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Stop Manual Checks: Automating DORA Compliance for Cloud Dependencies

Financial services organizations face increasing pressure to comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) while managing complex cloud infrastructures. Manual compliance checks for third-party dependencies are no longer sustainable. This guide explores how to automate DORA third-party risk management, ensuring continuous compliance without the overhead of manual processes.

Sentry x Acquired

On October 23, 2025, Sentry hosted a special live event featuring the hosts of the Acquired podcast, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Together, we spoke with some of today’s most inspiring leaders across tech and sports. Whether you’re a longtime Acquired listener or new to Sentry, tune into this rare chance to hear directly from some of the people shaping the next generation of everything from technology and storytelling to leadership and more.

Grafana Campfire - Using Git Sync (Grafana Community Call -Nov 2025)

For our upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we'll explore Grafana Git Sync, a powerful new feature that enables seamless dashboard-as-code workflows. Git Sync bridges the gap between Grafana's UI and your version control system, allowing you to manage dashboards with the same rigor and collaboration practices you use for application code.

Protecting PII in Synthetic Monitoring: How to Monitor Safely

Synthetic monitoring feels like the safest layer in the observability stack. It uses artificial users. It runs scripted journeys. It never touches real customer accounts. Yet this is exactly why many teams overlook the privacy exposure hidden inside it. Synthetic tests often produce screenshots, network captures, HTML snapshots, console logs, authentication artifacts or even short screencasts.

Building Your DORA Register: Map Critical ICT Third-Party Providers

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires financial institutions to maintain a comprehensive register of their critical ICT third-party providers. This register isn't just a compliance checkbox, it's a strategic tool for managing operational risk and ensuring business continuity. Building an effective DORA register requires systematic identification, classification, and continuous monitoring of your SaaS dependencies.

Third-Party Vendor Status Monitoring: Automate Visibility and Accountability

Modern IT teams rely on dozens, or even hundreds, of third-party SaaS tools. From Workday and Cloudflare to Slack, Zoom, and GitHub, your business depends on these services to function. When a vendor outage occurs, the consequences are immediate: internal tools fail, support tickets spike, and leadership demands answers. Recent events, like the widespread Cloudflare outage in November 2025, highlight how quickly things can spiral out of control.

A Financial Business Case for Migrating Citrix Workloads from VMware to XenServer

In our previous blog post, we outlined why Citrix VAD/DaaS customers using VMware should consider migrating to XenServer. With Citrix now officially supporting XenServer for non-Citrix workloads and Broadcom’s recent licensing changes, many organizations are reevaluating their virtualization strategy.