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How to Secure Your PHP Infrastructure and Remediate PHP2Shell with Puppet

Oct 22, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
The detailed flaw coined “php2shell” is inherent in the PHP language itself, with multiple versions of PHP affected that have been released on the last decade. Ryan Austin, a Calif researcher who helped uncover the issue told the BBC it was, “The most serious vulnerability I’ve ever found". Wiz wrote in a blog post about the detailed findings that would allow hackers to exploit the PHP2Shell issue and take control of an affected web server.
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What Is a Citizen Developer, and Why IT Teams Need Them Now

Oct 22, 2026 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
"Citizen developer" sounds simple: give business teams low-code tools and let them solve their own process problems. In practice, many organizations discover that the tools are still too technical for the intended builders or too loosely governed for IT to trust. Both problems matter. A policy cannot create citizen developers if the tool still demands platform expertise. An approachable builder cannot scale safely if workflows operate outside permissions, testing, audit, and lifecycle controls.
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Dispatching Ansible playbooks with CFEngine

Oct 21, 2026 By Lars Erik Wik In CFEngine
In large organizations and infrastructures, it’s fairly common to use multiple configuration management tools. There are many reasons for this. Different teams may have different preferences, some tools suit certain use cases better than others, and existing systems can come with their own limitations. Whatever the reason, the tools don’t have to work in isolation. In this post, we’ll show how to run Ansible playbooks on CFEngine-managed hosts using Mission Portal.
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How to Actually Test AI Agents Before Production

Oct 21, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Fran Fernandez and Pramin Pradeep, co-founder and CEO of BotGauge AI, delve into how AI is changing software development, quality assurance, and enterprise IT. Pramin explains why faster AI-assisted coding has created new pressure on testing, why companies need visibility into every agent operating in their environment, and how red teaming, tracing, production observability, and human oversight can help organizations deploy agents safely.
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What Happens When You Outgrow a No-Code AI Agent Builder?

Oct 20, 2026 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
A no-code AI agent builder can get a defined agent into production quickly. The risk appears when added branches, exceptions, integrations, and controls exceed the visual canvas. Organizations should look for a platform that lets teams extend individual steps with reusable code without rebuilding the agent or abandoning its governance.
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How to End Tribal Knowledge and Make Every IT Practitioner an Expert

Oct 20, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Every IT organization has a small group of people who hold the answers everyone else depends on, and that dependency carries a cost that never appears on a dashboard. It shows up in constant interruptions, on-call rotations that keep routing back to the same names, investigations rebuilt from scratch every time an incident resurfaces, and the pressure carried by the one person who knows how the environment behaves under stress.
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Antivirus scanning with CFEngine and ClamAV

Oct 19, 2026 By Ihor Aleksandrychiev In CFEngine
Is the antivirus on your servers working correctly right now? Installing ClamAV takes a single command. The hard part is keeping it running on all servers, since freshclam fails without indicating a problem, cron jobs disappear, and no one notices until an audit. The new ClamAV module deals with this by ensuring that ClamAV remains operational on all hosts and also indicates to you in the Mission Portal when it isn’t.
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The Growing Divide Between Digital Simplicity and Real-World Complexity

The Growing Divide Between Digital Simplicity and Real-World Complexity

Oct 17, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A banking app can approve a transaction in seconds. An AI assistant can produce a detailed report from a single instruction. Yet correcting a banking error or verifying an AI-generated report can take hours. This contradiction is becoming more visible as digital services grow easier to operate. Interfaces require fewer steps, but the processes behind them involve increasingly complicated systems, decisions, and responsibilities. The question is whether technology is eliminating complexity or simply moving it somewhere users cannot see.
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When AI Attacks at Machine Speed, Configuration Management Becomes Cybersecurity

Oct 16, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
The Australian Medicare AI agent incident highlights a broader shift in cybersecurity. AI does not need to create new vulnerabilities to increase risk. Its ability to continuously discover, test, and pursue existing weaknesses places greater emphasis on maintaining secure configurations over time, not just fixing issues once. Security teams are used to the idea that determined attackers will keep looking for a way in.
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Automate Configuration Management and Drift Remediation at Scale

Oct 16, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Learn how Puppet Enterprise by Perforce automates configuration management, enforces desired state, and enables automatic drift remediation across Windows servers at scale. In this demo, Matthew, Associate Sales Engineer at Puppet, shows how to use Puppet Enterprise to deploy and manage Windows registry configurations across multiple servers from a single console. See how infrastructure as code helps eliminate manual configuration tasks, reduce human error, and maintain consistent system configurations across your environment.
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