Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Organizations must enact effective third-party risk management (TPRM) programs to ensure their vendors fulfill cybersecurity requirements. Otherwise, they risk carrying the financial and reputational harm caused by customer data breaches. The PCI DSS standard covers aspects of third-party risk management as it's applicable to all organizations that process credit card data, especially the heavily regulated finance industry.

Security information and event management refer to Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM) through a single pane of glass. SIEM solutions are used by security analysts to monitor any potential threats within the infrastructure of their organisation.

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Today’s threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Attackers are constantly adjusting their tactics and finding new ways to infiltrate organizations with increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal valuable data. As such, businesses and IT professionals must remain up to date on the industry’s latest threat intelligence in order to better understand the current state of this cybersecurity landscape and know their enemies to shore up defenses.

Part 1 of this series covered the challenges Rubrik initially faced with its distributed database. Our applications had become quite complex to work around some of these challenges. Part 2 of this series covered how we chose a new distributed database (CockroachDB), and how we performed the migration. Next, we will dive into some of the challenges we faced after migrating to CockroachDB and how we developed on top of CockroachDB to mitigate them.