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Security Through Automation

Today’s approach to securing IT infrastructure is passé. In a dynamic world of unpredictable and often frequent infrastructure changes, the traditional approach to security falls short. It is no longer sufficient to just scan frequently for vulnerabilities and then try to interpret this data in real time without (human) error. Additionally, despite smart analytics, this approach to illuminating security issues and remediating them is extremely time consuming.

Continuous Operations for Competitive Advantage

06/19/2014 Webinar with CFEngine Co-Founder and CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O'Donnell to discuss the principles of continuous operations and service management -- and how great service design combined with automation can empower your organization to survive and thrive in what is becoming know as "The Age of the Customer."

Getting Started with CFEngine - 2014-03-18

Learn how to avoid downtime by tracking system drifts, how to increase the robustness and security of your system, and make sure you adhere to compliance standards using CFEngine. In this "Getting Started with CFEngine" webinar we covered how to achieve all those benefits using CFEngine policies, promises, and sketches. Use the examples in these slides to start your own CFEngine implementation.

IT Automation with CFEngine - Business Value and Use Cases - March-2014

Automation has been central to infrastructure management and more recently to the continuous delivery of applications, DevOps. What has changed is the scale at which these are conducted. CFEngine delivers IT automation at Web-Scale. Scale in this context includes speed and agility along with size. So, smaller organizations can also benefit from IT automation for their infrastructure and continuous delivery needs.