection Security With Connection Control Plugins

Percona

As a database administrator, have you ever been in a situation when your database confronted a brute force attack? A brute force attack can be launched against a user account in MySQL. Hence, an attacker can launch a brute force attack against a MySQL user account at a rapid rate and can try many different passwords.

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Enterprise Cloud Security Strategy For 2024

Scalegrid

The ever-growing list of potential threats to cloud security includes misconfiguration, unauthorized access, insecure interfaces, account hijacking, data breaches, malware attacks such as phishing and denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), as well as SQL injections.

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Transforming Development with AWS

All Things Distributed

AWS Shield : protective Protective armor against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, available as Shield Standard and Shield Advanced. Shield Standard gives DDoS protection to all customers using API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, CloudFront, and EC2. We also added C# support for AWS Lambda.

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