In an era where digital threats are evolving rapidly, securing your Office 365 environment has never been more crucial. Office 365, a suite known for its robust productivity tools, also demands a proactive approach to security. This blog post delves into essential practices and strategies to fortify your Office 365 setup against various cyber threats.

As we approach 2024, the DevOps and SRE landscapes continue to evolve, bringing forth a new generation of tools designed to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability in software development and operations. In this post, we'll dive into some of the most promising tools that are shaping the future of Continuous integration and deployment, monitoring and observability, infrastructure/application platforms, incident management & alerting, security, and diagramming.

As an administrator of an expanding, highly distributed infrastructure, you may be responsible for overseeing thousands of on-premise and cloud resources from multiple providers—governed under dozens of accounts by a complex nest of RBAC rules. To query all these resources for purposes such as compliance audits and access management, you may be required to write custom scripts and painstakingly sift through data across disparate tools.

The state of financial services today spotlights core banking digitization and the bigger-than-life disruption it’s causing in the industry. It makes sense that going to the bank sounds like an errand people no longer need to run. Even though 77 percent of banking consumers still use traditional banks in some capacity, 43 percent keep their funds elsewhere, and 61 percent will likely switch to a digital-only provider, Galileo Financial Technologies found.

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

We care a lot about the pace of shipping at incident.io: moving fast is a fundamental part of our company culture, and out-pacing your competition is one of the best ways we know to win. In engineering teams, one way to ship fast is to invest in tools that make your team more productive. We've become good at identifying small pains and frustrations that slow us down over time and – after surfacing them to the rest of the team – find solutions for them.