If you force people to jump through hoops to handle alerts, they’ll soon stop doing it 🤯 Canary optimizes for fewer alerts but we also ensure that you can handle alerts easily without us. So it takes just 4 minutes to setup a Canary but far less to pull our alerts into Slack. By default, your console will send you alerts via email or SMS, but there are a few other tricks up its sleeve. It is trivial to also …
Month: September 2019
…what if someone finds out? Do attackers care if there are canaries in my network? People wonder if they need to hide the defensive tech used on their networks. Like all interesting dilemmas, the answer is nuanced. In defense of obscurity In any discussion about obscurity you will almost certainly have someone shout about “security through obscurity” being bad. As a security strategy, obscurity is a terrible plan. As an opportunity to slow down or confuse attackers, it’s an easy …
We’ve got hundreds of servers and thousands of Canaries deployed in the world. Keeping them healthy is a large part of what we do, and why customers sign up for Canary. Monitoring plays a big role in supporting our flocks and keeping the infrastructure humming along. A pretty common sight in operations are dashboards covered with graphs, charts, widgets, and gizmos, all designed to give you insight into the status of your systems. We are generally against doing things “just …