Reliable weekly pdf and hello Sydney!

Besides basic maintenance and bug fixes, not much happened during the summer. But now holidays are over and development has fully started again.

Today’s weekly report will be send with Sendgrid instead of directly from the ShadowTrackr server. It is becoming harder and harder to run a mailing without having your server occasionally blocked. It possible, but it just takes a lot of time that is better invested elsewhere. After a second client complained about not receiving the weekly, the decision was made. If this first run is a success, we’ll be moving mail notifications to Sendgrid as well. Please send a message if your weekly pdf is not in your mailbox on Monday morning.

Certificate scans are running great with the new engine and we hope to start scanning TLS certificates on more ports soon. But capacity has been an issue. The number of clients has been growing, and some have lots of certificates to scan. Even after optimisations the scanning nodes could not keep up. That means time to throw more hardware at it and a chance to add a new scan location: Sydney. The new location might result in existing clients detecting more cloud endpoints if you have services with a global profile on Azure of Amazon (which is good off course).