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What is Advance Threat Protection ?

Rishi Bajpai — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:51:57 +0000

We all must have familiar with the term threat protection , but what the Advanced threat protection stands for, is a bit tricky than ever.

Well, advanced threat protection is a category of security solutions that prevents any malwares, DdoS, or any other hacking-based attacks that sneaks into the sensitive information in your system and defend your machine against that.

Advanced threat protection is also known as ATP and it usually comes as a software package or managed services that you get in your server or with your hosting space.
However, it may be differ in approaches and components but most of them uses the same methodologies and includes same combinations of endpoints, email gateways, network devices, malware protection systems and a centralized console for ATP management.

How does ( ATP ) Advanced Threat Protection works ?

Now if you have enough insight about what it is, let’s see how it actually works.
Well, in advanced threat protection mainly three steps are included. To keep your device safe from any mishappenings in advance, as well as also when it’s been a victim of any such malware attack, or any kind of data breach on your system. It provides a three step procedure and that’s how it works.

Early Threat Detection is the step where ATP scans all the incoming ports for an email message or filters all incoming emails for any malicious links in it ( like phishing or malwares etc. ) and protects the system if any such issue is found.
In this way any critical data breach to the system or any other passive attack or any potential threat is detected in advance, before it can harm your device.

Adequate Threat Protection covers your device for any kind of threat if it couldn’t be caught by the early detection technique and it is later on detected on your machine. If any such threat is detected on your device, then it provides your device the ability to defend against that threat very smoothly.

Response is the ability of any Advanced Threat Protection System to mitigate the threats and respond to the security incidents within time.

An ATP services and solution system must follow some guidelines and offer the required components and functions for Comprehensive ATP to achieve these goals.

Who provides Advanced Threat Protection services ?

Enough talking about ATP's working and introduction? Now let’s have a look at the Advanced Threat Protection services and solution platforms which provides a clean and efficient way in our system to follow these guidelines and creates an environment for ATP to work. Like many other options,

Microsoft plays a bigger role here too. Let’s explore these methods and services a bit more.

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat protection is the lead role in ATP services. Microsoft firstly announced and launched the concept of ATP with its Office 365 package. It safeguards your organization against malicious threats posed by email messages, links (URLs) and collaboration tools.

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection suite offers you several benefits and features :
• Threat protection policies
• Reports
• Threat investigation and response capabilities
• Automated investigation and response capabilities
• ATP safe attachments
• ATP safe links
• ATP anti-phishing protection
• Threat trackers
• Attack Simulators
These are the number of features Office 365 provides you. To know about them in detail or purchase on you may visit the Microsoft’s official website.

Comodo's Advanced Threat Protection

Comodo's advanced threat protection provides you a cover over your mailing system and inbox. Its advanced threat protection is integrated on its Dome Suite to protect the users from all major forms of security threats. Also, this special feature allows users to access their files while analysing contents for possible malware detection, thus, resulting to industry growth and effective system security.

To know about what is the Comodo's perfect plan about Advanced threat protection, and anti-spam gateway. You should must visit their official website.

Why use Advanced Threat Protection ?

 ATP can prevent threats before they occur on your machine
 ATP can protect your system from malicious links sent via email
 ATP can help you understand different forms of attacks.

What is Bitcoin Halving?

Rishi Bajpai — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:30:39 +0000

Bitcoin halving or ‘halvening’ is a term related to mining new bitcoins. A bitcoin halving is an event where the reward for mining new blocks is halved, it means miners receive 50% fewer bitcoins for verifying transactions. It was scheduled by pseudonymous figure Satoshi Nakamoto itself, who first brought the concept of Bitcoin in the world.

Bitcoin halvings are scheduled to occur once every 210,000 blocks are added to the bitcoin blockchain – roughly every four years – until the maximum supply of 21 million bitcoins has been generated by the network.

What is the purpose of halving?

While the creator has not explicitly explained the reasons behind halvings, many have speculated that the system was designed to distribute coins more quickly at the beginning to incentivize people to join the network and mine new blocks. Block rewards were programmed to halve at regular intervals because the value of each coin rewarded was deemed likely to increase as the network expanded.

It is in fact done to support Bitcoin’s property of being a deflationary currency. Unlike other fiat currencies, bitcoin’s value or buying power increases over time. Bitcoin halvings are important events for traders because they reduce the number of new bitcoins being generated by the network. This limits the supply of new coins, so prices could rise if demand remains strong. While this has happened in the months before and after previous halvings – causing bitcoin’s price to appreciate rapidly – the circumstances surrounding each halving are different and demand for bitcoin can fluctuate wildly.

What are its effects?

Bitcoin halving takes place for several reasons:

To control the creation of new coins so that its value can be kept high. The bitcoin blockchain system is created in such a way that only 21 Million Bitcoins will be in existence when they all are mined which is expected to be till year 2140.

Its direct effect can be observed on miners, because right after halving takes place the block rewards gets halved (50%) than before which means miners gets half rewards. Because the halving drops the amount of BTC that is mined as Bitcoin approaches its fixed supply of 21 million, miners will earn less BTC after the halving for performing the same work.

If the Bitcoin price does not increase substantially after the halving, and if the difficulty of mining remains put, miners will see a higher break-even price with similar revenues as before.

Because the halving drops the amount of BTC that is mined as Bitcoin approaches its fixed supply of 21 million, miners will earn less BTC after the halving for performing the same work. If the Bitcoin price does not increase substantially after the halving, and if the difficulty of mining remains put, miners will see a higher break-even price with similar revenues as before.

For that reason, it would make sense for big mining centers to accumulate large amounts of capital before the halving to finance their operations in advance in case the price of Bitcoin does not increase right away after the halving.

Impact of Bitcoin Halving on its value and Miners

Impact of Bitcoin halving on its price or market value can’t be determined as it is not a proven strategy. However, it can be assumed on the basis of some perceptions, predictions, previous results and market behaviors. Since the bitcoin came in existence in 2009, there have two events of halving occurred in the past in the year 2012 and in 2016.

Both had some similar impacts on the price of a bitcoin right after the event but as expected the price of a bitcoin didn’t skyrocketed as much. But the prices got a rise within a year after halving in both past cases.

For a better explanation let’s take a look over the previous two halvings in detail, what was a bitcoin worth before and after halving took place.

The first halving occurred on 28 November 2012 when the bitcoin block reward dropped from 50 to 25 new bitcoins. Prices increased from $11 a month before the halving to $12 on the day of the event itself, continuing to rise over the course of the next year to reach $1038 on 28 November 2013.

The second halving took place on 9 July 2016. An event which saw the block reward fall from 25 new bitcoin per block to 12.5 bitcoin. Bitcoin’s price surged from $576 on 9 June 2016 (a month before the halving) to $650 at the time of the event itself. Despite significant volatility, prices continued to rise over the course of the next year to reach $2526 on 9 July 2017.

From above two observations it can be said that it had some effect on the price of the bitcoin, not suddenly but during the time thus making it more valuable for miners even if the block rewards gets halved. In this way the number of bitcoins can be regulated in the system and a smaller number of bitcoins must be mined by miners after each halving yet the demand will be the same and this will increase its price.

The bitcoin went through its third halving on 11 May 2020. The bitcoin price has remained flat since the supply squeeze—up a little over 1% and hovering around $8,800 per bitcoin and we can see now it is around $11,700 per bitcoin in two months of halving. So, it is very clear that it is going to increase more in the future as more and more people are going to use it and more nodes connecting into the Bitcoin Blockchain.

The next halving is expected to happen in 2024 but there are many other factors and assumptions impacting its price until it is officially accepted by institutions.

A theory has emerged that miners tend to sell before the halving to accumulate enough Bitcoin to finance their operations for many months after the halving occurs, allowing them to hold onto the majority of Bitcoin they mine.

Theoretically, such a practice would be beneficial for miners because the break-even price of Bitcoin mining spikes significantly when a block-reward halving occurs.

The bitcoin price before and after halving also depends on predictions, perceptions, market behaviour, buying habits, awareness about the event and its effects. Here I will elaborate this fact with the help of two scenarios.

In a scenario the bitcoin price can see a very high rise even before halving in a case that people think the BTC price will go high after halving thus start buying coins. This can all of a sudden create a huge demand and make its value sky high before happening the event.

In another scenario there maybe such a perception among people that halving is going to reduce all the values of bitcoins after it. In this case people will start selling their coins to prevent the risk of loosing their wealth. This will lead in rapid downfall in the value of bitcoin. In this scenario the demand of the bitcoin will face downfall and after the event the block reward will also be halved. It means there will be less bitcoins coming into the system as form of block rewards.

As a result, when the block rewards are less, their values get down as well as their demand will. In this scenario it will be not profitable for miners mine new blocks and this can gradually lead towards the downfall of the system. However, this can’t happen so easily as there are thousands of computers are connected to the system empowering the security, value and trust in this system and this can only happen if a huge proportion of that systems agree to take it down which will result losing their efforts and its result too.

These are some facts and assumptions related to Bitcoin halving and its impact on the miners, price of the currency and related terms. The actual results may differ based on some factors as mentioned.

Get cool swags and 70$ cloud credit / month by signing up for Civo Kubernetes program #Kube100

Rishi Bajpai — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:48:05 +0000

There are so many cloud services available on internet that provides Kubernetes since it has been launched as open-source. Some most popular of them are namely Google Kubernetes Engine, Microsoft's Azure Container Services and Amazon's Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). Undoubtedly they are the most popular and reliable solutions as being backed by tech giants and used by top orgs.

But there is a new Kubernetes Service launched which is providing free Cloud Credits every month without even asking for any credit card or payment method to its users as a part of its Beta program. Civo cloud is the world’s first k3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service into beta.

Join Civo #Kube100 Beta

What is the Civo beta Tester Program or #KUBE100?

It’s a program to test Civo’s Kubernetes service. As a beta tester, you will be reporting bugs and issues in Civo’s Kubernetes service. Now let’s start the process of become a beta tester and get some cool swags.

What it has in for you?

You will see many other programs on internet that provides you free cloud credits or some swags if you complete some course track or any challenge. But trust me, there is no such program which offers what I am going to tell you.

Civo Cloud is providing you awesome goodies under its #Kube100 Beta program.

If you qualify for its beta program you can get all these benefits listed below:

Free Cloud credit worth $70 per month until you are in the programme [ No credit card required ]
Exclusive invite to join community Slack channel where you will get expert tips and overwhelming support.
Awesome goodies like Kubernetes Stickers, and a Civo Sticker Pack once your acceptance to the program is confirmed.
Early access to new features.
Exclusive rewards for contribution

How to Sign Up for #KUBE100 Beta ?

To sign up for Civo's #Kube100 Beta and get selected as a beta tester go through this Link and follow the given instructions very carefully:

After clicking on the link you will be on Civo's Homepage. Now click on Apply to join today button and you will be redirected to a form. Make sure to fill all the details correct.

Fill your github and twitter username too as this will help them knowing you better ( Don't overthink if you haven't made any contributions related to cloud technologies, even I also hadn't any! 😉 )
Answer all four questions in detail. Make sure to write you answer at least above 50 words as these answers are gonna decide if you are in or not. ( Make sure you stand as a developer who wanna test and report bugs in their new Kubernetes Engine because your answers will be checked manually )

After you have submit your form check your email for account confirmation. Once your account is confirmed, you can totally relax now. Go get some beer, chill with friends or grab some doritos 😋 Yeah!! love em too.

If you have given appropriate answers of all those questions, most probably you will hear by them within 24 hours. Once you have received your acceptance email, login to dashboard and Congratulations🎉🎉 now you can create a cluster and launch your web app or any blog using Wordpress, MariaDB and Helm.

You will see packages like this to create a cluster. You can customize number of nodes and packages from the available options and ensure that it remains under budget (your free $70 credit) else you have to pay if your usage quota goes over budget.

There are number of packages available you can use to launch you web application, any container or microservices. You can choose according to your cluster and needs what service do you require.

Ahhh I forgot something very important! Have you created your cluster successfully ? It's time to claim your goodies 🤑

Head over towards your Account Settings and you will see a message on right side asking you to fill your address to claim your goodies. Update your address and you're all set.

Keep your eyes on your mailbox. They will notify you once they sent you goodies.

P.S. I am still waiting for mine after confirmation, try your luck. Maybe, you can get yours before me.

Thank me later!😜

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