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CircleCI config policies: A tale of empowerment and control

If you’ve worked in a large, security-minded organization, you know how developers’ need for speed often clashes with the organization’s need for security. Often this conflict erupts into a high-stakes battle between two teams with very different priorities and perspectives. Ok, it may not always be so dramatic, but the challenge of control and empowerment is very real.

The Role of Video in Microlearning on Mobile Devices

People spend a large part of their day on their mobile devices, mostly consuming video content. Short-form videos like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have become the preferred form of content for viewers. This makes video content for microlearning on mobile devices a perfect pairing. Microlearning is a form of delivering course content in small bits so that the learner can easily understand and retain it.

Best SysAdmin Tools for IT Professionals

From remote desktop to endpoint security, what solutions are IT professionals relying on most to power their businesses and keep their team efficient and ahead? To find out, we pulled ratings from G2 and Capterra for 90+ products across 9 different software categories. The result is this guide full of comparison charts, highlighting how individual products stack up against one another in terms of overall satisfaction, usability, and quality of support.

Building a culture of incident response

At Vanta, our goal is to nurture a positive security culture in everything we do—which is especially critical given that helping our customers improve their security and compliance posture starts with our own. Employees are the key to our security resilience, so we strive to build and support a strong culture of incident response in tandem. Here’s what that means to us at Vanta.

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.

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.

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!