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Online and homeschooling students need support to reach their full potential. While our apps offer many different built-in support tools, having access to additional help on your computer or smartphone is a great way to help you feel more confident and independent. With that in mind, our staff has compiled a list of the best Google Chrome extensions and...

Now more than ever, individuals, organizations, and legislators want to ensure that new technologies are created, used, and protected in ways that can be trusted. In this article, we tell you what technology and security trends that will be relevant in 2022. 1. Hybrid solutions The horizontal world in security and technology has received a lot of attention in 2021. In...

This tutorial will show you how you can easily configure Logstash Elasticsearch Basic authentication. If you have secured your Elasticsearch cluster with authentication/authorization, then for Logstash to be able to publish the events to the Elasticsearch cluster, it must provided valid user credentials that is authorized to publish events to specific indices. In our previous guides, we learnt how to...

This tutorial will take you through how you can configure filebeat-elasticsearch authentication. You realize that when you enable Elastic basic authentication, you need to valid user credentials to authenticate and validate access to restricted Elastic resources. Our previous guide showed how to enable Elastic stack basic authenticaion. How to Enable Basic Authentication on ELK Stack Configure Filebeat-Elasticsearch Authentication Create Required Publishing Roles In order...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable basic authentication on ELK stack. Elastic/ELK stack supports user authentication. This enables it to restrict access to various resources within the cluster. To access these resources when authentication is enabled, a user has to prove their identity using username/passwords or other forms of identity depending on the authentication realm enabled. How...

Energy can be a huge expense for organizations. Seeing how your business utilizes energy will empower you to bring down energy utilization, and make energy proficient practices a centerpiece of your business. In this article, we'll investigate a scope of business energy-saving tips that will assist you with reducing expenses, saving business electricity, and lowering your business' effect on the...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 7.1/7.2/7.3/7.4 on Ubuntu 22.04. PHP is a fast, flexible, pragmatic, popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Install PHP 7.1/7.2/7.3/7.4 on Ubuntu 22.04 The default Ubuntu 22.04 repositories provide PHP 8.x; apt-cache policy php php: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2:8.0+82~0build1 Version table: 2:8.0+82~0build1 500 ...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 22.04. PHP 8 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency. Install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 22.04 The default...

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can analyze network traffic using Brim security tool. Brim is an open source desktop application that can be used to analyze structured network traffic data like; packet captures, e.g created by Wiresharkstructured logs, especially from the Zeek network analysis framework. According to their page, Brim is built from open source components, including: Zed, a structured log query...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to analyze network traffic using Zeek. Zeek is a world's leading passive network security monitoring tool that sits on the network and read all the traffic passing through the network, parses them into a high-level events that can then be passed through Zeek policy script intepreter which then generates comprehensive record/logs of...