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The value of blameless culture - from IC to C-Suite

At CircleCI, CI has a second meaning: Continuous Improvement. We continuously seek out feedback not only to improve our code but to improve our processes and get better at our jobs along the way. This Continuous Improvement starts with one important company value: a blameless culture. Our blameless culture extends into every part of how we operate.

How to Automatically Suspend Inactive Accounts Using Torq

Contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers have become essential parts of the modern enterprise. For IT and security teams, these individuals present unique challenges compared to full-time workers—and potential risks. The ‘offboarding’ process for these contractors is often less formal than bringing them on. Meaning, many just stop using their entitlements and accounts without actually closing them. These dormant accounts can pose serious risks to the organization.

Learn Effective Policy Compliance Management with Restorepoint

In the two previous blogs from this series, we showed you how Restorepoint enables you to minimize MTTR to mitigate the impact of change management and remediate after a network breach. The third and final blog of the series walks you through policy compliance management—demonstrating the value of creating a single pane of glass where you can see all relevant information from a single location.

Monitoring your Windows performance metrics with hosted Graphite

Windows is the most popular operating system in the world. It powers not only personal computers and laptops at home but also enterprise servers and systems. Due to the vast use of the software, many solutions to monitor Windows have been developed. In this article, we will discuss an efficient way to monitor Windows and the reason why we want to track the metrics of the operating system. But before we start, check MetricFire.

5 Simple Steps to Create Preview Environments on AWS with Qovery

The process of software development has changed radically. Development is fast-paced and needs testing and staging environments to reflect production accurately. Still, achieving this can be a significant operational hassle. Most engineering teams use a single staging environment, making it hard for developers to test their changes in isolation.

Take control of your telemetry data with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Many organizations manage applications that are supported by a large number of services in multiple environments, ranging from the cloud to their own data centers across the globe. As these organizations scale and accelerate service adoption, the volume of telemetry data in their environments multiplies every year.

Beware the 'Secret Agent' Cloud Middleware

New open source database details the software that cloud service providers typically silently install on enterprises’ virtual machines — often unbeknownst to customers. If cloud services weren’t complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there’s also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws.

How can Guidance Report for AWS help you make data-driven business decisions?

The world is moving into a post-covid era and a cloud boom is on the horizon. Businesses require a higher return on ROI for every penny invested in a cloud service like AWS. To accomplish this, Site24x7 provides a personalized cloud assistant to attain the most out of your cloud investment. Site24x7's Guidance Report for AWS helps you adopt industry best practices in AWS and make informed decisions.

How Small Businesses Can Overcome Asset Management Challenges?

Asset management does not always mean repairing assets when they are broken. It is important that you have assets to utilize when it is required. Hence there are several asset management challenges that occur in the entire process. An organization faces lots of asset management challenges while using assets. What are those challenges? That we will discuss in this blog. So, without wasting any time let us begin! But first, let us know what asset management software is!