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Cyber threats are increasing in severity and frequency, and organizations across a wide range of industries and sizes must stay prepared for outages and other incidents. To protect against these risks, smart enterprises are increasingly embracing cyber resilience, which goes above and beyond cybersecurity practices and helps teams better anticipate, react to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. This, in turn, ensures the long-term health and success of the business.

Cloudsmith does more than store and manage artifacts. It protects them, too. In this article, we explain how you can prevent software supply chain threats by using our platform as a vital isolation layer between your binaries and risks in public open source repositories.

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

The SharePoint REST API is a powerful tool that allows developers to interact with SharePoint data and resources remotely. Whether you’re managing documents, configuring sites, or building custom applications, the REST API provides a flexible, efficient way to programmatically access and manipulate data within a SharePoint environment.

Steve Jobs once said that giving customers what they wanted wasn’t his approach. “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do,” he said instead. “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” By now, this wisdom has become canonical for companies targeting end-users, but we tend to ignore it when we’re building products and processes for professional users.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is nearly upon us. This wide-reaching piece of legislation will introduce new requirements, checks and balances on developers, retailers and device manufacturers; many of the looming demands haven’t gone down well in the open source community.

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, 80% of organizations will use cloud automation tools to orchestrate workloads. The firm also forecasts that spending on public cloud services will hit $679 billion by the end of 2024, with SaaS leading the cloud computing market. This surge in cloud spending will shape the future of SaaS, and cloud automation tools will play a key role in this transformation.

Many SaaS companies struggle to get engineers to take charge of costs and lower cloud expenses. Confused business leaders often put the problem on the shoulders of the engineers: Surely, it’s just that the engineers don’t care enough to stay within budget, or maybe they just don’t want to participate in the culture of cost efficiency leadership is trying to build. But what if your engineers actually do want to optimize costs—they just don’t have the tools and data to do so?