Blog

  • Hear It From 3 Security Leaders: How Security Can Accelerate Business

    Which is more important: security or speed? This question has long been a source of concern for businesses worldwide, and it can leave many organizations vulnerable to hacks in the name of doing things fast and improving employee work experience.  Starting today, to foster corporate security and growth, you do not need to compromise your […]

    Dror Arie, Head of Engineering @ GlobalDots
    18th October, 2021
  • Akamai EAA – Setup LDAP Directory

    If you use Okta without any additional Active or LDAP Directory and want to use the existing user and groups from Okta in Akamai’s EAA, this article becomes handy to you. Especially if you use Okta as an Identity Provider (IDP) for your EAA applications. Instructions We have to parts here: Part One: Okta Configuration […]

    Jonas Schultz, Solutions Engineer @ GlobalDots
    14th October, 2021
  • Downtime is Pricy, Solution isn’t: How to Stay Out of DNS Outages

    The recent global DNS outages, with the latest addition of Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp, are a call to transform your approach to DNS solutions. In this webinar, we explore whether cloud-borne environments are really fail-proof and how businesses can use the most advanced cybersecurity methods and DNS solutions to minimize their risk of server failures, code misconfigurations, DDoS […]

    Francesco Altomare, Southern Europe Regional Manager @ GlobalDots
    13th October, 2021
  • Facebook Will Happen Again: DNS Outages and Interconnected Systems

    Last week’s massive outage on the Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp ecosystem left many of us puzzled and concerned: How did our entire social communication (and news source for many) become so dependent in a single, non-regulated conglomerate? How come this conglomerate can fail over a seemingly-trivial reason such as DNS? And what are the dangers of our over-reliance […]

    Francesco Altomare, Southern Europe Regional Manager @ GlobalDots
    11th October, 2021
  • Defending eCommerce from Bots… Without Dissing Your Customers

    The real big winners of eCommerce surge 2020 saw the largest year-over-year growth in eCommerce sales. Throughout this growth, fraudsters continued to develop sophisticated attacks to fill their pockets. One of the most devastating attack types is automated fraud: bots that mimic the actions of a real customer so they can bypass fraud prevention tools. […]

    Dr. Eduardo Rocha, Senior Solutions Engineer & Security Analyst @ GlobalDots
    22nd September, 2021
  • Redefining Cloud Security to Accelerate Business

    Which is more important to your business, security or speed? This has long troubled business owners worldwide and can leave many companies vulnerable to cyberattacks in a bid to optimize user experience. But you don’t need to compromise your level of enterprise security to nurture business growth. Until today, IT security often created roadblocks for […]

    Dror Arie, Head of Engineering @ GlobalDots
    22nd September, 2021
  • The good, the good-old and the biometric: 5 Passwordless options compared

    Passwords are obsolete. Memorizing long and complicated passwords has been holding back businesses for over 50 years, while cyberattacks are evolving every day. ¹ In fact, Google has registered over 2 million phishing sites as of January 2021. The figure is up from 1.7 million in January 2020, a 27% increase year on year. ² […]

    Dror Arie, Head of Engineering @ GlobalDots
    25th August, 2021
  • Terraform Naming Conventions & Best Practices: A hell-of-a-practical guide

    Modules naming conventions  Based on Hashicorp documentations we should follow general naming conventions for  Terraform modules.  Based on information above all Terraform modules should follow next ruleset • All source code in git All modules follow naming convention terraform-<PROVIDER>-<NAME>. For  example terraform-aws-ec2, terraform-azure-vms, terraform-infoblox-dns etc • All terraform modules should have Unit/Integration tests. For example […]

    Francesco Altomare, Southern Europe Regional Manager @ GlobalDots
    19th August, 2021
  • RCE in Cdnjs and What It Means to You

    Last week, a researcher named RyotaK shared a clever supply chain vulnerability in Cloudflare’s highly popular hosted module called cdnjs, which runs on around 12% of all sites on the web. The module helps developers consume other popular packages and integrate them safely into their sites.  The vulnerability was in the cdnjs library update server […]

    Francesco Altomare, Southern Europe Regional Manager @ GlobalDots
    19th July, 2021
  • 5+4 = The New Cloud Security Stack

    Infrastructures, threat, and security are all under a quick, constant evolution. Once every few year there comes a tipping point which forces us to rethink our technology posture. 2020 was that tipping point. The cloud surge has peaked during the Pandemic, as remote work became the new normal for most office-based businesses. This has introduced […]

    Eli Arkush
    9th June, 2021
  • Old Approaches to Monitor a New World: Monitoring in the Hybrid Cloud

    In this article I hope to give the reader a small history lesson as well as some advice on how to build a useful monitoring system for your platform. First, it’s key to understand where we came from. Before cloud computing systems, every company owned its own infrastructure and therefore had a need to monitor […]

    Manuel Reischl, Head of Customer IT Support @ GlobalDots
    9th June, 2021

Unlock Your Cloud Potential

Schedule a call with our experts. Discover new technology and get recommendations to improve your performance.

Unlock Your Cloud Potential