With every new device, application and website that your users and employees have to log in to, they have to create a new password. It’s no wonder then that they find this overwhelming. So, what do they do? They create a password that is easy to remember — something like “123456” or perhaps their birth date. Then, to keep it simple, they use the same password over and over again. On top of that, they opt for their browsers and devices to remember these passwords.
When your organization relies on hundreds or thousands of hosts, it can be difficult to ensure that each is equipped with the proper tools and configurations. Configuration management tools like Ansible are designed to help you automatically deploy, manage, and configure hosts across your on-prem and cloud infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Ansible to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent on a dynamic inventory of Windows hosts.
At Vanta, our goal is to nurture a positive security culture in everything we do—which is especially critical given that helping our customers improve their security and compliance posture starts with our own. Employees are the key to our security resilience, so we strive to build and support a strong culture of incident response in tandem. Here’s what that means to us at Vanta.
If you’ve been shying away from exploring co-managed IT services opportunities, it might be time to think again. Co-managed is here to stay, and is likely going to be a big play for MSPs looking to move up market, especially considering the increasing pricing pressures we’re seeing in the market.
What does a normal day look like for your service desk? A flood of incoming tickets. Insufficient data to quickly find the root cause of issues. And a lack of remediation power to close tickets fast. Level 1 (L1) analysts are forced to spend time jumping across tools, reaching out to end users, or relying on guesswork to solve problems.
If you can harness the power of intelligent workflow automation, it has the potential to transform your operations and enable you to deliver on customer expectations. StartingPoint can provide your team with the necessary tools to embrace intelligent workflow automation. Before breaking down this platform, let’s take a step back and define what intelligent workflow automation is.
The days of taking an afternoon off from work to head over to the bank are long gone. Banks have rapidly digitized, offering the vast majority of their services to customers remotely. Now users can save, invest, borrow, and make other financial transactions from the comfort of their smartphone, wherever they are. Despite this consumer-facing digitization, many banks have clung to the status quo when it comes to their field operations.
