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What Is SOC 2 Compliance? Requirements, Controls, and Evidence

Aug 5, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Your largest prospect has asked for your SOC 2 report. The deal sits still until you produce one. Most teams handle the first half of SOC 2 compliance fine. They control access. They run backups. They put changes through approval before anything ships. The second half is what stops them, and that half is proof. Your policy says access gets reviewed every quarter. The auditor wants the dated review, the signature on it, and the same record from eight months ago.
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The Hidden Risk of Scaling AI Without a Single Source of Truth

Aug 5, 2026 By Ivanti In Ivanti
AI doesn’t fail because it’s not smart enough—it fails because it can’t see the full picture. In this video, Sterling Parker, Ivanti’s SVP of Technical Solutions and Services, explains why fragmented and "dirty" data is the biggest obstacle holding AI back for organizations today. When AI pulls from disconnected systems, it’s forced to fill in the gaps with its own intelligence, leading to hallucinations and outcomes that are hard to trust. Sterling breaks down how these "cracks in the foundation" can actually create new security vulnerabilities when scaled too quickly.
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Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing: Differences, Cadence, and Cost

Aug 4, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What do you say when an auditor asks for evidence that your security controls hold, and all you can produce is a scan report from last month? A scan lists weaknesses. It says nothing about whether an attacker could chain three of them together and reach the customer database. Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing answer two different questions about the same environment. The first asks what is exposed right now. The second asks what someone with intent and skill could do with that exposure.
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What Is the MITRE ATT&CK Framework? A Guide for IT Ops Teams

Aug 4, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most IT operations teams cannot say how much of the MITRE ATT&CK framework they already cover. The framework gets explained in the language of threat hunting and red teams. The parts that belong to infrastructure work are easy to miss. And then, coverage questions get answered with a guess. The mismatch costs time on both sides. Security asks for a coverage answer that ops has no clean way to produce. Yet the controls that stop a large share of those techniques already sit with your team.
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The Margin Leak Business Services Firms Can't Bill Away

Aug 4, 2026 By Chanté Frazer In Nexthink
Business services firms are built on people’s time, judgment, and credibility. When a consultant loses half an hour before a client workshop, a legal team is stuck waiting for a document system, or a service delivery group has to move conversations elsewhere because collaboration tools are unreliable, it may not register as a major IT event. It still changes the economics of the work, because skilled time is being spent compensating for the environment instead of serving the client.
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What Is a Vulnerability Scan? How It Works and What the Results Mean

Aug 3, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How many machines in your environment are running software with a publicly documented security flaw right now? That figure comes from an asset inventory, and asset records age quickly once they are written. The gap is rarely about tooling budgets. Software inventory across a few hundred endpoints shifts every week, while the published catalogue of flaws in that software grows every single day. Manual inspection loses that race inside the first month.
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What Is Network Latency? Causes, How to Measure It, and Ways to Reduce It

Aug 3, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Slow application complaints are among the hardest tickets in IT to close. The network gets blamed first; the dashboard shows nothing wrong, and the ticket bounces between teams for a week. Network latency sits at the centre of that argument more often than any other metric. Most dashboards report latency as a single average, and that average hides the slow requests people actually notice. A path can average 30 ms and still drop a call every ten minutes.
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DEX Data Is Too Valuable to Limit to IT

Aug 3, 2026 By Mitchel Trytcha In Nexthink
For many organizations, digital employee experience (DEX) is still viewed as an IT project. It measures endpoint health, identifies performance issues, and helps service desks resolve incidents faster. While that’s useful, it’s also far too small a vision. In order to get the greatest return from DEX, organizations have to stop treating it as exclusively an engineering capability and started treating it as an equally powerful intelligence capability.
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