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Friday, March 22, 2024
Cybersecurity has become a paramount concern for organizations worldwide. As larger enterprises have fortified their defenses against cyber threats, small businesses have emerged as more vulnerable targets for cybercriminals. This shift is primarily due to the limited resources small businesses can allocate to cybersecurity measures compared to their larger counterparts. The implications of this trend… Read more »
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
If you’re ever tried to install the Zabbix agent on a Linux server and gotten an error like this, you’re in the right place to find help: $ apt install zabbix-agent Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested… Read more »
Monday, July 10, 2023
What is CPU Steal Time? In Linux, CPU steal time refers to the amount of time a virtual CPU waits for a real CPU while the hypervisor is servicing another virtual processor. This measurement is often seen in virtualized environments like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. In simpler terms, ‘steal time’ is time that a… Read more »
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
A-Team Systems proudly announces another addition to its maintenance and monitoring plans: continuously scanning all of our client’s public-facing infrastructure for open network ports as well as being listed on mail RBLs (real-time blackhole lists). Server Scanning One off port scanning when a system is put into place is normal practice for systems and network… Read more »
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Logentries is a SaaS service which lets you stream logs (and lots of other things) from multiple locations and servers for review and processing on their platform. They provide out-of-the-box installers and packages for a number of Linux and UNIX operating systems but don’t directly support FreeBSD (yet). However their agent consists of a few… Read more »
Thursday, November 5, 2015
A-Team has rolled out another improvement to our monitoring service: Certificate Transparency (CT) monitoring. In short we now use the CT system to continuously watch for certificate authorities issuing certificates against domains we monitor for our clients. When we see a certificate being issued we ensure that it was done so with proper authorization from… Read more »
Friday, August 7, 2015
Today A-Team Systems formally announces the latest edition to all maintenance and monitoring plans: Complete integration with New Relic application monitoring and metrics. We’re particularly excited about this as New Relic is the standard for application monitoring and is an excellent tool for driving optimization of code, database and systems infrastructure. Unified Monitoring Foremost A-Team… Read more »
Monday, May 25, 2015
A-Team Systems has just completed full integration of Qualys’ SSL Labs testing suite into our client server monitoring infrastructure. All of our maintenance and monitoring plans now include continuous best practice configuration, protocol, and certificate monitoring for all HTTPS sites — automatically! This ensures our client’s SSL configurations are always the most secure as industry… Read more »
Monday, September 8, 2014
Secure, smart and easy: How off-site backups should be! Off-site backups are a critical part of properly managing colocated or locally hosted servers. Any kind of backup makes good business sense for many reasons — for example, they keep you running after accidentally deleting a file or a server compromise. However, off-site backups are key… Read more »
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Do internal servers really need to be monitored, maintained and updated like a public facing Internet server? There are two aspects to this question, the first being maintenance and monitoring, and the second being internal server security (which is closely related to maintenance in that updates fix security issues). Internal Server Maintenance An internal (or… Read more »
