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The why and how behind running incident response game days

In any high pressure situation, the key to fast action is preparedness. And that’s true when it comes to incidents, too. Documenting and training your team on your incident response processes is essential to ensuring a coordinated and efficient response effort. And training sessions, or game days, as they’re sometimes called, are one way to get everyone up to speed.

The 5 Biggest Enterprise Threats to Your Mobile Security and How to Prevent Them

The 5 Biggest Threats: You may have found your business is relying on mobile devices more and more. The computing power of phones and tablets can now equal that of your average desktop computer, but their portability makes them far more useful in a remote working environment. With the number of online communications options available to mobile devices, making a call on a mobile phone is almost an afterthought – but with a cloud business phone system, it is an option that is supported.

Redgate opens the doors to cross-database DevOps Test Data Management

A constant challenge for many development teams is how to include test data management in the development process. Testing with consistent, realistic and compliant datasets, and bringing the database into CI and DevOps pipelines, has been shown to catch data-related issues long before they reach customers. The result: an increase in efficiency, a reduction in costs, and an improvement in the quality of software releases, enabling value to be released to customers faster.

Migrating Graphite to the Cloud

Are you ready to take your monitoring and analysis game to the next level? As businesses increasingly shift to the cloud, migrating Graphite metrics to the cloud has become critical to unlocking the full potential of real-time performance monitoring. In this article, we'll guide you through migrating Graphite to the cloud and show you how to make the transition as smooth as possible. So grab a cup of coffee, and let's dive in!

Maximizing Password Security: A Guide for IT Professionals on World Password Day

With every new device, application and website that your users and employees have to log in to, they have to create a new password. It’s no wonder then that they find this overwhelming. So, what do they do? They create a password that is easy to remember — something like “123456” or perhaps their birth date. Then, to keep it simple, they use the same password over and over again. On top of that, they opt for their browsers and devices to remember these passwords.

How to deploy the Datadog Agent on Windows with Ansible

When your organization relies on hundreds or thousands of hosts, it can be difficult to ensure that each is equipped with the proper tools and configurations. Configuration management tools like Ansible are designed to help you automatically deploy, manage, and configure hosts across your on-prem and cloud infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Ansible to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent on a dynamic inventory of Windows hosts.

Troubleshooting with Bunnyshell

This video demonstrates how to troubleshoot various issues using Bunnyshell, including failed builds, broken backend, and issues caused by generic components. Learn how to access pipeline logs, container outputs, and Kubernetes resources for debugging, as well as how to perform SSH into containers and port forward for databases. By utilizing these techniques, you can efficiently identify and resolve problems without needing direct access to the Kubernetes cluster or infrastructure.

Create Environments from a Template in Bunnyshell

In this tutorial, learn how to create environments in Bunnyshell using custom templates. Templates help to streamline the process of setting up environments, making it faster and more reliable. The video demonstrates how to create environments for development and staging from custom templates and provides an overview of how to deploy them. By using templates, you can ensure consistency and predictability across your projects.

CTO Fundamentals II - 3:4 CTO Legacy Webinar Recording

Corneliu Fatulescu has more than 23 years of experience in SaaS, two-sided markets, user-generated content, and media products. Currently, he's leading a team of 60 engineers working on defining the technology strategy and vision at the group level. Have you ever assumed another CTO's legacy? Did you say, "Wow! I love it. We have a solid foundation. We need to keep going, and everything will be alright"? Or was it more like, "this is a sinking mess"?