Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems: what are they and what's in it for you?

Insight and vigilance are essential on the modern digital highway. With the evolution and professionalization of cybercrime, the number of digital threats is growing, both in terms of volume and variety. At the same time, networks are becoming more complex. Application landscapes and the number of interdependencies between systems and network components are growing, while the rise of the cloud and the increasing popularity [...]

'Cybersecurity' is now an agenda item for every organization

The rise of the Internet and advanced digital technology has made our lives ever easier, but it has also exposed new vulnerabilities. Coveted (cyber) criminals are only too happy to exploit weaknesses in IT systems or a lack of security awareness. Consequently, the number of cyber attacks has been increasing explosively for years on end, often with dire consequences for the victims. [...]

Cloud migration: the main challenges

Even before the corona pandemic, the cloud was already gaining a solid foothold, but certainly after it, cloud migration accelerated dramatically for many organizations. A 2021 survey by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that at the time, more than half of organizations' strategy was already primarily focused [...]

Hybrid Cloud migration: features, benefits and challenges explained

The cloud is like a digital menu that offers different flavors. Consider the public cloud, in which you and other organizations use a shared infrastructure, and the private cloud. With the latter variant, you have all the resources, functionalities and resources you need within a private infrastructure, but your applications are [...]

Private Cloud in enterprise environments: pros and cons examined

By now, many organizations have realized that the cloud is in many ways "the way to go" if you want to have a future-proof IT landscape. For example, the cloud gives you a high degree of flexibility and scalability, making it easier to respond to changing markets and new technological innovations. At the same time, being in the cloud is a [...]

6 strategic methods for high CI/CD pipeline performance

Working with well-tuned CI/CD pipelines is essential for any modern development team. It allows you to integrate, test and deploy code to production environments faster. This not only ensures faster feedback and better software, but also reduces the time you spend on debugging and debugging. It is important to build a CI/CD pipeline that [...]

Identity providers for your cloud environment: which one do you choose?

Information security and privacy protection are issues facing every modern organization. Especially in the era of tighter legislation (AVG), lightning-fast digitization, cloud adoption and rapidly evolving cyber threats, organizations do need to have their cybersecurity in order to avoid fines, reputational damage and costly interruptions to critical business processes. At the same time, achieving, managing and keeping manageable [...]

The OTAP development street: four phases explained

The term OTAP can be seen and heard regularly in IT circles these days. For example, it is often found in guidelines or hosting contracts. The term refers to a method and philosophy for developing software and includes the first letters of the phases you go through when executing a software product: development, test, acceptance and [....]

Azure Backup: this is how to protect data in the Azure cloud

Making regular backups of important data is crucial to ensure the continuity of an organization and its services. After all, a major IT failure can have far-reaching consequences if a proper backup is not in place. In the past, it was sufficient to back up the most important data on tape once a day or week [....]

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA), Resource planning & Node Affinity

In a Kubernetes environment, it is essential to manage resources properly to ensure that your applications run efficiently and reliably. But how can you ensure that your workload always has enough resources, without paying unnecessarily for too many resources? Meet the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), [...]