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Incident Management

The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

What is Vulnerability Management?

Vulnerability management is a critical aspect of a cybersecurity strategy. It refers to the systematic and ongoing process of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, and addressing security vulnerabilities in a network environment. This proactive approach to network security aims to minimize the risk of exploitation by attackers. Vulnerability management is about staying one step ahead of potential threats.

Security - A Pillar of Reliability

When you think about making your service reliable, what standards and benchmarks are most important? The availability of services? Consistently fast responses? Accurate data? Prioritizing critical and common use cases? These are all important and deserve some focus, but today we’ll put the spotlight on an often overlooked pillar: security. ‍ Cybersecurity incidents can be the most devastating types of incident for your organization.

Unleash the potential of intelligent, context-aware automation with BigPanda and Ansible

Many ITOps organizations we speak with want a state of self-healing systems capable of identifying and resolving issues without human intervention. Thanks to the progress in AI and ML, AIOps has made significant advancements in areas that automate many of the steps involved with identifying and triaging incidents. We ask ITOps leaders why they aren’t taking the next step with auto-remediating incident response workflows.

Status Pages and Incident Management for Higher Education

Elevate your higher education experience with StatusCast! Watch our exclusive system outage video to discover crucial insights and proactive strategies to ensure uninterrupted operations in the dynamic landscape of academia. Learn from real-life scenarios and gain valuable knowledge on maintaining system reliability, minimizing downtime, and enhancing the overall efficiency of your educational institution. Stay ahead in the digital age of higher education with StatusCast – because your institution's success depends on a robust and resilient IT infrastructure!

Incident communication best practices for an elevated user experience

Downtime is unavoidable, and incidents happen. Organizations need to be rapid and transparent in communicating incidents with their customers. Lack of timely communication can jeopardize the entire incident management process and increase user frustration. This guide provides rich insights into what incident communication is, why it's important, and best practices for effective incident management. What is an incident, and why is incident communication important?

Understanding intelligent alerts in ITOps and alert management best practices

As an ITOps leader, you know managing enterprise IT can be challenging, with its mix of old and new, on-site and cloud-based systems. Closely monitoring each part of the system infrastructure and its many components is a constant struggle, forcing you and your team to juggle non-stop alerts and keep services up and running. How can you stop alert fatigue and gain clarity when alerts are incessant, unclear, and lack the necessary context? The answer lies in intelligent alerts.

A tool rationalization head start with BigPanda

Tool rationalization, sometimes called tool consolidation, is the systematic analysis of observability and monitoring tools, the consideration of onboarding new tools to fill gaps, and the retirement of unnecessary tools. Perhaps you and your IT team are struggling with constantly buying new tools to meet a very niche use case to unlock new capabilities.