Enjoy Being Audited
We used to take a defensive approach to being audited — viewing it as just a ‘box ticking’ exercise.
Embracing a standards-based approach to security management helps us to continuously improve.
Read More Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Update
In light of the recently discovered Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, Krescendo are applying security updates to workstations and servers.
Customers are advised to apply updates to their own workstations and devices.
Read MoreISO27001: still well worth it
After obtaining the initial certification last year, we published a post describing how we went about it and how we thought it had been a worthwhile effort.
Retaining ISO27001 meant not only maintaining the high standards against which you were certified in the first place, but also showing evidence of continuous improvement.
Read MoreProduction Infrastructure migration to Enterprise Class Tier 4 facility
On Saturday 25th October Krescendo successfully migrated their entire Production infrastructure from a Tier 2 data center to an Enterprise Class Tier 4 facility.
Read MoreKrescendo not impacted by the Shellshock bug
On September 24th 2014 the Shellshock bug was reported with severity 10/10 in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
This bug exposed vulnerabilities in the Linux bash library.
Read MoreKrescendo not impacted by the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug
On April 7th 2014 the Heartbleed bug was reported. This bug exposed vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library.
Krescendo can confirm that its client services were not affected.
Read MoreKrescendo Disaster Recovery Test
On Sunday February 23rd 2014 Krescendo executed their annual Disaster Recovery (DR) test.
The scope of this test was to simulate a complete outage of the primary data center.
Read MoreKrescendo: why NoSQL
In 2012, Krescendo introduced NoSQL technologies to its infrastructure.
MongoDB was the chosen distribution as it provided answers to the key requirements of scalability, resiliency, performance, and flexibility.
Read MoreSimple tips for the junior programmer for better code readability
The article here suggests a number of things you can do to improve your code readability. Points to higlight include: Keeping the number of lines per class to a reasonable length Using functions as abbreviations, not only for re-use Scope-based na…
Read MoreVisiting the NoSQL roadshow while SQL lives on
See this brief PowerPoint for a summary of some of my understandings from the NoSQL Roadshow I attended with Vincenzo yesterday. Some of the main points are picked up on Most NoSQL databases are relatively new in the collective consciousness They …
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