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Torq, the security automation leader, today announced 800% revenue growth and 10X customer growth in its second year of operation in 2022, and hitting the milestone of 1,000,000+ daily security automations. Torq also announced the Torq Advisory Board featuring global cybersecurity visionaries, and the appointment of Paulo Veloso, Vice President of Sales, Americas. Recently, Torq has also released critical industry-leading capabilities with the introduction of Parallel Execution and Torq Insights.

I have stopped using my Linux distro’s package manager, and you should, too. Maybe I should clarify that. I don’t install software with my distro’s package manager any more. I still upgrade my system. I became influenced by a few different factors. Top among these is something required in certain industries called a change advisory board or committee.

The System Administrator! AKA the Sysadmin. The keeper of the network, computers – well basically all things technology. The one who is hated for imposing complex passwords and other restrictions, but taken for granted when everything works well. They are the first to be called when “facebuuk.com” reports: “domain does not exist”.

Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its preceding protocol, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are essential to the modern Internet. Encrypting network communications using TLS protects users and organizations from publicly exposing in-transit data to third parties. This is especially important for the web, where TLS secures HTTP traffic (HTTPS) between backend servers and customers’ browsers.

You’re responsible for administering hundreds to thousands of server endpoints deployed at your company. You receive daily requests from the application teams requiring agents be installed on new servers, from the compliance team tracking agent upgrades and from the operations team concerned logs and metrics are missing from the dashboards they’re monitoring. You review your workload and realize you must log into each individual server for every request you’ve received.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a strong trend emerging in enterprise network security, representing the long-term capability to integrate and consolidate a variety of networking and cybersecurity tools. Let’s do a quick dive on the technology to understand why it’s necessary. SASE emerged as an outgrowth of the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology movement, which made it easier to configure, orchestrate, and manage WAN connectivity from enterprise branches.