Buzzword Talk: ‘Blockchain’

As the name indicates, ‘Blockchain’ is a chain of blocks, which forms a digital distributed public ledger and records cryptocurrency transactions.  Although blockchain was introduced as a method to timestamp digital documents by a group of researchers in 1991, it...

Buzzword Talk: ‘Meltdown – Spectre’

  “Meltdown & Spectre again !!” – This is the most popular happening in cybersecurity now.  It’s a known fact that Meltdown & Spectre exploit critical hardware vulnerabilities in modern processors. Let’s have a look at Meltdown-Spectre in detail. In the...

Hadoop – Big Data Analytics : an overview

  To understand about Hadoop, we need to have an idea about Big Data and Big Data Analytics. Row data has no value.  It only becomes valuable on getting processed to produce results, where these results can give insights in taking the right decisions for...

Buzzword Talk – ‘GDPR’

  Let’s talk about the most popular term now, GDPR. General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR is the regulation of European Union Law (EU Law) on data protection and privacy as well as on issues related to the export of personal data, for all individuals in EU...

Server Hardening – Linux

  In today’s IT era, faster technological advancements have given ways to increased security threats.  Security holds a major role in making the information systems efficient, which in turn determines today’s business success. So today, ensuring and maintaining...

Linux Server Auditing

  A server is a computer hardware or program which provides services to another computer hardware or program, known as the client (and in turn, to its users). Mostly server and client will reside in separate computing systems or hardware (in which case it can be...