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

Mastering Zero Trust - Pillars for Security

Zero Trust is a heightened security measure that blocks people and devices from accessing company data by default, only allowing access to those who prove they require it. Zero Trust assumes restricted access to company resources by all: Anyone or anything accessing company resources requires verification each time the system is accessed. There are no options to “trust this device next time” or “save password for next time”.

Templates for Automating Incident Response

A security incident is the last thing any DevOps lead wants to see. Along with the vast number of protocols required to overcome an incident, there’s a hefty amount of paperwork to complete. Security incidents can even lead to legal repercussions, if personal data is leaked. Incident response templates offer insight into: An incident response plan template drastically reduces the time and effort spent dealing with incident reports.

Optimizing Resource Scheduling and Planning in Healthcare

The pandemic has exacerbated the staff shortage in healthcare, placing a disproportionate burden on the industry, and underscoring the significance of effective resource scheduling. While resource scheduling encompasses the allocation of healthcare staff and physical resources and assets, in this blog, our primary focus will be on healthcare staff. Resource scheduling plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of healthcare facilities.

BigPanda-Cribl Integration: Stronger actionable insights within your observability data

Overwhelming volumes and varieties of observability data most businesses encounter on a daily basis is impossible for IT operations teams to manually sift through successfully. This can be a troubling reality when frequent high-value business data is required to consistently maintain the uptime and integrity of your services and applications.

July 2023 Update - New user management, Duty stand-ins, incident response in voice-calls and simplified SSO

User July update includes a new and optimized user management in the web portal and a new feature in the duty scheduler, which allows to easily create stand-ins for scheduled duty personnel. Furthermore, it is now possible to acknowledge or close Signls directly during the call. As always, all details can be found in this blog article.

How to communicate incidents using status pages

Status pages allow organizations to deliver real-time status updates on incidents and scheduled maintenance, which reduces the number of support tickets. It also brings transparency and reliability, thereby earning the trust of customers. Join our webinar to learn how Site24x7's StatusIQ is a great choice to communicate incidents to your end users and customers. In this webinar, we will answer all of your questions about status pages.

Unveiling Multibot, the "glue" for enterprise workflows

How are you delivering Slack incident management workflows that serve the many teams across your enterprise? How are you addressing the differences in their use cases, access needs, isolation needs, and tech stacks, all while enabling everyone to collaborate? These are challenging questions to answer. To effectively do so, you have a host of conditions to support at the team and company-wide levels: ‍ Team ‍ Company-wide ‍

The Unplanned Show, Episode 5: DataOps with Snowflake

Long gone are the days when data is batch loaded into a data warehouse for business intelligence reports that are looked at periodically and if something is broken, a few internal people would have to wait. Today, data pipelines are “infinitely more complicated”, with more sources from cloud services to on premises systems, and supporting data applications that are critical parts of a business’ ecosystem.

Critical Incident Management - Roles and Responsibilities

Critical Incident Management is designed to handle disruptive and unexpected events that threaten to harm an organization or its stakeholders. These incidents range from cyber attacks and system failures to natural disasters and global pandemics. The importance of critical incident management cannot be overstated, as it is a pivotal process that maintains business continuity and ensures smooth operations despite adversities.