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BYOD Security Guide: Top Threats & Best Practices

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a policy allowing employees to use their personal devices for work-related activities. It is an approach that promotes flexibility and efficiency and has gained widespread adoption in recent years. The BYOD policy framework outlines guidelines and rules governing the use of personal devices in a professional setting, and its significance lies in establishing boundaries that balance the benefits of flexibility with the need for security and data protection.

Bridging The Gap: The Marketing Hype vs. The Reality of AI in IT

Let's cut through the AI fantasy. You've read the headlines: artificial intelligence is the new electricity, the magic wand transforming businesses overnight. But in my experience working with many clients with InvGate, I've gained some valuable insights. Turns out it’s not all smoke and mirrors. Let's dive into the real story of AI in business, far from the echo chamber of Silicon Valley buzzwords and closer to the tangible reality of everyday corporate life.

4 Hurdles of Multi-Repo Management (and How to Solve Them)

First, let’s break down the differences between mono and multi-repo setups. Mono-repos are exactly what they sound like – singular repositories that hold everything in one place. Multi-repos, however, can scatter the landscape, resulting in separate repos that are all still part of the larger ecosystem. While this approach offers flexibility, it can also make projects way harder to manage.

Network Monitoring Tools Explained

Ensuring the reliability and performance of your network is essential for success in the modern software industry. In this article, you’ll learn about the basics of network monitoring and get an overview of some of the most popular tools used for network monitoring. Whether you’re managing a sprawling enterprise network or your home lab, understanding and deploying the right tools can mean the difference between smooth sailing and unforeseen downtime.

Docker Monitoring with ELK Stack

Dockers are containerization platforms where you can store multitudes of data in a single package ( by dividing them into different containers). Since these are high-volume entities, managing and monitoring them should be a top priority. I’ll tell you why. Because when it grows out of our capabilities, we won't be able to control any errors popping up in it. So, as the saying goes, prevention is better than cure.

Open Source Compliance: Tools, Software + How Configuration Management Streamlines Compliance in OSS Technologies

Security and compliance are important in any organization. And most organizations use open source software (OSS) somewhere in their application stack. Open source compliance keeps OSS technologies secure by making sure they’re used in a way that aligns with security best practices, internal policies, and regulatory expectations.

Are Your Automations Doing Enough? 3 Signs Your Automation Strategy Falls Short

Are your task automations requiring too much manual intervention? Today, task automations help IT solve issues by automatically executing tasks or processes. With task automations today, each step needs to be manually run, checked, and depending on the outcome, followed up by another action. While this kind of automation can streamline operations and improve efficiency, it fails to address more complex issues. That’s where an orchestration engine, like Nexthink Flow, comes in. With orchestration.

Easy guide to Monitor Elasticsearch Using Telegraf and MetricFire

Monitoring Elasticsearch is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability of the search and analytics engine, as it helps identify issues related to query performance, resource utilization, and system health before they impact users. It also provides insights into the efficiency of data indexing and retrieval processes, enabling timely adjustments to configurations, scaling decisions, and optimization of search queries to maintain high availability and fast response times.

Collectd Pandora FMS: Maximizing Monitoring Efficiency

Collectd is a daemon (i.e. running in the background on computers and devices) that periodically collects metrics from different sources such as operating systems, applications, log files, and external devices, providing mechanisms to store values in different ways (e.g. RRD files) or makes it available over the network. With this data and its statistics you may monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks (by performance analysis) and predict system load (capacity planning).

How to record an audit trail for any DevOps process with Kosli Trails

In this article I’m going to introduce Kosli Trails. This is a new feature that allows you to record an audit trail for any DevOps process. It’s already in production and being used to record Terraform pipelines, CI processes, server access, feature toggles, and more.