Tag: compliance

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Want to make your security and compliance team happy? Now you can, with Puppet’s new extended product lifecycle. Earlier this year our VP of customer success, Sandra Hamilton, emailed details about release cycle changes for Puppet Enterprise customers. We updated our product release cycle to twice-annual releases effective May 2017, and on our website defined support categories of Mainstream, Limited and End of Life based on where the product resides in the lifecycle. Effective 11 October, we added a new Extended support level, which includes fixes for critical bugs and security updates for ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery. Check out Puppet Remediate.Last May, we released the open source project, Lumogon™, that inspects running containers, and a preview of Puppet Cloud Discovery, a tool to discover cloud infrastructure. We talked to numerous users about their challenges and learned a lot in the process. They consistently told us that they are being asked to manage a large number of heterogeneous resources such as physical servers, VMs, containers, and network devices from a widening array of endpoints and interfaces. And, they wanted a ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The hybrid cloud is not just a consideration, but for our customers, especially our larger customers, already a reality. To understand what we mean when we say hybrid cloud, we first need to define two terms: Hybrid Cloud: Uses mix of on-premises and one or more clouds. Multi-cloud: Uses two or more clouds. Typically, companies are using both hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. When we talk to our customers about hybrid cloud and or multi-clouds, we often hear the following: We want to use the best-of-breed cloud for a workload. We want to be cloud agnostic. One cloud provider does ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of my favorite parts of PuppetConf is hearing what people are doing with Puppet technology. It’s always a learning experience. You’ll be learning in the hallway, at the events, and of course during the sessions. I love hearing about people pushing Puppet technology in ways I hadn’t considered, or combining it with other tools to make solutions to a larger set of problems. This year, we have several talks lined up to expand your knowledge of Puppet and take you deeper into the capabilities and extension points of our tech. Allow me ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Imagine this scenario: You enter your dentist’s office as a follow-up visit to the 6-month checkup you had last week. You’re nervous because the checkup revealed bleeding in your gums and cracks in your fillings, all things that require your dentist’s repair on this occasion. So, you’re there nervously fidgeting in the lobby waiting for your name to be called, envisioning all sorts of dentistry implements of torture that will soon be inside your mouth. Finally, when your name is called, you’re shown to the room of horrors and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; PuppetConf 2017 is fast approaching, and we have some exciting updates to share. Block out your calendar for 10–12 October in San Francisco, and register by 10 August to receive the 20 percent discount for early birds. IT Leader trackPuppetConf offers awesome keynotes, sessions (and so much more!) for practitioners — but don’t forget to invite the IT leaders in your organization. For the third consecutive year, PuppetConf will feature an IT Leader track focused on emerging trends in IT, plus real-world stories of digital transformation, the future of DevOps, security and compliance, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of Puppet’s core features is its ability to maintain your infrastructure in exactly the state you define for it. Describe the configurations you want in a Puppet manifest just one time, and Puppet will apply and maintain those settings for as long as you wish.This ability to automate configuration management offers you significant advantages when it comes to security, because automated configuration management lets you broadly enforce system rules, plus get an automatically generated audit trail so you can report on compliance. This only works, however, for resources you manage with Puppet ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; According to the U.S. Department of Justice, ransomware is the fastest growing malware threat, with an average of more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring daily since 1 January 2016. This represents a 300 percent increase over the approximately 1,000 attacks seen daily in 2015.As we saw earlier this year, WannaCry ransomware was unleashed on a Friday, and spread rapidly to machines across the globe. Four days later, WannaCry had crippled an estimated 300,000 computers in more than 150 countries. While the reported ransom per incident was relatively low (U.S. $300-$600), Reuters reported that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of the best ways to ensure good, solid security on systems across your organization is to establish baselines defining a minimum set of standards for access, firewalls and services. Puppet can help you define, build, and maintain those configuration management baselines in a straightforward way that’s just not possible when working at scale.In this blog post, I cover a few basic steps you can take with Puppet to improve your security by building in some basic assertions about the state of your servers. We'll start with defining manifests that limit access to ... Read More