A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a list of certificates that have been revoked by the issuing Certificate Authority (CA) before their scheduled expiration date. Those certificates should no longer be trusted. A client application such as an Icinga Agent can use a CRL to verify that the certificate of the server is valid and trusted.

TierPoint is a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the Internet with thousands of customers. At TierPoint, I’m responsible for maintenance and development of the information security program, which includes threat analytics, incident response, and digital forensics. We’re constantly looking for new and even more effective ways to aggregate, process, and make decisions from massive amounts of data streaming in from diverse sources.

It made it into our IT Operations Glossary for 2021 blog last month but got rejected by Wikipedia. Gartner included it in its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020 list and business process management software vendor Appian published a book about it. We’re talking about hyperautomation. Wikipedia’s reservations aside, hyperautomation is a technology trend that’s moving beyond the business process management (BPM) world and into IT operations.

Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizational consultant, helps people declutter their homes in order to live happier, better lives. She once said: Similarly, in security, operational teams are constantly bogged down by a “visible mess” that inhibits their ability to effectively secure their organization.

Did you know that CloudWisdom’s Bill Analysis tool shows you not just the services currently monitored by CloudWisdom but all services to deliver an overall view of your AWS cost? And if you’ve set up and configured consolidated billing to link multiple AWS accounts, you can include data from all those accounts in that view. You can even add multiple billing orgs to the same CloudWisdom account.

As corporations grow, the need to organize user data and assets into a hierarchical structure becomes critical to to simplify storage access of those assets. LDAP enables organizations to store, manage, and secure information about the organization, its users, and assets. In this guide, we’ll explain what LDAP is, its uses, and how it works.

We are excited to share that technology research and analysis provider GigaOm has named VMware Tanzu Observability as a fast-moving leader in its forward-looking assessment of the cloud observability vendor space in 2021. Its cloud observability report considered solution connections; data integration and processing; performance management; root cause analysis; and full-stack observability.

We are delighted to share that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide UEM software 2020-2021 Vendor Assessment for the fourth consecutive year.

Managing IT infrastructure is impossible without proper monitoring solutions and tools. Monitoring requires regular checks on the status, and the best way to gather details would be in the form of reports. Advanced IT monitoring solutions provide an automatic diagnosis of performance and availability issues across your IT network; manual interventions help optimize the process. Manual interventions make sure you don’t miss out on any warning signs before reaching the critical points.