Listen Top Shows Blog

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

Update: 2022-02-09

Share

Description

The recent log4j fiasco reminded us that not only is it important to stay updated and current with security news, but it's also critical to have safe ways to deploy configuration updates or orchestrate reporting/remediation scripts across your infrastructure as quickly as possible. Jeremy and Nick join us today to share best practices and automation suggestions.

Learn more:

Join our community at https://slack.puppet.com
Contribute to the module at https://github.com/puppetlabs/log4jscanner
Download the module from its Forge page: http://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/log4jscanner
Read about Puppet's security response policies https://puppet.com/security/
Reach Jeremy Mill on Twitter at @living_syn

Update: the GI Joe quote our hapless host massacred was – "Now you know; and knowing is half the battle."

Comments

In Channel

Open Source: “More than a License” but Not Quite a Business Model with Dotan Horovits

Open Source: “More than a License” but Not Quite a Business Model with Dotan Horovits

2024-07-2635:12

When Will IT Security Escape the Cat-and-Mouse Game? with Sean Atkinson, CISO of CIS

2024-05-1634:01

The Future of the Forge: Unpacking the Big (and Small) Changes

2024-05-0741:15

We Surveyed ~500 People Doing Platform Engineering. Here’s What We Learned.

2024-04-0340:14

Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.

2023-11-2128:02

The Politics of Your Job: Building Trust + Subverting DevOps Hierarchies (Respectfully) with Joshua Zimmerman

2023-10-1733:04

Who the Vox Pupuli Are and How They Work with Puppet

2023-09-2735:38

What CentOS, RHEL, and HashiCorp’s BSL Mean for the Future of Open Source

2023-09-0543:46

The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)

2023-08-0336:20

“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.

2023-07-2827:35

It's Always Audit Time: Compliance is Coming for Your Department (Yes, Yours)

2023-07-1729:18

What It’s Actually Like to Build a Puppet Module

2023-06-0621:52

“How Long is a Piece of String?”: All the Ways New Puppet Training Simplifies Complexity

“How Long is a Piece of String?”: All the Ways New Puppet Training Simplifies Complexity

2023-04-1942:11

Diving Into the 2023 State of Open Source Report with Javier Perez

Diving Into the 2023 State of Open Source Report with Javier Perez

2023-04-0443:11

The Future of Platform Engineering

The Future of Platform Engineering

2023-01-1837:02

Creating Community with an Employee Resource Group (ERG)

Creating Community with an Employee Resource Group (ERG)

2022-06-2940:33

Managing your configuration management system shouldn't be hard

Managing your configuration management system shouldn't be hard

2022-05-2535:52

CentOS 8 is EOL, so now what?

CentOS 8 is EOL, so now what?

2022-04-2731:09

Automating your way to compliance across your entire cloud infrastructure

Automating your way to compliance across your entire cloud infrastructure

2022-03-0939:03

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

2022-02-0947:59

00:00

00:00

x

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

Practice and prepare for your next security threat

Ben Ford, Nick Burgan, Jeremy Mill