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certkit

The NSA said wildcard certificates are bad. Everyone uses them anyway.

Oct 12, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
In October 2021 the NSA published an advisory titled “Avoid Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates.” It reiterated what security consultants had been saying for years: don’t use wildcard certificates. Single-name certificates per host are safer. Five years later, we counted the certificates that are actually used. One in three domains has a wildcard on it. For.bank domains, where you need a security review just to register, it’s four in five. Operators aren’t careless.
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hyperping

Best Log Management Tools in 2026 [35 Analyzed]

Oct 11, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Summarize with ChatGPT Claude The best log management tools are Hyperping for logs attached to the incident your uptime or log alert opened, Better Stack for low per-GB log prices, Datadog for logs next to APM and infrastructure, Grafana Cloud Logs for Loki and LogQL, Axiom for high log volume on a small bill, New Relic for 100 GB a month free, SigNoz for OpenTelemetry with a self-hosted option, and Sentry Logs for logs next to the errors you already track. I analyzed 35 products and shortlisted eight.
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How to Reduce Cart Abandonment Without Relying on Discounts

How to Reduce Cart Abandonment Without Relying on Discounts

Oct 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Cart abandonment can be a problem for many successful ecommerce businesses when the customers add items to their carts and then leave the page before completing their purchase. Offering a percentage off on each purchase may convince some customers to return and complete their order. However, this may limit the company's profits because the customers are taught to wait before buying. A better solution would be trying to figure out why the clients abandon their carts and fix the problems they encounter on the website.
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How to Prepare Storage Containers for Temporary Warehouse Closure

How to Prepare Storage Containers for Temporary Warehouse Closure

Oct 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A company's temporary closure of its warehouses can create a serious challenge, if its inventories, equipment, and supplies are not placed in different storage locations or brought to a halt for a short period of time. During such occurrences, the corporations have a responsibility to either ensure enough free space for stashing goods or move their properties elsewhere, if continued functioning in new conditions remains possible while still meeting customer demands during this time.
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Custom Mugs for Business: How to Design and Order Branded Mugs Online

Custom Mugs for Business: How to Design and Order Branded Mugs Online

Oct 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
To design and order custom mugs for your business, use a platform that handles both the artwork and the printing. In Adobe Express, you can design and print your own coffee mug from corporate templates, add your logo, fonts, and colors, and order 11 oz or 15 oz printed mugs directly in the US, UK, Australia, or Canada.
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manageengine

The recovery playbook every IT team needs to get ahead of downtime

Oct 10, 2026 By Sangavi D In ManageEngine
Most downtime doesn't come from problems your team can't solve. It comes from problems they've already solved sitting in a runbook or a text file, waiting for someone to run the fix manually. The fix is documented, and the steps are proven, yet the recovery still takes 40 minutes because a human has to log in and type it out. Workflow automation exists specifically to close that gap: The fix runs the moment the alert is triggered, not when someone sees it.
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Not All AI Tools Will Survive the Shakeout

Oct 10, 2026 By NinjaOne In NinjaOne
Not every AI tool has staying power, and the ones that last are the ones that fit your organization’s strategy. AI is following the same arc as the cloud push and the dot-com era: a massive boom, then a contraction. Before you invest, ask what will actually make a difference in your org, and build from there. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.
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Digital Sovereignty Panel: Who Really Controls Your Data? | Civo Navigate London

Oct 10, 2026 By Civo In Civo
Your data sits in the UK. But who has the final say over it? As AI raises the stakes on where data lives and who controls it, digital sovereignty has moved from policy debate to boardroom priority. At Civo Navigate London, Lord Paul Drayson, Simon Hansford, Richard Woodfield of DataVita, Dan Chester of VAST Data and Ed Barker of Havishams explore what sovereignty really means for governments, businesses and the infrastructure behind them, and what it will take for the UK to adopt AI without giving up control.
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Aiven

Observability is a data problem

Oct 10, 2026 By Tony Piazza | In Aiven
TL;DR Metrics, logs, and traces each have a different shape, so each needs a different backend. Aiven for Metrics handles metrics and alerting, Aiven for OpenSearch handles keyword search across logs, and Aiven for ClickHouse handles analysis of high-volume, high-cardinality events. All three are upstream open source engines on the same Aiven platform, so you can start with one and add the others as your needs change.
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