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In my first blog post of 2023, I wrote about how difficult it seems to be for the average person to set and stick to their New Year’s Resolutions. Stats show that by mid-February, most people’s resolutions have been abandoned and have become a distant memory.

Threat vulnerability management, and managing your attack surface, are critical in the battle against cyberattacks. At some point before an successful attack, the internal process to manage threats and prevent access to sensitive data failed. How could they have done things differently? Were they just managing too much, too often, without the resources they needed?

In observability, finding the root cause of a problem is sometimes likened to finding a needle in a haystack. Considering that the problem might be visible in only a tiny fraction of millions or billions of individual traces, the task of reviewing enough traces to find the right one is daunting and often ends in failure.