Runecast Virtualization Technology Webinars

Explore automated DISA STIG compliance for VMware, Windows, and Linux with Runecast. Join us for expert insights and Q&A!

Explore the latest and most advanced features introduced by Runecast in the second half of 2023, designed to streamline your 2024 compliance efforts and enhance IT operations.

Join the Cyber Rescue Alliance and Runecast as we discuss automating compliance, managing vulnerabilities and minimizing risk in the Banking and Financial Service Industry.

Designed exclusively for VMware admins, this series will equip you with the expertise to navigate the vast VMware landscape.

Join us & our German partner Idicos to learn more about compliance for VMware vSphere: BSI IT-Grundschutz, KRITIS & DORA'. You’ll get a comprehensive dive into ensuring seamless adherence to BSI IT-Grundschutz standards. Explore solutions for compliance challenges related to KRITIS, along with automated approaches tailored for VMware vSphere. Gain insights into applying DORA principles to vSphere environments and streamlining compliance checks. This session will be in German language.

We're excited to share that the latest Runecast 6.6 release introduces two major milestones – Runecast SaaS & Agentless Vulnerability Scanning for AWS workloads. Let's dive into this release with our experts Markus Strauss and Steve Salisbury to unveil the benefits and saving this can bring to you and your organization. Join us to discover the highlights of this new platform release.

Getting all stakeholders to the table is challenging, getting all stakeholders to agree can be even more so. Historically, security and compliance related topics have been seen as challenges that can slow down or even prevent the successful migration of workloads to the cloud. In this session, we will discuss how to leverage these aspects to build consensus among stakeholders with strong, well-understood and accepted migration plans.

This webinar is a 30-minute introductory session that explores the concept of the attack surface, the impact it has on organizations, and the importance of reducing it. Our experts will cover various aspects of attack surface, such as primary and secondary attack surface, analysis of an attack and an architecture, and the difference between traditional security solutions versus attack surface reduction. The webinar is relevant for all organizations that seek to minimize the risks associated with a larger attack surface, which is crucial in today’s business environment.

Join our upcoming webinar "Kubernetes is secure by default. Except, it isn’t." and learn how to identify common security issues with the default Kubernetes cluster and workload settings. This webinar is a must-attend for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in Kubernetes security to protect their clusters against attacks.

In this insightful Runecast live demo our expert Simon Ahmet will showcase how Runecast can help you identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities within minutes, ensuring the safety of your infrastructure. The live demo will demonstrate how the Runecast platform provides real-time risk assessment, and offers actionable insights to mitigate potential threats. Our speaker will also emphasize the importance of taking preventive measures to secure your environment and minimize risks. Don't miss out on this informative session that will equip you with the knowledge and tools to detect and prevent vulnerabilities in your infrastructure.

Join us for a discussion tackling the main pain points that financial organizations, like banks, face in IT operations management. We'll examine the challenges of cybersecurity threats and the need to constantly upgrade security measures to prevent downtime that can lead to loss of revenue and reputation damage. We'll take a look at how security compliance automation simplifies ways to comply with multiple regulations and standards, reduces the lack of visibility, and increases control over compliance activities. It enables IT teams to manage IT operations in a cost-efficient manner, while still maintaining security and regulatory compliance.

As the world is rapidly moving towards cloud-based infrastructure, it has become imperative to secure cloud native applications. We will guide you through the process of evaluating and choosing the best-fit Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for your organization. By the end of this session, you will have a comprehensive understanding of CNAPPs and the key takeaways that will help you make a well-informed buying decision.

Explore the cutting-edge capabilities of the Runecast platform that are a must-have for every organization with a proactive security strategy in 2023. Runecast platform is adding new advanced features with the speed of light – let’s catch up with the CTO Aylin Sali and Head of Product Markus Strauss to see how to get the most out of the latest ones. Join us live on December 15th to learn top 5 advanced features that can help you gear up for 2023 and + the most loved one chosen by customers over time. And that’s not all! Christmas came early this year: Sign Up for this Session and Get Runecast Datasheet Gift for Free.

In this discussion, we will talk about compliance standards, tools, and potential processes that, when implemented, can help any CISO, CIO, or Security team be more prepared and proactive before the next audit. Prianto will introduce Runecast, an AI-driven platform for Dev and SecOps teams that simplifies & automates the overall process of continuous compliance while also dramatically decreasing the preparation time for audits.

With the official end of life for vSphere 6.7 in October 2022 and release of vSphere 8 this September, you might be thinking of upgrades to your vSphere environments. Join this exclusive webinar with Steve Bettison who will walk you through the planning and successful execution of VMware vSphere. Learn how to effectively follow your security and compliance strategy during the complex vSphere upgrade process. Avoiding any upgrade issues and incompatibilities that could negatively impact your security posture. See how Runecast platform can facilitate the process for you.

Configuration drift increases the organization’s risk in a vast number of areas. From network or data breaches, downtime, and compliance issues to poor performance of systems and applications. Therefore implementing proactive configuration management is important to ensure that systems perform consistently and securely over time. Continuous monitoring, regular audits, automation of benchmarks, and baseline checks are some of the key recommendations to apply. With Steve Salisbury, we will look at ways to avoid configuration drift, tips for proactive configuration management, and how the Runecast AI-driven platform can help you to achieve that.

What is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform? Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) integrate and centralize otherwise disparate security functions into a single source of truth. Many organizations are dealing with issues as one-off problems, rather than addressing cloud security holistically. That approach usually comes from the adoption of individual solutions or tools for each issue, with no centralized view of their infrastructure security. The CNAPPs approach provides visibility across silos and ensures security for the cloud infrastructure, thanks to which DevOps and SecOps teams can deliver full-stack security.

Staying on top of the latest security standards and best practices in the rapidly evolving IT infrastructure is hard and time-consuming for busy IT teams like yours. SysAdmins in organizations with large-scale and multiple vendors environment can now monitor compliance across different geographical locations, organizations, and security compliance frameworks at the same time. In this webinar, you’ll see how to proactively detect and mitigate compliance issues and security risks across multiple sites with an AI-driven platform for real-time, actionable insights.

Learn how to continuously scan configurations and logs of your assets for known issues, vulnerabilities and best practices down from the cluster to the nodes. Enable proactive Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) for your organization. In this webinar, you'll see how to simplify and automate vulnerability management for Kubernetes and also, how to apply the shift-left approach to your container image build pipeline with Runecast.

Join us for an exclusive customer interview with Basim Al Lawati, ICT Technical Senior Manager at Oman Airports. Find out how they achieve security compliance and hardware compatibility in a large VMware environment with a single Runecast platform.‍ Learn how to enable your IT Security and Operations teams with a single platform for discovering and resolving IT problems you don't yet know about. This transparency brings security and stability to your IT environment, increases the uptime of your infrastructure, and of course, reduces your overall costs.

SysAdmins in organizations with large-scale VMware deployments can now eliminate the need for and time wasted on troubleshooting, researching and identifying a problem across multiple sides. In this webinar, you’ll see how to proactively detect and mitigate configuration issues and security risks with an AI-driven platform for real-time, actionable insights.

In this webinar, you'll see Runecast’s latest addition supporting the Google Cloud Platform. With AWS and Microsoft Azure already supported, Runecast now protects all three of the top cloud providers. We’ll also take a closer look at the new Kubernetes intelligence in Runecast that brings image scanning and container-scanning capabilities to DevOps and SecOps teams.

As the complexity of software and therefore their vulnerabilities increase, so does the need for better vulnerability management. We talk about an importance of regular automated scanning, recommendations, remediation, the ability to set up vulnerability management policies and how Runecast enables you to achieve that.

We talk about compliance standards, tools and potential processes that, when implemented, can help any CISO, CIO or Security team be more prepared and proactive before the next audit. Markus and Simon also cover the importance of continuous compliance and how it can dramatically decrease the preparation time for audits.

How to increase transparency and unified visibility across all platforms in a wider company technology stack? That’s an ultimate pain point faced by today’s CISOs, CIOs, Security and IT Operations teams. In this series we’ll talk about configuration and vulnerability management, continuous security compliance and upgrade planning for hybrid cloud environments – in a way that can be done smartly with a single-platform visibility. We will also cover the importance of a proactive approach in risk mitigation to free up IT teams’ time to work on proactive business growth drivers.

New proactive analysis of Windows and Linux operating systems adds one more layer to Runecast’s proactive monitoring, management, and compliance. We'll also show you Runecast's coverage of Apache Log4j Java vulnerability. Over the weekend a critical vulnerability Log4Shell in the Apache Log4j Java library (used by thousands of enterprise apps) was disclosed.

What's new in Runecast Analyzer in 2021 (with focus on the latest release). How new Remediation feature takes proactive issues management up a level. How to avoid configuration drift once and for all. And much more!

Gareth Edwards will show you how progressive organizations that want to move to cloud services without placing all their eggs into one basket can leverage a multi & hybrid cloud environment. Here’s what you’ll learn: ✔ Five reasons why multi-cloud Infrastructure is the future of enterprise IT. ✔ Multi-Cloud Cost and Performance Optimization Strategy. ✔ Three critical multi-cloud security strategy requirements. ✔ Automated checks for multi-cloud optimization and security compliance.

With the official vSphere 7 U2 announcement in March 2021, you might be thinking of upgrades to your vSphere environments. Join this webinar with vSphere expert Kev Johnson where he will walk you through the planning and successful execution of vSphere in your SDDCs, and see how Runecast Analyzer can facilitate the process for you.

Take a deeper dive into our Microsoft Azure capabilities in the latest Runecast Analyzer 5.0 release with Kev Johnson and Stan Markov. Explore the full set of mandatory CIS compliance rules and best practices audits with an out-of-the-box solution for Microsoft Azure.

As a sysadmin, there's a constant struggle to learn the new tech quickly enough so that you can put them in production when your org wants. How do you keep on top of this stuff?

Describing 2020 we could say “the only constant is change”. But how to deal with uncertainty in 2021? Is “business continuity” just another new buzz phrase, or we can act actively to ensure that for businesses?

Be a laserbeam: Carve out focus time. Make your work space the only slave to the grind. Deal with distractions head on. Kev Johnson shares some of the tips he’s picked up over the years as a home-based worker.

How was it to manage agile development during the covid pandemic? What was the Runecast team able to develop during the last 365 days and how? What were the obstacles or unexpected gains on that way? And what we're planning for 2021? Join us for the live Q&A and get inspired.

Webinar with Runecast's German partner idicos. See vSphere automated checks for BSI, KRITIS, or SAP HANA Best practices.

Live Q&A hosted by Kev Johnson (Systems Engineer at Runecast). He’ll interview our R&D engineer Tomáš Odehnal, who works on implementing Kubernetes security & best practices checks into Runecast Analyzer. They’ll walk you through how Runecast Analyzer works with Kubernetes and also what’s on our roadmap for the coming months.

What are the CIS Benchmarks? Why and How to implement CIS principles? Where is potential overlap of the CIS Benchmarks with other security standards? Why compliance and security are not necessarily the same thing. Outstanding use cases of the CIS security standards implementation.

You can now subscribe to Runecast Analyzer through the VMware Cloud Marketplace and from there deploy to VMware Cloud on AWS, vCloud Director, and even on-premises through a Content Library!

How does Runecast Analyzer work in your environment on a daily basis? What are the challenges that it can solve for you immediately? How easy is it to deploy? And anything else you ask! In open Q&A we were asking guests questions to gain insights into Runecast Analyzer daily usage in VMware &/or AWS environments. Guest company: ONI - Data Centre Services provider with 8 years of 100% uptime

Kev Johnson (System engineer at Runecast) is showing the latest version of Runecast Analyzer with an Enterprise Console that gives System Admins a consolidated view of their virtual environments. The console is designed for enterprises needing to coordinate operations, role-based access control, and teamwork spread out over varied locations with limited connectivity.

With the official vSphere 7 announcement on March 10, you might be thinking of upgrades to your vSphere environments. Watch this webinar with vSphere expert Kev Johnson where he will walk you through the planning and successful execution of vSphere in your SDDCs, and see how Runecast Analyzer can facilitate the process for you.

In this webinar, you learn from Technical Engineer and virtualization industry veteran Wade Carlsen: How to automate VMware security compliance for industry standards such as CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, DISA STIG, GDPR or BSI IT-Grundschutz. Where they overlap with other existing industry security standards. What other security standards for data centers Runecast has on the roadmap.

To help teams with a simpler transition to hybrid cloud services, Runecast has wrapped the complexity of the AWS environment into its VMware-proven analysis methodology. Runecast CEO Stanimir Markov (VCDX #74) & CTO Aylin Sali are showing how to seamlessly integrate Runecast Analyzer within your familiar VMware management tools to identify when combinations of components in your data center stack are vulnerable.

Stanimir Markov (CEO of Runecast and VCDX #74) speaking live with ActualTech Media at AWS re:Invent conference about the latest feature within Runecast Analyzer.

The BSI, as the German cybersecurity authority, shapes IT security in digitization through prevention, detection, and reaction for government, business and society. The latest update of Runecast Analyzer (3.1) provides automated scans to remove manual work and ensure continuous audits against the BSI IT-Grundschutz.

What are the current IT trends in the financial sector? How does PCI-DSS compliance affect IT teams? What are the best practices to consider when approaching PCI-DSS compliance? In our PCI-DSS webinar we tackle these questions and showcase the most advanced and comprehensive PCI-DSS analysis solution available for VMware on the market, as used by some of VMware’s largest customers.

Many issues in vSphere are caused by incompatible combinations of server components, ESXi versions, I/O devices and drivers. Without automation, it is difficult to discover any potential incompatibilities. Runecast Analyzer solves this problem by automating the VMware HCL.

Automated hardening is demonstrated for the VMware standards, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA. Using the Runecast vRO plugin, he’ll show how you can enforce host, VM and dvPortgroup security settings to reduce time exposed to vulnerabilities radically and the major effort spent understanding, detecting, and remediating non-compliances.

Webinar about VMware Horizon issue prevention and remediation with CEO Stanimir Markov (VCDX #74) and Ivaylo Ivanov (VCIX and Lead Runecast developer).

How to find most VMware hosts with problems and fix them.

Runecast provides plugin for VMware vRO and automates configuration issues fixes.

Purple screen of death, a.k.a PSOD, is a nightmare for all VMware admins. If it happens on an ESXi host, multiple services and systems would be affected. Runecast data center expert Aylin Sali, VCAP-DCD, got to experience this problem on multiple production environments and now wants to share a few tips on how to mitigate PSOD incidents.

See how German Aerospace uses Runecast Analyzer in one of their space missions where the aim is to grow food in space! Recorded at German VMUG Usercon 2017.

Mr. Szczuka has spoken at the Frankfurt VMware User Conference about his Runecast Analyzer experience, you can watch the recording here.