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Want to improve your incident response plan? Focus on better incident communication.

Resolving the incident is only half the battle when it comes to responding to incidents. For many teams, incident communication is an afterthought, leaving stakeholders inside and outside the organization guessing what happened. But ensuring that important information about the incident is disseminated clearly and quickly is essential.

What you need to know & do to be a world-class cyber incident responder

World-class incident responders are a strategic asset in today’s world where the frequency and sophistication of cyber security attacks continue to increase every year, as do the associated financial damages: As such, more and more organizations are looking to grow their cyber incident response expertise, both with inhouse staff as well as by engaging with third-party experts.

incident.io + Indent - on-demand system access

At incident.io, we empower teams to run incidents quickly and effectively from start to finish. One of the ways we help is by taking the manual admin out of your incidents. More often than not, folks are spending too much time thinking about the process, when the time would be better spent focusing on fixing. Our automated workflows, nudges and prompts help to embed best practices and unlock time for more impactful work.

Driving a customer-focused incident response process

Deep into an incident, Slack firing, up to your ears in decisions, not sure where to turn next? It’s easy for external communication with your customers to fall far down the list of priorities in these moments. However, these are the exact situations where comms are vital, and where underestimating their importance can having damaging and lasting effects on your organisation.

Automate incident response workflows with Eventarc and Datadog

Eventarc is a Google Cloud offering that ingests and routes events between GCP products, such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub, making it easy to build automated, event-driven workflows in complex environments. By taking care of event ingestion, delivery, authorization, and error handling, Eventarc reduces the development overhead that is required to build and maintain these workflows and helps you improve application resilience.

Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn

It is important to invest time and effort in understanding why a system performs the way it does and how we can improve it. Companies continue with practices that yield successful results, but ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than choosing rigid processes. In this blog we will explore anti-patterns in incident response and why you should unlearn those.

What's New: Updates to Incident Response, PagerDuty Process Automation, Integrations, and More!

Following another successful PagerDuty Summit, development continues across several areas of the product. We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Recent updates from the product team include Incident Response, PagerDuty® Process Automation and PagerDuty® Runbook Automation, Partner Integrations & Ecosystem, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates.

Our fully-redesigned incident response experience delivers a more intuitive workflow

Today we’re releasing fully redesigned Slack and Command Center experiences for FireHydrant so anyone on your team can intuitively navigate the incident response process — in the app or on the web. There are many things you can do ahead of an incident to help things run smoothly: design and document your process, automate predictable steps, train the team, and run drills.

Streamline incident response on a unified platform

Incident response is at the heart of great, or terrible, user experience. However, while tools have evolved, challenges – especially faced by L1 agents – still exist. The solution isn’t about getting more tools. It’s about establishing a unified platform across the IT service desk and the IT Operations teams that empowers L1 agents to collaborate across silos with L2 agents, subject matter experts, and DevOps personnel.

More Powerful than Ever: PagerDuty's Revamped Mobile App is Primed for Even Better Incident Response

2020 revolutionized how we work. Many went from full-time office work to 100% remote overnight. And now that in-office is once again on the horizon, companies are thinking of ways to continue to work flexibly. However, this comes with increased challenges, and a need for tools that match this working style. The PagerDuty mobile application is well recognized, with a 4.8 stars rating on the App Store and Google Play.