Playbooks are a powerful tool to automate common actions in your incident response process. It's like a pre-programmed sequence of steps your team should take when specific incidents occur. Instead of scrambling to remember protocols or manually initiating a series of tasks, responders can activate a Playbook with a single click. This triggers a predefined set of actions, such as notifying team members, setting incident severity/priority, or creating support tickets, all tailored to the nature of the incident.

At Cycle.io, we see many unique situations involving data requirements, retention, and security. As a multi/hybrid cloud and LowOps platform, we've had to come up with some pretty interesting solutions for backups and data protection. Dive in with Cycle's co-founder and head of engineering, Alexander Mattoni, as he is easily able to deploy a postgres instance, with automated backups to offsite storage in the span of minutes.

In an ever-evolving cybersecurity climate, safeguarding endpoints against threats has never been more paramount in today’s constantly evolving cybersecurity space. Endpoint management plays a key role in ensuring key security tools like antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) software are present and operational, while automating endpoint hardening that promotes a stronger security posture.