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Since the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4, organizations have been rapidly adopting Agentic AI to automate and enhance their workflows. Agentic AI refers to AI systems that act autonomously, perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking actions based on that information rather than just reacting to direct human input.

Harness Database DevOps integrates Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce database governance through policy as code. By embedding compliance rules directly into CI/CD pipelines, teams can automatically prevent risky database changes, maintain audit trails, and meet regulatory requirements without slowing down development. Database systems store some of the most sensitive data of an organization such as PII, financial records, and intellectual property, making strong database governance non-negotiable.

We’ve made several improvements to Single Sign-On (SSO) in StatusGator to make authentication easier to configure and easier to monitor. As a reminder the StatusGator dashboard includes SAML-based SSO on all plan tiers, even our free plan. This update introduces a simplified SSO setup flow along with a new Audit logs tab that provides visibility into authentication activity.

On May 21, 2019, LinkedIn’s URL shortener went down. The certificate had expired. Millions of people cried out in terror when they couldn’t click on AI link bait. The interesting part: LinkedIn had renewed the certificate ten days earlier. The renewal succeeded. The certificate just never made it to the server. The renewed cert existed somewhere, but the server still served the old one. Most certificate automation is built to prevent the “I forgot to renew” problem.

Ben Avner is the Head of Ecosystem and Strategic Alliances at Apono, where he leads the company’s global partner strategy and technology alliances. He focuses on building and scaling strategic partnerships that drive product innovation, partner-influenced pipeline, and long-term growth. A former founder and engineer, Ben brings a strong technical foundation and a builder’s mindset, combined with experience across marketing, product partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.

In microservices and cloud-native environments, vulnerabilities buried in transitive dependencies or runtime behaviors can go undetected for weeks. During that time, your attack surface keeps expanding and production systems remain exposed. The longer remediation is delayed, the greater the risk of exploitation, compliance failures, and operational disruption.