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Always Audit Ready: Streamlining SOC 2 & ISO Compliance with Cortex

Stop dreading your next audit. If you’ve ever survived a SOC 2, ISO, or regulatory audit, you know the drill: weeks of manual data pulling, hunting for owners, and frantic spreadsheet updates. In this video, we show you how Cortex transforms compliance from a painful annual event into a continuous, automated process. What we cover: The "Audit Scramble" vs. "Always Ready": Why manual snapshots fail and how a living service landscape keeps you compliant 365 days a year.

Is Your Org Ready for Peak Season? How to Automate Production Readiness with Cortex

Stop relying on hope as a production readiness strategy. Whether it’s Black Friday, tax season, or a major product launch, engineering leaders need to know—with 100% certainty—if their systems can handle the load. In this video, Becka demonstrates how Cortex replaces manual, time-consuming readiness reviews with a continuous, automated framework. What we cover: The Readiness Gap: Why manual self-reporting and static spreadsheets fail during high-traffic periods.

FinOps in the Age of Kubernetes: When Everyone Owns the Bill

A FinOps analyst walks into a Monday morning meeting with a detailed spreadsheet showing $2.3M in potential Kubernetes cost savings. The recommendations look straightforward: reduce memory limits by 40%, scale down replicas during off-peak hours, consolidate workloads onto fewer nodes. The numbers are compelling, the methodology is sound, and the savings would make a material impact on quarterly cloud spend. The SRE team immediately objects.

New dotConnect and Entity Developer Release: EF Core 10, AI Vector Types, and Expanded Database Compatibility

We are thrilled to announce a set of product updates across our dotConnect data providers and Entity Developer. The new release adds support for Entity Framework Core 10, introduces AI-focused vector data types across major databases, and extends compatibility with the newest platform capabilities such as SQL Server 2025, Oracle 26ai, and Microsoft Entra authentication.

Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock

Recent outages tied to AI-assisted code changes have pushed companies into a corner. After several incidents with massive “blast radius” impacts, organizations like Amazon introduced stricter controls—mandating that senior engineers manually review all AI-generated code before it hits production. That response makes sense on paper, but it exposes a fatal flaw in the modern development pipeline.

GreenOps in Practice: What It Means and How to Get Ready for 2026

In this informational webinar, Freddie Booth, FinOps Consultant at Capgemini Invent, explains what GreenOps means in the context of modern cloud operations. You’ll learn why GreenOps is gaining attention across organizations using Azure, how it connects cost management with sustainability, and what steps teams can take today to start preparing for 2026. The session focuses on practical ways to improve cloud efficiency, reduce unnecessary Azure usage, and align FinOps practices with emerging sustainability goals.

Streamlining your NIS2 and DORA compliance solution with HAProxy

With NIS2 and DORA now in effect, EU organizations face a fundamental shift in how they approach security. Compliance is a standard built into every layer of your environment, from your hardware and OS to your software configuration. HAProxy alone doesn't make an organization compliant, yet it serves as a critical technical component of a strong security strategy.

Test Data Management and SOC 2 Compliance

Using live data outside production is one of the fastest ways to create compliance risk, because it quickly becomes harder to control who can access it, how it is handled, and how long it is kept. A Test Data Management (TDM) approach provides exactly the kind of controls SOC 2 auditors look for in this situation: an automated, traceable end-to-end process for protecting, provisioning, and removing customer data so it can be used safely in non-production environments.