The document discusses how Scalar, EMC, and Splunk can help optimize IT infrastructure for Canadian businesses through innovation, expertise, and services. It provides an overview of Scalar's client solutions in areas like security, cloud, and integrating emerging technologies. Use cases for Splunk analytics in IT operations, security, and IoT are also examined. The document explores consulting services around solution design, deployment, and customization.
The document summarizes the findings of a 2016 cloud study that interviewed 211 IT and business decision makers from Canadian organizations about their cloud adoption. It found that 59% have adopted cloud, but 48% lack a formal cloud security policy. While security remains a top concern, it is no longer seen as a barrier to cloud. Only 23% feel they are doing enough on cloud security. Both cloud workloads and budgets are expected to increase in the next 1-3 years. Experienced cloud users emphasize the importance of planning, assessment and having a formal roadmap for successful cloud migration.
2016 Scalar Security Study: The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organiza...Scalar Decisions
Highlights of the 2016 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2016. The full report can be downloaded at: scalar.ca/security-study-2016
The document provides an overview of cloud computing perspectives from Scalar Decisions. It defines cloud computing based on NIST's definition and discusses pragmatic industry changes like automation, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go models. It outlines cloud characteristics, service models, and deployment models. It also discusses Scalar's approach to cloud including strategic partnerships, consulting offerings, self-managed cloud, and managed cloud services. Finally, it covers cloud security elements and an approach to security by design.
CASB — Your new best friend for safe cloud adoption?
The explosive growth of cloud adoption, “cloud first” initiatives and BYOD have created security and compliance blind spots.
Forcepoint’s session examines the growing popularity of the Cloud Access Security Broker as a means to assist security leaders to support business innovation and manage cloud risk.
This document discusses securing cloud applications and summarizes Forcepoint's cloud security products. It begins by noting the transition to cloud computing and issues like shadow IT. It then summarizes Forcepoint's cloud access security broker (CASB) solution, which provides visibility into cloud application usage and allows enforcing policies. It describes CASB capabilities like discovery, risk assessment, and control of sanctioned and unsanctioned applications. The document also discusses how Forcepoint CASB integrates with other Forcepoint products and can extend their functionality to cloud applications and security use cases.
The document summarizes the findings of a 2016 cloud study that interviewed 211 IT and business decision makers from Canadian organizations about their cloud adoption. It found that 59% have adopted cloud, but 48% lack a formal cloud security policy. While security remains a top concern, it is no longer seen as a barrier to cloud. Only 23% feel they are doing enough on cloud security. Both cloud workloads and budgets are expected to increase in the next 1-3 years. Experienced cloud users emphasize the importance of planning, assessment and having a formal roadmap for successful cloud migration.
2016 Scalar Security Study: The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organiza...Scalar Decisions
Highlights of the 2016 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2016. The full report can be downloaded at: scalar.ca/security-study-2016
The document provides an overview of cloud computing perspectives from Scalar Decisions. It defines cloud computing based on NIST's definition and discusses pragmatic industry changes like automation, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go models. It outlines cloud characteristics, service models, and deployment models. It also discusses Scalar's approach to cloud including strategic partnerships, consulting offerings, self-managed cloud, and managed cloud services. Finally, it covers cloud security elements and an approach to security by design.
CASB — Your new best friend for safe cloud adoption?
The explosive growth of cloud adoption, “cloud first” initiatives and BYOD have created security and compliance blind spots.
Forcepoint’s session examines the growing popularity of the Cloud Access Security Broker as a means to assist security leaders to support business innovation and manage cloud risk.
This document discusses securing cloud applications and summarizes Forcepoint's cloud security products. It begins by noting the transition to cloud computing and issues like shadow IT. It then summarizes Forcepoint's cloud access security broker (CASB) solution, which provides visibility into cloud application usage and allows enforcing policies. It describes CASB capabilities like discovery, risk assessment, and control of sanctioned and unsanctioned applications. The document also discusses how Forcepoint CASB integrates with other Forcepoint products and can extend their functionality to cloud applications and security use cases.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities of cloud security from the perspective of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It outlines key issues like legal jurisdiction, privacy protection, and lack of transparency from cloud providers. The CSA aims to address these issues by creating a global trusted cloud ecosystem through research, standards, and education. It has grown significantly since its founding in 2009 and now has over 44,000 members worldwide.
Let us understand some of the infrastructural and
security challenges that every organization faces today
before delving into the concept of securing the cloud
data lake platform. Though Data lakes provide scalability,
agility, and cost-effective features, it possesses a unique
infrastructure and security challenges.
Robert Brzezinski - Office 365 Security & Compliance: Cloudy Collaboration......centralohioissa
Collaboration often drives how we work especially when our workforce is mobile, when it is working off premises and serving clients in the field. Our employees adopt cloud solutions to communicate, exchange ideas and files, and to collaborate without our knowledge…this approach keeps security officers sleepless not only in Seattle but also in Columbus…
This presentation is an overview of Office 365 functionality, security and compliance (reporting) capabilities to manage information privacy, security and compliance risks, and related documentation. Office 365 email security and management, SharePoint collaboration platform and Azure Active Directory reporting will be reviewed. This is a business/technical (not in depth technical) presentation to help business / technical audience understand the security and functionality of Office 365 solution when considering cloud solutions adoption.
This document provides 63 requirements for evaluating Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions. It covers key areas like visibility, data loss prevention, access control, cloud service provider risk management, threat protection, and non-functional requirements. The requirements are intended to help create a baseline for evaluating CASB solutions and determining what is most important for an organization. Comments or questions can be directed to the provided contact.
FS-ISAC APAC Summit 2017 Singapore - Of Crown Jewels and Data AssetsPuneet Kukreja
When organisations today connect digitally and the concept of a network is found to be fast disappearing. Mobile and Cloud solutions are being enabled across the enterprise to aid digital agendas. Calls for agility by the business are driving CIOs and CISOs to look for effective trust-based service enablement models that can help cater to business demand.
IBM Security Strategy Intelligence, Integration and Expertise
by Marc van Zadelhoff, VP, WW Strategy and Product Management and Joe Ruthven IBM MEA Security Leader
An agile based software development approach offers many advantages of an iterative and fast-paced process. However, customers often find themselves at crossroads when it comes to choosing a specific adoption path. Organizational culture and mindset are critical to the success of distributed agile projects. Enterprises need the right partner who can address all of these and deliver projects efficiently.
The document discusses the major security concerns organizations have regarding cloud environments. The top concerns include: data loss/leakage due to the ease of sharing data in the cloud (69% of organizations), data privacy and confidentiality (66%), accidental exposure of cloud credentials (44%), difficulty performing effective incident response in the cloud (44%), and legal/regulatory compliance challenges (42%). Other concerns include data sovereignty/residence/control, as organizations may not know where their data is physically stored.
Cloud security: Accelerating cloud adoption Dell World
Organizations now have an opportunity to more rapidly overcome their security concerns by using third-party cloud platforms. In this session, Dell SecureWorks security experts discuss the Shared Security Responsibility model, how organizations need to think about security architecture in the cloud, and new Dell SecureWorks services that are helping organizations plan, architect, manage and respond to threats in the cloud.
Protecting health and life science organizations from breaches and ransomwareCloudera, Inc.
3 Things to Learn About:
* 1. Ransomware is a particular problem and currently the highest priority for healthcare organizations. Machine learning can use the structure of a malicious email to detect an attack even before the email is opened.
* 2. Big data architectures provide the machine-learning models with the volume and variety of data required to achieve complete visibility across the spectrum of IT activity—from packets to logs to alerts.
* 3. Intel and industry partners are currently running one-hour, complimentary, confidential benchmark engagements for HLS organizations that want to see how their security compares with the industry .
Rethinking Cybersecurity for the Digital Transformation EraZscaler
The document summarizes a company's journey of transforming their network and security architecture to the cloud over 5 phases. Some key points:
- Phase 1 consolidated their WAN vendor and migrated email/collaboration tools to Office 365 to simplify their infrastructure.
- Phase 2 deployed the Zscaler Cloud Security Platform to enable local internet access from branches instead of deploying appliances to 870 locations.
- Phase 3 eliminated more on-prem appliances and deployed Zscaler services to provide consistent security for mobile users.
- Phases 4-5 migrated applications to cloud platforms, consolidated data centers, and deployed Zscaler Private Access to provide a zero-trust network model and simplified application access without VPNs.
Office 365 is widely adopted but its native security is limited. While cloud apps provide benefits, they also increase risks like lack of visibility, easy external sharing, and access from unmanaged devices. A cloud access security broker (CASB) can address these risks with a more holistic, data-centric approach through features like real-time data protection across all apps and devices, user behavior analytics, and centralized identity management. This provides stronger security for organizations using cloud apps like Office 365 than relying solely on native app security controls.
MT81 Keys to Successful Enterprise IoT InitiativesDell EMC World
Success with enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives begins with strong partnerships between IT and operations technology (OT) organizations and identifying relevant use cases with measurable ROI. Next, choosing the right IoT architecture and technology requires determining the capabilities are needed at the edge and what are needed in the cloud and datacenter to minimize cost and enable analytics-driven action. This session will discusses the challenges involved with introducing sensors and smart devices into your network, including building infrastructure and analytics capabilities , and securing data and applications. Learn how Dell'S IoT-specific gateways, edge analytics software and infrastructure solutions provide flexible architecture options for multiple IoT use cases.
Scalar Security Roadshow: Toronto Presentation - April 15, 2015Scalar Decisions
On April 15, 2015, Scalar hosted our Security Roadshow in Toronto where we'll be focused on defence in three key areas - endpoint, application, and network. Led by our team of experts, these quick-fire, interactive sessions will arm you with the knowledge you need to improve your cyber security posture in some of the most common areas of vulnerability.
Defend the Endpoint with Bromium
Bromium is a new security protection tool for the host that relies on task-based virtualization. In this demo we'll look at how Bromium runs and protects the endpoint. We'll invite 0days from the audience and bring our own to show how the system really works. Much like how each virtual server is contained in a hypervisor, with Bromium each individual task on a host is contained in its own task-based virtual container. If you’ve ever looked at the Windows Task Manager, or the output of a Unix ‘ps’ process list, imagine if each group of processes, that makes up the task, was contained in its own hypervisor. That can be 40-50 tasks or more, each isolated in its own little hypervisor with no real access to the host.
Why is task virtualization helpful? By keeping each task in its own hypervisor, Bromium gives you a bottoms-up view of each individual task’s behaviour – without impacting system performance. If each process is contained in its own hypervisor, it’s easy to see when a process begins spawning other activities or creating any unusual traffic. Basically, it can very easily identify anything shifty. This is the most granular level of inspection you can get at a host level – Bromium is there at the very beginning when the virus begins to execute.
Defend the Application with WhiteHat
In this session we will look at a newer approach to application security and penetration testing, which combines persistent and automated testing processes to continuously monitor applications for vulnerabilities, as well as deep inspection of the business logic by trained specialists. This approach exceeds newer PCI 3 requirements and provides ongoing assurance that web application vulnerabilities are quickly detected and tracked to remediation.
We'll walk through the WhiteHat Security client management portal and discuss the WhiteHat methodology that can now be used, by you, to leverage the 150+ application specialists at WhiteHat to build a continuous application assessment process for your company's active web applications and software development teams.
Defend the Network with LogRhythm
As the security landscape changes, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools that detect and investigate security breaches and threats have become increasingly complex to implement, integrate, and support. Inefficient solutions leave organizations slow to defend against and respond to complex attacks.
LogRhythm’s Security Intelligence Platform has removed the complexity from SIEM, while leveraging real-time threat intelligence with behavioural an
Mindtree distributed agile journey and guiding principlesMindtree Ltd.
Agile is all about delivering business value in short iterations at a sustainable pace, adapting to changing business needs. Agile software development focuses on early delivery of working software and considers working software as the primary measure of progress. It creates an environment that responds to change by being flexible and nimble. It discourages creation of extensive documents that do not add any value.
Data Privacy, Security, and Sovereignty in a Cloudy WorldNetskope
Jon Oltsik, ESG Senior Principal Analyst and widely recognized information security expert, reviews what it means to ensure data privacy, security, and sovereignty, and what you should be looking for from your cloud providers.
One of the most important parts of the cloud is security. Your data is protected by both advanced threat protection and redundancy from cloud to cloud backup.
This document provides information on database security. It discusses how database security protects confidentiality, integrity and availability of databases. It also discusses the importance of database security to prevent data loss or compromise. Some of the largest data breaches in 2018 are summarized, including breaches of Aadhaar and Facebook that exposed over 1 billion and 87 million records respectively. Common attack vectors and frameworks for implementing database security are referenced. Finally, the document outlines a methodology for implementing proven database security practices around inventory, testing, compliance, eliminating vulnerabilities, enforcing least privileges, monitoring for anomalies, data protection, backup plans, and responding to incidents.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its history, models, architecture, security concerns, and importance. Cloud computing allows users to access software and store data on remote servers rather than local hardware. It has evolved from early concepts in the 1950s-60s to platforms like Amazon Web Services today. There are three main service models: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Cloud computing also raises issues around data protection, identity management, and compliance with varying legal requirements across jurisdictions. Overall it allows for improved data storage, maintenance, and security compared to traditional computing.
Terabyte-scale image similarity search: experience and best practiceDenis Shestakov
Slides for the talk given at IEEE BigData 2013, Santa Clara, USA on 07.10.2013. Full-text paper is available at http://goo.gl/WTJoxm
To cite please refer to http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2013.6691637
Scalar Security Roadshow - Vancouver PresentationScalar Decisions
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly. In this quick-fire, half-day roadshow, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems from three of our most strategic security vendors, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities of cloud security from the perspective of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It outlines key issues like legal jurisdiction, privacy protection, and lack of transparency from cloud providers. The CSA aims to address these issues by creating a global trusted cloud ecosystem through research, standards, and education. It has grown significantly since its founding in 2009 and now has over 44,000 members worldwide.
Let us understand some of the infrastructural and
security challenges that every organization faces today
before delving into the concept of securing the cloud
data lake platform. Though Data lakes provide scalability,
agility, and cost-effective features, it possesses a unique
infrastructure and security challenges.
Robert Brzezinski - Office 365 Security & Compliance: Cloudy Collaboration......centralohioissa
Collaboration often drives how we work especially when our workforce is mobile, when it is working off premises and serving clients in the field. Our employees adopt cloud solutions to communicate, exchange ideas and files, and to collaborate without our knowledge…this approach keeps security officers sleepless not only in Seattle but also in Columbus…
This presentation is an overview of Office 365 functionality, security and compliance (reporting) capabilities to manage information privacy, security and compliance risks, and related documentation. Office 365 email security and management, SharePoint collaboration platform and Azure Active Directory reporting will be reviewed. This is a business/technical (not in depth technical) presentation to help business / technical audience understand the security and functionality of Office 365 solution when considering cloud solutions adoption.
This document provides 63 requirements for evaluating Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions. It covers key areas like visibility, data loss prevention, access control, cloud service provider risk management, threat protection, and non-functional requirements. The requirements are intended to help create a baseline for evaluating CASB solutions and determining what is most important for an organization. Comments or questions can be directed to the provided contact.
FS-ISAC APAC Summit 2017 Singapore - Of Crown Jewels and Data AssetsPuneet Kukreja
When organisations today connect digitally and the concept of a network is found to be fast disappearing. Mobile and Cloud solutions are being enabled across the enterprise to aid digital agendas. Calls for agility by the business are driving CIOs and CISOs to look for effective trust-based service enablement models that can help cater to business demand.
IBM Security Strategy Intelligence, Integration and Expertise
by Marc van Zadelhoff, VP, WW Strategy and Product Management and Joe Ruthven IBM MEA Security Leader
An agile based software development approach offers many advantages of an iterative and fast-paced process. However, customers often find themselves at crossroads when it comes to choosing a specific adoption path. Organizational culture and mindset are critical to the success of distributed agile projects. Enterprises need the right partner who can address all of these and deliver projects efficiently.
The document discusses the major security concerns organizations have regarding cloud environments. The top concerns include: data loss/leakage due to the ease of sharing data in the cloud (69% of organizations), data privacy and confidentiality (66%), accidental exposure of cloud credentials (44%), difficulty performing effective incident response in the cloud (44%), and legal/regulatory compliance challenges (42%). Other concerns include data sovereignty/residence/control, as organizations may not know where their data is physically stored.
Cloud security: Accelerating cloud adoption Dell World
Organizations now have an opportunity to more rapidly overcome their security concerns by using third-party cloud platforms. In this session, Dell SecureWorks security experts discuss the Shared Security Responsibility model, how organizations need to think about security architecture in the cloud, and new Dell SecureWorks services that are helping organizations plan, architect, manage and respond to threats in the cloud.
Protecting health and life science organizations from breaches and ransomwareCloudera, Inc.
3 Things to Learn About:
* 1. Ransomware is a particular problem and currently the highest priority for healthcare organizations. Machine learning can use the structure of a malicious email to detect an attack even before the email is opened.
* 2. Big data architectures provide the machine-learning models with the volume and variety of data required to achieve complete visibility across the spectrum of IT activity—from packets to logs to alerts.
* 3. Intel and industry partners are currently running one-hour, complimentary, confidential benchmark engagements for HLS organizations that want to see how their security compares with the industry .
Rethinking Cybersecurity for the Digital Transformation EraZscaler
The document summarizes a company's journey of transforming their network and security architecture to the cloud over 5 phases. Some key points:
- Phase 1 consolidated their WAN vendor and migrated email/collaboration tools to Office 365 to simplify their infrastructure.
- Phase 2 deployed the Zscaler Cloud Security Platform to enable local internet access from branches instead of deploying appliances to 870 locations.
- Phase 3 eliminated more on-prem appliances and deployed Zscaler services to provide consistent security for mobile users.
- Phases 4-5 migrated applications to cloud platforms, consolidated data centers, and deployed Zscaler Private Access to provide a zero-trust network model and simplified application access without VPNs.
Office 365 is widely adopted but its native security is limited. While cloud apps provide benefits, they also increase risks like lack of visibility, easy external sharing, and access from unmanaged devices. A cloud access security broker (CASB) can address these risks with a more holistic, data-centric approach through features like real-time data protection across all apps and devices, user behavior analytics, and centralized identity management. This provides stronger security for organizations using cloud apps like Office 365 than relying solely on native app security controls.
MT81 Keys to Successful Enterprise IoT InitiativesDell EMC World
Success with enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives begins with strong partnerships between IT and operations technology (OT) organizations and identifying relevant use cases with measurable ROI. Next, choosing the right IoT architecture and technology requires determining the capabilities are needed at the edge and what are needed in the cloud and datacenter to minimize cost and enable analytics-driven action. This session will discusses the challenges involved with introducing sensors and smart devices into your network, including building infrastructure and analytics capabilities , and securing data and applications. Learn how Dell'S IoT-specific gateways, edge analytics software and infrastructure solutions provide flexible architecture options for multiple IoT use cases.
Scalar Security Roadshow: Toronto Presentation - April 15, 2015Scalar Decisions
On April 15, 2015, Scalar hosted our Security Roadshow in Toronto where we'll be focused on defence in three key areas - endpoint, application, and network. Led by our team of experts, these quick-fire, interactive sessions will arm you with the knowledge you need to improve your cyber security posture in some of the most common areas of vulnerability.
Defend the Endpoint with Bromium
Bromium is a new security protection tool for the host that relies on task-based virtualization. In this demo we'll look at how Bromium runs and protects the endpoint. We'll invite 0days from the audience and bring our own to show how the system really works. Much like how each virtual server is contained in a hypervisor, with Bromium each individual task on a host is contained in its own task-based virtual container. If you’ve ever looked at the Windows Task Manager, or the output of a Unix ‘ps’ process list, imagine if each group of processes, that makes up the task, was contained in its own hypervisor. That can be 40-50 tasks or more, each isolated in its own little hypervisor with no real access to the host.
Why is task virtualization helpful? By keeping each task in its own hypervisor, Bromium gives you a bottoms-up view of each individual task’s behaviour – without impacting system performance. If each process is contained in its own hypervisor, it’s easy to see when a process begins spawning other activities or creating any unusual traffic. Basically, it can very easily identify anything shifty. This is the most granular level of inspection you can get at a host level – Bromium is there at the very beginning when the virus begins to execute.
Defend the Application with WhiteHat
In this session we will look at a newer approach to application security and penetration testing, which combines persistent and automated testing processes to continuously monitor applications for vulnerabilities, as well as deep inspection of the business logic by trained specialists. This approach exceeds newer PCI 3 requirements and provides ongoing assurance that web application vulnerabilities are quickly detected and tracked to remediation.
We'll walk through the WhiteHat Security client management portal and discuss the WhiteHat methodology that can now be used, by you, to leverage the 150+ application specialists at WhiteHat to build a continuous application assessment process for your company's active web applications and software development teams.
Defend the Network with LogRhythm
As the security landscape changes, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools that detect and investigate security breaches and threats have become increasingly complex to implement, integrate, and support. Inefficient solutions leave organizations slow to defend against and respond to complex attacks.
LogRhythm’s Security Intelligence Platform has removed the complexity from SIEM, while leveraging real-time threat intelligence with behavioural an
Mindtree distributed agile journey and guiding principlesMindtree Ltd.
Agile is all about delivering business value in short iterations at a sustainable pace, adapting to changing business needs. Agile software development focuses on early delivery of working software and considers working software as the primary measure of progress. It creates an environment that responds to change by being flexible and nimble. It discourages creation of extensive documents that do not add any value.
Data Privacy, Security, and Sovereignty in a Cloudy WorldNetskope
Jon Oltsik, ESG Senior Principal Analyst and widely recognized information security expert, reviews what it means to ensure data privacy, security, and sovereignty, and what you should be looking for from your cloud providers.
One of the most important parts of the cloud is security. Your data is protected by both advanced threat protection and redundancy from cloud to cloud backup.
This document provides information on database security. It discusses how database security protects confidentiality, integrity and availability of databases. It also discusses the importance of database security to prevent data loss or compromise. Some of the largest data breaches in 2018 are summarized, including breaches of Aadhaar and Facebook that exposed over 1 billion and 87 million records respectively. Common attack vectors and frameworks for implementing database security are referenced. Finally, the document outlines a methodology for implementing proven database security practices around inventory, testing, compliance, eliminating vulnerabilities, enforcing least privileges, monitoring for anomalies, data protection, backup plans, and responding to incidents.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its history, models, architecture, security concerns, and importance. Cloud computing allows users to access software and store data on remote servers rather than local hardware. It has evolved from early concepts in the 1950s-60s to platforms like Amazon Web Services today. There are three main service models: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Cloud computing also raises issues around data protection, identity management, and compliance with varying legal requirements across jurisdictions. Overall it allows for improved data storage, maintenance, and security compared to traditional computing.
Terabyte-scale image similarity search: experience and best practiceDenis Shestakov
Slides for the talk given at IEEE BigData 2013, Santa Clara, USA on 07.10.2013. Full-text paper is available at http://goo.gl/WTJoxm
To cite please refer to http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2013.6691637
Scalar Security Roadshow - Vancouver PresentationScalar Decisions
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly. In this quick-fire, half-day roadshow, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems from three of our most strategic security vendors, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
Scalar customer case study: Rainmaker EntertainmentScalar Decisions
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. is an animation studio that faced increasing costs and infrastructure challenges due to overlapping project schedules and global competition. To address this, Rainmaker helped form the Vancouver Studio Group with other local animation studios to create a shared cloud infrastructure. This led to the development of Scalar StudioCloud, a managed infrastructure-as-a-service solution running on over 1,300 high-performance servers. The pay-per-use model reduced costs by 50% while providing access to advanced technology and flexible scaling to support large projects.
Task Incident Readiness with Veris, Judy Nowak at TASK Toronto, April 27, 2...patmisasi
The document discusses the need for organizations to have an incident response (IR) framework to adequately prepare for security incidents. It introduces the VERIS framework, which can help lay the foundation for an IR program by describing attacks. VERIS provides a common vocabulary for recording and sharing information about security incidents and helps organizations understand the variety of actions, actors, assets, and attributes involved in incidents to improve detection and response capabilities. The document advocates that understanding details about incidents through frameworks like VERIS is important because organizations cannot detect or respond to what they do not understand or know about attacks and attackers.
Presentations from the Toronto Stop of the Scalar Security Roadshow on March 4, covering technologies from Palo Alto Networks, F5, Splunk, and Infoblox.
This document provides an overview of Alfa Tech VestAsia, an engineering firm that delivers projects globally. It outlines the company's history and services, describes their approach to project design and management, and highlights selected projects in Asia-Pacific and worldwide between 2010-2012. These included data center, cleanroom, and industrial projects for clients like JDSU, Savvis, Silecs, and Ichor Systems.
The document summarizes an upcoming Security Road Show event in Vancouver that will feature presentations from several cybersecurity vendors. It will include sessions on network visibility and threat prevention from Palo Alto Networks, web application protection from F5, big data security analytics from Splunk, and DNS security from Infoblox. The day-long event on an unspecified date will open with welcome remarks and include breaks between the 30-minute vendor presentations, followed by closing remarks and a Q&A period, and boxed lunches.
Session delivered by Scalar on Network Functions Virtualization. NFV allows for:
Rapid Service Deployment
– Ability to template and image NFV devices
– Deployment is as easy as copying an image and
spinning up a new VM
– Integration with Orchestration Stack
Elasticity
– Ideal for situations where temporary but large
scale increases in traffic and services exist
Lower Deployment Costs
– No additional hardware to purchase, as long as
resources exist in virtual environment
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly. In this quick-fire, half-day roadshow, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems from three of our most strategic security vendors, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
Scalar Decisions: Emerging Trends and Technologies in Storagepatmisasi
The document discusses emerging trends in storage technologies, including NAND/flash memory, object storage, and software defined storage. It provides an overview of Scalar, an IT solutions vendor, and various storage innovations including flash arrays, hybrid storage, and flash integrated directly into systems. Object storage separates metadata and data objects, and leaders in the field are developing open-source solutions like Ceph and OpenStack. Software defined storage virtualizes and abstracts physical storage, allowing for portability and flexibility. The trends are shaping next-generation cloud platforms through commoditization and higher levels of abstraction.
Heather Enlow & Chris Ingram - Cybersecurity Act of 2015 and Other Hot Privac...centralohioissa
This session will provide details on the new law and its requirements, as well as address the current threat landscape, summarize existing data security laws in the U.S., discuss the new EU cyber directive, and continued impact of the Safe Harbor decision. We will disentangle these regulatory changes and challenges and provide tips and tricks for compliance.
RFID is a technology that uses radio waves to identify objects electronically. It consists of tags that carry data, readers that can interrogate the tags, and software. Common applications include access control, asset tracking, supply chain management, and payment systems like Paywave. A survey found that respondents thought RFID could be applied to inventory control, logistics, library management, and healthcare. Further development is needed in medical and library uses. While RFID provides benefits over barcodes like storing more data, costs remain higher and standards are still being developed.
This document outlines an agenda for a Security Road Show event taking place in Calgary. The event will include presentations from four cybersecurity vendors: Palo Alto Networks, F5, Splunk, and Infoblox. There will be a welcome at 9:00am followed by 30 minute presentations from each vendor throughout the morning, ending at 11:30am. The event will conclude with a Q&A and boxed lunches will be provided.
Connect the Dots: Draw a Clear Picture of Social’s Impact on Business ResultsSpredfast
Every company has objectives for business growth. Social marketing should support these key goals. And measurement of social marketing efforts should speak directly to goal-based results. Learn how socially mature organizations are connecting the dots between social measurement and bottom line business results. Understand the principles guiding these efforts and see how social is being integrated with other areas (and systems) across the business.
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly.
Together with our event partners Cisco, F5, and Bromium, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
2013 Overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar Decisions is the Canadian leader in delivering innovative IT solutions focused on the data centre. Our practice focus is around virtualization & cloud, data management, networks and security. Our deliverables are built upon designing world class systems for our clients, deployment through services, validation of those designs and finally the ongoing monitoring and management of those systems. Recognized on the PROFIT list of the fastest-growing companies in Canada for the last four years (since we became eligible in year 5 of our business). In 2013, we were 94 on the overall list, but 15 within the IT industry, and one of the highest-revenue companies overall.
Canadian company with nationwide presence
Number 15 on the CDN List of Top 100 Solution Providers
Also named #46 on Branham300 of Canada’s leading ICT companies
We have a deep technical bench, we are not a call centre shipping product, we position ourselves as an extension of your business, and have the team in place to back this up
Though Scalar is in its 10th fiscal year, our founders have been doing this since 1990 when they were running Enterprise Technology Group (ETG). Since then that team has delivered over $1BN in mission-critical infrastructure.
Core infrastructure is our background, our experience, and the primary focus of what we do – it underpins our business.
As infrastructure has changed with the industry to be spread across public, private, hybrid etc, our customer needs have changed, and therefore so does our portfolio and focus. Today, we focus on building core infrastructure and then assisting our clients in securing it, ensuring it is running well (performance), and managing it (control).
Though core infrastructure is the delivery vehicle for all applications, we do not deal at the application layer – We deal with security, performance, and control only as they relate to core infrastructure. This focus allows us to be the very best at what we do.
We answer the questions:
Core Infrastructure – How to Build It?
Security – How to secure it?
Performance – How is it running?
Control – How to manage it?
Presentation from the 2016 Scalar Security Study Roadshow, highlighting the findings from the second annual Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, which examines trends among Canadian organizations in dealing with growing cyber threats.
This document provides information on 39 commercial real estate properties available for lease in Toronto, Ontario. The properties are located throughout downtown Toronto and range in size from 4,125 square feet to 1,262,137 square feet. Building details such as address, name, year built, renovation history, and typical floor size are provided for each property. Available space, asking rent, and lease terms are listed for several suites in several of the properties.
Colliers International has listed available commercial properties in Toronto, including space in two prominent towers - the Royal Bank Plaza North Tower and Royal Bank Plaza South Tower. Suites are available for lease immediately in both buildings, ranging in size from 2,000 square feet to 2,393 square feet. Rental rates start at $10 per square foot annually net with expenses of $33.25 per square foot annually. Parking is available for an additional fee. Chris Fyvie can provide more details on any of the available spaces.
Splunk for IT Operations Breakout SessionGeorg Knon
This document discusses how IT complexity is a challenge for CIOs due to siloed technologies, disconnected point solutions, and time spent maintaining rather than innovating. It presents Splunk as a solution that provides comprehensive visibility across infrastructure, applications, databases, and more through centralized data collection and analysis. Splunk reduces problem resolution time by 67% and escalations by 90% by enabling "first responders" to search across all IT data from a single interface. The document also outlines how Splunk apps can provide insights by role and technology and its capabilities for various IT functions like virtualization, storage, and operating systems.
This document discusses how IT complexity is a challenge for CIOs due to siloed technologies, disconnected point solutions, and time spent maintaining rather than innovating. It presents Splunk as a solution that provides comprehensive visibility across infrastructure, applications, and customer-facing data to help reduce problem resolution time and escalations. Specific benefits highlighted include consolidating logs from various systems into a single view, enabling faster identification and resolution of issues. The document also outlines how Splunk apps can provide insights by role and accelerate value through plug-ins and templates to analyze data from any source.
This document provides an overview of Splunk, Inc. including:
- Splunk is a software company founded in 2004 that provides data platforms for machine data including on-premise, cloud, and SaaS solutions.
- They have over 5,200 customers including 63 of the Fortune 100 and can process up to 100 terabytes per day for their largest license.
- Splunk's software delivers value across IT operations and security as well as business analytics by enabling users to gain operational visibility and real-time insights from machine data.
- Splunk supports use cases across various industries including retail, media, telecommunications, and manufacturing by helping customers turn machine data into valuable business insights.
Webinar splunk cloud saa s plattform für operational intelligenceGeorg Knon
This document discusses Splunk Cloud, a platform for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing machine data from any source. Some key points:
- Splunk Cloud can handle any amount and type of machine data from various online services, applications, devices, and systems, regardless of location.
- It offers universal indexing without needing to filter or schema data beforehand.
- The cloud portfolio includes apps for AWS, ServiceNow, and Salesforce, as well as deploying Splunk Enterprise as a service and analyzing data stored in cloud services.
- Splunk Cloud provides instant access, security, reliability with 100% uptime, and hybrid capabilities to search data across on-premises, private cloud and
Splunk provides a fully integrated platform for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing machine data from any source. The Splunk App for AWS integrates with AWS services like CloudTrail, Config, and VPC Flow Logs to provide visibility into AWS environments. It collects data from AWS SQS queues and S3 buckets using the AWS SDK. Setting up the Splunk App for AWS requires installing the Splunk Add-on for AWS and configuring permissions for AWS services. Users add their AWS account, and then must wait 5-10 minutes for dashboards and reports to populate with AWS log data.
Splunk provides a platform for operational intelligence that allows users to analyze machine data from any source. The document discusses Splunk products and solutions for IT service management, security intelligence, and Internet of Things applications. Splunk has over 11,000 customers across various industries.
Virtual Gov Day - Application Delivery Breakout - OverviewSplunk
Splunk is an industry-leading platform that allows users to index and search machine-generated data from any source, in any format, at any scale, in real-time and historical. It provides operational intelligence capabilities like search and investigation, proactive monitoring, and real-time business insights. Splunk delivers value across IT operations, security, compliance, fraud detection, application delivery, and business analytics.
This document provides an introduction to a course on big data and analytics. It outlines the instructor and teaching assistant contact information. It then lists the main topics to be covered, including data analytics and mining techniques, Hadoop/MapReduce programming, graph databases and analytics. It defines big data and discusses the 3Vs of big data - volume, variety and velocity. It also covers big data technologies like cloud computing, Hadoop, and graph databases. Course requirements and the grading scheme are outlined.
SplunkLive! Amsterdam 2015 Breakout - Getting Started with SplunkSplunk
Filip Wijnholds is a senior sales engineer at Splunk who joined the company in June 2015 after working at Intel Security for 4 years. He began his career in the networking industry working with packet capture software. The document provides an overview of Splunk's machine data platform and how it can ingest and analyze data from various sources. It also outlines the company's legal notices regarding forward-looking statements and product roadmaps.
Softcat Splunk Discovery Day Manchester, March 2017Splunk
This document provides an agenda for a Splunk conference on March 15th 2017 in Manchester. The agenda includes:
- An introduction and welcome from 09:30-09:45
- Two session from 09:45-12:15 on data-driven IT operations and best practices for security investigations
- A lunch break from 12:30-13:30
- The event concludes at 13:30
Getting Started with Splunk Breakout SessionSplunk
Splunk is a software platform that allows users to search, monitor, and analyze machine-generated big data via a web-style interface. It collects and indexes data from various sources like servers, networks, sensors, and applications. Splunk is used by over 9,000 customers across various industries for security intelligence, IT operations, and business analytics. It offers role-based access controls, multi-tenancy, and secure data transmission. Splunk components include universal forwarders for data collection, indexers for data storage, and search heads for data presentation.
Splunk is a platform for collecting, searching, monitoring and analyzing machine data from any source or volume. It indexes this untapped data and allows users to ask any question to gain insights. The architecture of Splunk allows it to collect data from various sources like servers, applications, networks and more. It then analyzes this data to provide insights for application delivery, security, IT operations, business analytics and more.
Splunk - Verwandeln Sie Datensilos in Operational IntelligenceSplunk
Splunk Software ermöglicht den Interessierten unter uns, das anzusehen, was andere ignorieren - Maschinendaten - und das zu finden, was andere niemals sehen - wertvolle Einblicke, durch die Ihr Team und Unternehmen produktiver, profitabler, wettbewerbsfähiger und sicherer wird.
Sind Sie schon neugierig, welche Informationen in Ihren Maschinendaten stecken?
In diesem Webinar zeigen wir Ihnen, warum über 11 000 Unternehmen, Splunk Software für folgendes nutzen:
- Beseitigung von Applikationsproblemen und Investigation von Security-Vorfällen in Minutenschnelle
- Vermeidung von Service-Problemen oder Ausfällen
- Einhaltung von Compliance Vorschriften zu niedrigeren Kosten
- Neue Einblicke in die Geschäftstätigkeit
Nehmen Sie teil an dieser Operational Intelligence Demo-Session und erfahren Sie mehr darüber, wie Sie und Ihr Team effizienter und produktiver arbeiten können.
Getting Started with Splunk Breakout SessionSplunk
Splunk is a software company that provides software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a web-style interface. The document discusses why organizations use Splunk, provides an overview of the company and its products, describes how Splunk works and how to get started with it. It also advertises Splunk's upcoming user conference to provide training, certification, and opportunities to learn from customers and partners about using Splunk.
What is Splunk? At the end of this session you’ll have a high-level understanding of the pieces that make up the Splunk Platform, how it works, and how it fits in the landscape of Big Data. You’ll see practical examples that differentiate Splunk while demonstrating how to gain quick time to value.
What is Splunk? At the end of this session you’ll have a high-level understanding of the pieces that make up the Splunk Platform, how it works, and how it fits in the landscape of Big Data. You’ll see practical examples that differentiate Splunk while demonstrating how to gain quick time to value.
Big Data LDN 2018: DATA MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION AND THE INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAI...Matt Stubbs
Date: 14th November 2018
Location: Governance and MDM Theatre
Time: 10:30 - 11:00
Speaker: Mike Ferguson
Organisation: IBS
About: For most organisations today, data complexity has increased rapidly. In the area of operations, we now have cloud and on-premises OLTP systems with customers, partners and suppliers accessing these applications via APIs and mobile apps. In the area of analytics, we now have data warehouse, data marts, big data Hadoop systems, NoSQL databases, streaming data platforms, cloud storage, cloud data warehouses, and IoT-generated data being created at the edge. Also, the number of data sources is exploding as companies ingest more and more external data such as weather and open government data. Silos have also appeared everywhere as business users are buying in self-service data preparation tools without consideration for how these tools integrate with what IT is using to integrate data. Yet new regulations are demanding that we do a better job of governing data, and business executives are demanding more agility to remain competitive in a digital economy. So how can companies remain agile, reduce cost and reduce the time-to-value when data complexity is on the up?
In this session, Mike will discuss how companies can create an information supply chain to manufacture business-ready data and analytics to reduce time to value and improve agility while also getting data under control.
What is Splunk? At the end of this session you’ll have a high-level understanding of the pieces that make up the Splunk Platform, how it works, and how it fits in the landscape of Big Data. You’ll see practical examples that differentiate Splunk while demonstrating how to gain quick time to value.
Streaming Cyber Security into Graph: Accelerating Data into DataStax Graph an...Keith Kraus
Traditional security tools like security information and event managers (SIEMs) are struggling to keep up with the terabytes of event data (250M to 2B events) being generated each day from an ever-growing number of devices. Cybersecurity has become a data problem, and enterprises need to reply with scalable solutions to enable effective hunting and combat evolving attacks. Rethinking the cybersecurity problem as a data-centric problem led Accenture Labs’s Cybersecurity team to use emerging big data tools along with new approaches such as graph databases and analysis to exploit the connected nature of the data to its advantage. Joshua Patterson, Michael Wendt, and Keith Kraus explain how Accenture Labs’s Cybersecurity team is using Apache Kafka, Spark, and Flink to stream data into Blazegraph and Datastax Graph to accelerate cyber defense.
Leveraging Datastax Graph and Blazegraph allows Accenture Labs to greatly accelerate query and analysis performance compared to traditional security tools like SIEM. Josh, Michael, and Keith share the challenges of fitting cybersecurity data into each of the graph structures, as well as the ways they exploited the connectedness of events to discover new threats that would have been missed in traditional SIEM tools. In addition, they explain how they use GPUs to accelerate graph analysis by using Blazegraph DASL. Josh, Michael, and Keith end by demonstrating how to efficiently and effectively stream data into these graph databases using best-in-breed technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, and Flink and touch on why Kudu is becoming an integral part of Accenture’s technology stack. Utilizing these technologies, clients have supercharged their security analysts’ cyber-hunting abilities and are uncovering threats faster.
Companies realize, to be successful, they must transform and deliver an enriched and full experience for both customers and the employees by:
• Integrating the entire business to deliver the results the customer and employee want, at every touch point.
• Establishing a frictionless enterprise platform, governed by a new, flexible operating model with adaptive and easily configurable processes and systems.
Digital Transformation: Enriching the user experience through strategy, process, people, and technology.
Highlights of the 2017 Scalar Security Study – The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations. The third annual Scalar Security Study examines the cyber security readiness of Canadian organizations and the trends in dealing with growing cyber threats.
Executive Summary of the 2016 Scalar Security StudyScalar Decisions
Executive Summary of the 2016 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2016. The full report can be downloaded at: scalar.ca/security-study-2016/
Disrupting the Malware Kill Chain - What's New from Palo Alto Networks.Scalar Decisions
Simon Wong and Chris Cram, Scalar security experts, discuss how Palo Alto Networks technology disrupts the entire malware kill chain. Attendees will also gain insight on flexible deployment options to better serve their mobile users, and how to get the most out of their Palo Alto Networks deployment.
The document summarizes a presentation about Nutanix and web-scale infrastructure. It discusses what web-scale is, including distributed intelligence and automation. It outlines why Nutanix is beneficial for businesses and IT departments. Nutanix uses commodity hardware and has all intelligence in software. It provides linear scalability, simplicity and lower costs. For IT, Nutanix is easy to manage through its Prism interface and provides features like monitoring, capacity planning and upgrades without downtime. The document demonstrates Nutanix through its Prism UI, showing dashboards, performance analysis, alerts and storage/VM management.
CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features.
Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management!
Discussion Topics:
Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms
This document is from Scalar Decisions Inc., an information and communications technology company. It discusses Scalar's expertise in security, infrastructure, and cloud services. Scalar has experience building data center infrastructure, virtualization, and high performance computing solutions. They also offer security services like protection, monitoring, threat assessments and strategy consulting. Scalar works with major technology vendors and has received several awards for their work with companies like Cisco, NetApp, VMware, F5 and Palo Alto Networks. They highlight case studies of projects for gaming companies, research institutions, and financial applications.
XtremIO finally delivers the breakthrough scale-out architecture, consistent performance, data reduction, thin provisioning, and manageability you’ve been waiting for in an enterprise flash array.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure: The Leading Edge of VirtualizationScalar Decisions
Hyper-convergence is today's leading edge of virtualization. Technologies have entered the market that have greatly simplified the deployment and maintenance of virtualized workloads. In this session, we will discuss the complexity associated with these types of highly virtualized environments and the modern approaches to reducing it.
Presentation from Scalar and NetApp discussing why CDOT is the promised land of storage and the future of NetApp, followed by a walk-through of the path to CDOT by one of Scalar's technical thought leaders.
The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian OrganizationsScalar Decisions
Highlights of the 2015 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2015. The full report can be downloaded at: http://hubs.ly/y0tFbr0
Where Technology Meets Medicine: SickKids High Performance Computing Data CentreScalar Decisions
Case study look at the work Scalar conducted on the High-Performance Computing Data Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). The system is able to do 107 trillion calculations per second - one of the largest systems dedicated to health research.
Scalar Customer Case Study: Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am GamesScalar Decisions
Toronto will soon host the largest international multi-sport Games in Canada, when more than 7,600 athletes from 41 countries across the Americas will compete at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Understandably,
IT security is top of mind for the Organizing Committee (known as TO2015). The event will rely on a number of applications and web portals, which include an interactive volunteer portal, athlete accreditation management
tools and a travel logistics site. Securing the data centre where these applications reside is of critical importance, ensuring risks are mitigated, threats are prevented and regulatory requirements are met.
Large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure for Sheridan College addresses multiple use cases, and contributes to College's goal to reduce energy consumption by 50% over the next 5 years.
The City of Airdrie replaced their aging networking infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership. They started by replacing one switch with a Brocade switch through partner Scalar, which was a success. Over three months, they replaced fourteen switches across five departments with Brocade switches. This provided improved visibility, control and ability to apply firmware updates without impacting users. The move to Brocade enabled the city to replace almost twice as many switches within their budget while including three years of support.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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devia=on
25
-‐mean
+
std.
dev
-‐Mean
-‐Mean
–
std.dev
26. Internet
of
Things
26
CorrelaQon
Criteria
" MAC
address
same
" Content
in
Search
Results
" Purchase
=me
Search
Results
(ApplicaQon
Logs)
Device
ID
(MAC
Address)
Time
of
Search
Content
Purchased
(IDA
#)
Device
(MAC
Address)
Time
of
Search
Amount
of
Purchase
($)
Billing
(Structured
Data)
Search
(Machine
Data)
Business
Value
" Revenues
driven
by
Search
" Improving
local
content
mix
" BeEer
search
results
" Tailor
content
promo=on
>
28. How
Splunk
Stores
Data
" As
Splunk
indexes
your
data
it
creates
a
bunch
of
files
– Raw
data
in
compressed
for
(rawdata)
– Indexes
that
point
to
the
raw
data,
plus
some
meta
data
files
(Index
Files)
" The
index
files
reside
in
directories
known
as
a
“bucket”
" A
bucket
Moves
through
Several
Stages
as
it
ages
– Hot
&
Warm
$SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/db/*
– Cold
$SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/colddb/
– Frozen
Archive
(Can
sEll
be
searched
and
thawed)
" File
name
Format
db_<newest_Eme>_<oldest_Eme>_<localid>_<guid>
28
29. Splunk
Index
Buckets
29
Bucket
Stage
DescripQon
Searchable?
Hot
Newly
Indexed
Data,
One
or
more
hot
buckets
per
Index
Yes
Warm
Data
rolled
from
hot.
There
are
many
warm
buckets
Yes
Cold
Data
rolled
from
cold.
There
are
many
cold
buckets
Yes
Frozen
Data
rolled
from
cold.
Splunk
deletes
frozen
data
by
default,
but
it
can
also
be
archived.
Archived
data
can
later
be
thawed
Can
be
30. Storage
Considera=ons
" Storage
requirements
!=
Index
Volume
(GB/day)
– Search
profile
and
number
of
searches
is
just
as
important
– Also
must
consider
data
reten=on
" Splunk
u=lizes
I/O
to
perform
both
Searching
AND
Indexing
– Load
=
Search
Volume
+
Indexing
Volume
– Index
load
is
write
intensive
– Search
load
is
read
intensive
against
the
data
searched
(current
vs
recent
vs
old)
– SSDs
generally
provide
higher
performance
over
HDDs,
but
at
a
cost
30
31. Storage
Considera=ons
" What
is
the
use-‐case?
– IT
Opera=ons
use-‐cases
typically
search
against
recent
data
(e.g.
–
0
to
14
days)
– Security
and
Analy=cs
use-‐cases
typically
search
all
data
(e.g.
–
days
to
months
to
years)
" What
is
the
typical
=me
span
of
the
data
searched?
– Most
ad-‐hoc
searches
are
against
current
or
recent
data
– Analy=cs
may
span
a
very
large
=me
frame
– Security
forensics
typically
search
all
data
– Reports
or
Aler=ng
Searches
might
be
over
the
past
day
or
week
31
32. Splunk
Index
Replica=on
–
High
Availability
32
2
Master
asks
the
redundant
peer
to
act
as
primary
3
Peers
copies
the
search
files
/
index
files
/
raw
data
2
3
1
Master
auto-‐detects
that
a
peer
is
down
1
• Default
is
3X
Replica=on
33. Scalable
Cluster
Base
Architecture
Send
data
from
1000s
of
servers
using
combina=on
of
Splunk
Forwarders,
syslog,
WMI,
message
queues,
or
other
remote
protocols
Auto
load-‐balanced
forwarding
to
as
many
Splunk
Indexers
as
you
need
to
index
terabytes/day
Offload
search
load
to
Splunk
Search
Heads
33
" Automa=c
load
balancing
linearly
scales
indexing
" Distributed
search
and
MapReduce
linearly
scales
search
and
repor=ng
34. Splunk
Real-‐Time
Analy=cs
Data
Parsing
Queue
Parsing
Pipeline
• Source,
event
typing
• Character
set
normaliza=on
• Line
breaking
• Timestamp
iden=fica=on
• Regex
transforms
Indexing
Pipeline
Real-‐=me
Buffer
Raw
data
Index
Files
Real-‐=me
Search
Process
Monitor
Input
Index
Queue
TCP/UDP
Input
Scripted
Input
Splunk
Index
34
35. Distributed
File
System
(semi-‐structured)
Key/Value,
Columnar
or
Other
(semi-‐structured)
RelaQonal
Database
(highly
structured)
MapReduce
Cassandra
Accumulo
MongoDB
Splunk
-‐
Big
Data
Technologies
SQL
&
MapReduce
NoSQL
Temporal,
Unstructured
Heterogeneous
Hadoop
RDBMS
HDFS
Storage
+
MapReduce
Real-‐Time
Indexing
35
Oracle
MySQL
IBM
DB2
Teradata
37. Image
Search
with
Hunk
hEp://blogs.splunk.com/2013/10/18/images-‐search-‐with-‐splunk-‐and-‐hunk/
37
• Image
search
on
HDFS
using
Splunk
• Select
images
based
on
ranges
of
color
• 3
parts
• The
Preprocessor
using
Hadoop
Record
reader
in
Java
• Splunk
Search
• Splunk
UI
• search
index=images
|
eval
score=color1+color2+
…+colorN
|
sort
-‐score
by
image
38. Why
Splunk
&
Hunk
• Schema
on
the
Fly
–
fast,
flexible,
interac=ve
analy=cs
experience.
• Interac=ve
Search
–
you
don’t
to
know
anything
about
the
data
in
advance,
Hunk
automa=cally
adds
structure
and
iden=fies
fields
of
interest,
keywords,
top
values,
and
paEerns
over
=me
• Results
Preview
–
query
results
are
streamed
back
in
real
=me.
Pause
and
refine
queries
without
having
to
wait
for
jobs
to
finish.
• Drag
and
Drop
Analy=cs
–
quickly
create
charts,
visuals
,
and
dashboards
using
pivot
• Rich
App
ecosystem
for
popular
applica=ons
and
data
types
• Hunk
–
Search
and
Report
on
na=ve
HDFS
without
inges=ng
the
data
38
39. Challenges
With
Open
Source
Analy=cs
• Open
source
sozware
such
as
Hadoop
and
Cassandra
require
significant
services
effort
—
as
much
as
20X
higher
personnel
costs
rela=ve
to
sozware
purchases.
• Challenges
Ge|ng
Value
from
Data
in
Hadoop
• Easy
storage
but
hard
analy=cs:
difficult
for
non-‐specialists
to
explore,
analyze
and
visualize
data
• Complex
technology:
wide
range
of
open
source
projects
• Hard-‐to-‐staff
skills:
must
write
MapReduce
jobs
or
pre-‐define
schemas
for
Hive
• Hadoop
was
designed
to
be
a
batch
job
processing
system,
ie
you
start
a
job
and
see
results
in
a
range
from
tens
of
minutes
to
days.
39
Gartner,
“Big
Data
Drives
Rapid
Changes
in
Infrastructure
and
US$232
Billion
in
IT
Spending
Through
2016”,
October
17,
2012
40. Splunk
and
Hadoop
40
" Hunk:
– Main
use
case
=
Analyze
Hadoop
Data
using
Hadoop
Processing
"
Splunk
Hadoop
Connect:
– Main
use
case
=
Real-‐=me
export
data
from
Splunk
to
Hadoop
" Hunk
Archive
– Main
use
case
=
Archive
Splunk
indexers
to
Hadoop
" Splunk
HadoopOps:
– Main
use
case
=
Monitor
Hadoop
41. 41
Integrated
Analy=cs
Pla•orm
Full-‐featured,
Integrated
Product
Insights
for
Everyone
Works
with
What
You
Have
Today
Explore
Visualize
Dashboard
s
Share
Analyze
Hadoop
Clusters
NoSQL,
EMR,
S3
Buckets
Hadoop
Client
Libraries
for
Diverse
Data
Stores
42. Hunk
–
Unique
42
1. Run
NaQvely
in
Hadoop:
– Use
Hadoop
MapReduce
2. Mixed
Mode:
– Allows
for
data
Preview
3. Auto
deploy
SplunkD
to
DataNodes:
– On
the
fly
Indexing
4. Access
Control:
– Allows
for
many
users
/
many
Hadoop
directories
/
support
Kerberos
5. Schema
On
the
Fly
43. Mixed-‐mode
Search
43
Time
Hadoop
MR
/
Splunk
Index
Splunk
Stream
Switch
over
=me
preview
preview
• Data
Preview
• Allows
users
to
search
interac=vely
by
pausing
and
refining
queries
44. 44
Role-‐based
Security
for
Shared
Clusters
Pass-‐through
Authen=ca=on
• Provide
role-‐based
security
for
Hadoop
clusters
• Access
Hadoop
resources
under
security
and
compliance
• Integrates
with
Kerberos
for
Hadoop
security
Business
Analyst
MarkeQng
Analyst
Sys
Admin
Business
Analyst
Queue:
Biz
AnalyQcs
MarkeQng
Analyst
Queue:
MarkeQng
Sys
Admin2
Queue:
Prod
50. DAS
PRESENTS
CHALLENGES
SPLUNK DAS ENVIRONMENT
1
Dedicated Storage Infrastructure
• Silo that only runs Splunk
2
Compromised Availability
• SSDs & servers fail
• Index rebuilds can take hours to days
3
Lack of Enterprise Data Protection
• No Snapshots or Compliance
• DR limited to Multisite Clustering
4
Poor Storage Efficiency
• Multiple copies of data
• Multisite Clustering Increases Overhead
5
Non-Optimized Growth
• Fixed compute to storage ratio
• Servers must maintain storage symmetry
6
Management complexity
• Multiple management points
1x
2x
3x
2x
3x
1x
51. WHY
EMC
FOR
SPLUNK
OPTIMIZED
INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR
BIG
&
FAST
DATA
OpQmized
Shared
Storage
&
Tiering
Hot & Warm
Data Deployed
On XtremIO or
ScaleIO
Cold & Frozen
Data Deployed
On Isilon
Powerful
Data
Services
Encyption &
Security
Index File
Compression
Deduplication Of
Clustered Indexes
Snapshots For
Backups
Cost-‐EffecQve
&
Flexible
Scale-‐Out
Scale-Out Capacity &
Compute Independently Or
As Converged Platform
52. Why
Flash?!?
Economic
Influences
ü Consumer
Demand
ü Data
Services
Reducing
Impact
of
Applica=on
Data
Copies
ü Flash
technology
has
improved
at
a
faster
rate
than
Moore’s
Law
Intelligent
Scale-‐out
Flash
HDD
54.
Data
Services
For
Hot
&
Warm
Data
Self-Encrypting
Flash Drives
Index File
Compression
Dedupe Clustered
Index Copies
In-Memory Data
Copy Services
EMC
XTREMIO
&
SPLUNK
ALL-‐FLASH
INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR
HOT
&
WARM
DATA
Scale-Out Flash For
I/O-Bound Data
>1M IOPS & <1ms Latencies
High-Speed Search
Accelerate SuperSparse
& Rare Searches
Indexers
Search
Heads
55. EMC
SCALEIO
&
SPLUNK
CONVERGED
ARCHITECTURE
FOR
HOT
&
WARM
DATA
Indexers
Search
Heads
Servers
Network
Storage
Converged
Splunk
Architecture
Leveraging
Exis=ng
Hardware
Investments
5K
IOPS
1
TB
5K
IOPS
1
TB
5K
IOPS
1
TB
5K
IOPS
1
TB
5K
IOPS
1
TB
Shared
Capacity
&
Performance
Remove
Silos
&
Increase
ROI
On
DAS
Capacity
&
No
Single
Point
Of
Failure
25K
IOPS
&
5TB
56. OneFS
EMC
Isilon
–
Deep
and
WIDE
Storage
Single
Volume/
File
System
Policy
based
Tiering
Simplicity
&
Ease
of
Use
Linear
Scalability
MulQ-‐protocol
support
High
Performance
Unmatched
Efficiency
Easy
Growth
57. Consolidate,
Protect
&
Secure
Cold
Data
SmartLock Protects
Cold & Frozen Data
SmartDedupe For
Clustered Indexes
Snapshots IQ
For Backups
EMC
ISILON
&
SPLUNK
LOW-‐COST
&
SECURE
SCALE-‐OUT
FOR
COLD
DATA
High-Speed Ingest
& Long-Term Retention With
Native HDFS Integration
Indexers
Search
Heads
Scale-Out Capacity
Up To 50PB Of Highly
Available Capacity
Self-Encrypting
Drives