Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2021

IT Horror Fest: Session 1

Spooktacular server failures. Frantic support calls that escalate in the night. Everyone in IT has their share of horror stories, and this Halloween we want to bring the very best out of the dark and into the light! Join us for an hour full of storytelling, commiseration, and killer prizes led by a ghastly panel of IT experts including Tom Lawrence (Lawrence Technology Services), Kelvin Tegelaar (CyberDrain), Jason Slagle (CNWR IT Consultants), Matthew Fox (Valiant Technology) and Tom Watson (NinjaRMM).

Co-Existence: Using Legacy VPN with Neurons for Zero Trust Access through the Neurons for Secure Access Platform

There are three aspects of co-existence to discuss. The gateway deployment co-existence, the end user workflow co-existence, and the administrative management co-existence. We will walk through all three of these aspects.

App Control for Linux Opens Up a Whole New World

Ivanti Application Control is known for enabling IT control over endpoints, reducing security risk, and providing a great user experience. Up to now, that experience has always been for users of Windows environments. But with the introduction of Ivanti App Control for Linux, we are opening up a whole new world of possibilities. Ivanti Application Control for Linux brings the major benefits of App Control for Windows to Linux environments.

CPG: Understand your consumers and meet them at the shelves

Product Pricing Isn’t Hocus Pocus. . . Scott Weitzman sits down with Alex Barnes to discuss what exactly Revenue Growth Management is, how it works, and why now is the most important time to focus on consumer retention. As Scott learns, this is not just some magical system that makes prices, but rather something that allows CPG companies to understand their consumers better and help meet them at the shelves.

Ivanti Desktop and Service Management 2021.1 is Now Available!

The new major release of Ivanti Desktop & Server Management (DSM) is now available! This release focuses on more cloud functionality and therefore moves DSM to the future. We have greatly enhanced the DSM connector for Ivanti Neurons to use the collected DSM data directly in Ivanti Neurons for Patch Intelligence. This will allow you to have a much better overview of your environment from the security side.

Ivanti Endpoint Security Now Integrates with Ivanti Neurons for Patch Intelligence!

It does this by delivering automated insight into your risk exposure and helps you to prioritize, based on adversarial risk. In particular, it provides real-time intelligence on vulnerability exploits that are actively trending in the wild, and those that have ties to ransomware.. Ivanti Neurons for Patch Intelligence combines this risk-based prioritization with patch reliability data to help you focus your testing efforts and reduce the overall time to patch.

Introducing Neurons For Secure Access - Saving Time While Providing Unified Visibility and Management For Distributed Ivanti Connect Secure Deployments

Where were you when VPN went from "nice to have for IT staff to remote in on the weekends" to "mission critical for the entire organization" almost overnight in March of 2020? Many companies were caught off-guard, with admins across the country taking a mad scramble to make sure their VPN solution is modern, sized to fit the demands of the remote workforce, and secure for their users.

New Endpoint Manager Release Enhances Experiences, Functionality, and Security

As more organizations continue moving to hybrid work environments, endpoint security and management has never been more critical to both IT staff and employees. IT and line of business teams have too many systems to work across, forcing IT departments to spend resources and budget on fixing assets that are out of warranty/out of support. Additionally, employees are unsatisfied with their onboarding experience.

Align ITSM and PPM to Accelerate Digital Transformation

ITSM’s fundamental processes around request management, incident management, change management, and maintaining a CMDB all provide essential support services to enterprise business processes and employees. These are some of IT’s “run the business” functions that can consume 57% of IT’s resources by one benchmark and be a lot higher for organizations that aren’t investing heavily in digital transformation.

Identity Director 2021.2 Has Arrived! Why Your Business Will Benefit From Adopting Identity Management

Identity and Access Management involves a series of complex and organisational challenges. This brings together people from the whole organisation to engage in workflow management and decision making. Where the tools at hand lack the capacity to integrate key stakeholders into the communication and the decision-making process, the organization suffers.

Ivanti Device Control 5.4 is Now Available!

It's time to talk about a new amazing number (a number I'm very proud of) - the number 10. '10' is not the new version number of Ivanti Device & Application Control - 10 is the number of new features and functionality that we have delivered with our latest product release! We have used all of your valuable feedback to create an even more valuable version of Ivanti Device and Application Control with release 5.4.

NinjaRMM is now NinjaOne

NinjaRMM is now NinjaOne. With NinjaOne, IT teams can automate, manage, and remediate all their IT tasks within one intuitive platform. Making IT teams more efficient and your users more productive. NinjaOne is a unified IT operations platform that combines endpoint management, patching, ticketing, backup, remote control and so much more. NinjaOne supports over 6,000 MSPs and IT departments around the world, and is consistently ranked #1 for it’s world-class customer support, and ease-of-use.

A 'Friendly Ghost' Fixes IT Issues Before You Notice

Here in North America it’s that spooky time of the year again, Halloween. As always, children look forward to this late-October holiday, the chance to dress up in costumes to go door-to-door and amass large hauls of candy treats, leaving their parents to deal with any later ‘tricks’ from associated sugar highs.

3Ps of Security: Protect, Prioritize and Patch

Like a football or soccer team, security also has two lineups that must be continuously managed. One lineup involves protecting the digital assets and data of a business. The other: managing the security risk and vulnerability exposure of these environments and endpoints. The tension between these two lineups keep security and IT very busy. There is a critical shortage of expert security professionals, which means no expanding the bench of talent, even if you can afford it.

Excellence in Software Asset Management

Many, many years ago I briefly taught in an undergraduate chemistry laboratory (mainly marking scripts and samples, as well as extinguishing the occasional fire). I noticed that although students could achieve a reasonable grade by just following the text they were given and answering, “it turned blue” (or whatever), the really good students who got the best results took the time to understand how and why it turned blue.

5 hacks to implement an effective Asset Management in your organization [Cloud]

In the fourth episode of ManageEngine's Masterclass 2021, we will discuss five hacks to implement an effective Asset Management in your organization using ServiceDesk Plus Cloud. In this masterclass you will learn how to:‌Build an accurate repository of assets Create an asset lifecycle to track assets‌‌Utilize assets effectively‌‌Leverage POs and contracts to optimize asset procurement Optimize asset management

Ivanti Provides Support for Windows 11 Today!

Microsoft Windows 11 is now available. In the coming weeks and months, PC vendors will offer an option to purchase a new computer with Windows 10 or Windows 11. Ivanti UEM solutions provide immediate support of Windows 11, allowing IT to discover, manage, secure and service these devices. Regardless of rolling out Windows 11 day-one or taking your time, Ivanti UEM is ready when you are.

Ivanti Delivers Day-Zero Compatibility and Key Feature Support for Android 12

Here at Ivanti, we are excited about Android 12. I’m pleased to share that we offer day-zero compatibility and key feature support across the Ivanti product portfolio for the new features built into Google’s updated OSs. Android 12 brings plenty of new things to see and experience with a combination of security and privacy.

Say hello to Windows 11 with Desktop Central

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on June 24, 2021 at its virtual launch event. Though Windows 11 will be officially available on October 5, 2021, Microsoft has shared the initial beta version with members of its Windows Insider Program. Starting October 5th, Microsoft will roll out the Windows 11 upgrade to eligible Windows 10 PCs, and pre-loaded Windows 11 will be available for sale. The latest OS offers significant improvements to security and management features.

A Detailed Overview About Maintenance Inventory Software

Managing inventory is not as simple as it seems, especially when you have a huge office, multiple facilities, or multiple branches to control. Inventory management includes lots of factors that impact business and inventory is crucial for business and it can be a major part of your business, or it can be MRO (Maintenance repair operation).