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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

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Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

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Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform.

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What is container orchestration?

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Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

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Dynatrace commitment to safe OneAgent releases: Protecting your production environment

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It automatically discovers and monitors each host’s applications, services, processes, and infrastructure components. OneAgent provides end-to-end visibility, capturing real-time performance data and detailed metrics on CPU, memory, disk, network, and processes.

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What is cloud application security?

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If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

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Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. What is a security vulnerability?

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Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

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Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer. Additionally, problems can be caused by changes in the cloud infrastructure.