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The 5 Biggest Enterprise Threats to Your Mobile Security and How to Prevent Them

The 5 Biggest Threats: You may have found your business is relying on mobile devices more and more. The computing power of phones and tablets can now equal that of your average desktop computer, but their portability makes them far more useful in a remote working environment. With the number of online communications options available to mobile devices, making a call on a mobile phone is almost an afterthought – but with a cloud business phone system, it is an option that is supported.

Redgate opens the doors to cross-database DevOps Test Data Management

A constant challenge for many development teams is how to include test data management in the development process. Testing with consistent, realistic and compliant datasets, and bringing the database into CI and DevOps pipelines, has been shown to catch data-related issues long before they reach customers. The result: an increase in efficiency, a reduction in costs, and an improvement in the quality of software releases, enabling value to be released to customers faster.

Migrating Graphite to the Cloud

Are you ready to take your monitoring and analysis game to the next level? As businesses increasingly shift to the cloud, migrating Graphite metrics to the cloud has become critical to unlocking the full potential of real-time performance monitoring. In this article, we'll guide you through migrating Graphite to the cloud and show you how to make the transition as smooth as possible. So grab a cup of coffee, and let's dive in!

Maximizing Password Security: A Guide for IT Professionals on World Password Day

With every new device, application and website that your users and employees have to log in to, they have to create a new password. It’s no wonder then that they find this overwhelming. So, what do they do? They create a password that is easy to remember — something like “123456” or perhaps their birth date. Then, to keep it simple, they use the same password over and over again. On top of that, they opt for their browsers and devices to remember these passwords.

How to deploy the Datadog Agent on Windows with Ansible

When your organization relies on hundreds or thousands of hosts, it can be difficult to ensure that each is equipped with the proper tools and configurations. Configuration management tools like Ansible are designed to help you automatically deploy, manage, and configure hosts across your on-prem and cloud infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Ansible to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent on a dynamic inventory of Windows hosts.

Building a culture of incident response

At Vanta, our goal is to nurture a positive security culture in everything we do—which is especially critical given that helping our customers improve their security and compliance posture starts with our own. Employees are the key to our security resilience, so we strive to build and support a strong culture of incident response in tandem. Here’s what that means to us at Vanta.

Node.js Example - Remote Development

This video demonstrates how to perform remote development on a Node.js environment by synchronizing files between the local machine and the remote environment. Using the demo books application, learn how to initiate remote development and sync local files with the remote backend component. This process involves starting an SSH server in the container, manually restarting the application, and making changes to the application that automatically trigger a restart upon saving.

How Mobile Device Management Can Change Banking

The days of taking an afternoon off from work to head over to the bank are long gone. Banks have rapidly digitized, offering the vast majority of their services to customers remotely. Now users can save, invest, borrow, and make other financial transactions from the comfort of their smartphone, wherever they are. Despite this consumer-facing digitization, many banks have clung to the status quo when it comes to their field operations.