We’re pleased to introduce updates to Puppet Enterprise that give infrastructure operations teams the insights they need to manage and protect infrastructure and complex workflows in a simple yet powerful way. With Puppet Enterprise 2021.7, teams gain automatic access control and a host of system insights related to runs and events.

In today’s increasingly complex IT and networking environments, automated patch management is a critical component to maintaining business operations and keeping organizations secure. Organizations are constantly under threat, with the average seeing 497 cyberattacks every week, and automated patching is one part of cybersecurity hygiene that helps reduce an organization’s attack surface.

Every manufacturing unit thinks of maximizing its profits, which can be done by enhancing its production or reducing expenses. Asset management software can be helpful in increasing return on investment (ROI). To increase productivity, one must follow a rigid process of good management in the whole system. Automation plays a very important role in this.

“Automation” and “orchestration” are terms that frequently appear within the same sentence – which is unsurprising, because they are closely related. In fact, they’re so similar in meaning that it can be easy to confuse their meanings or assume that there is basically no real difference between security automation and orchestration. But, as with many concepts in the world of IT and security (“observability” vs.