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International travel comes with amazing sights, cultural experiences, and local delicacies. However, most travelers know that it comes with differing economies that impact a money’s value and various currencies. When people need cash, they have to translate the money in their wallets to the local currency, which means different coins and bills. Depending on the exchange rate, the currency’s value can change as the person moves from one country to another.

Two new features this week, both pushing in the same direction: make certificate lifetimes someone else’s problem.

Enterprise private cloud procurement tends to generate impressive security documentation. SOC 2 reports, penetration test summaries, ISO 27001 certificates, detailed descriptions of network segmentation and encryption standards. What it doesn't always generate is clarity on the question that actually matters: does this infrastructure make it possible to operate securely at the level your organization requires, given your specific workloads, your regulatory context, and your threat model?

Since the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4, organizations have been rapidly adopting Agentic AI to automate and enhance their workflows. Agentic AI refers to AI systems that act autonomously, perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking actions based on that information rather than just reacting to direct human input.

Harness Database DevOps integrates Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce database governance through policy as code. By embedding compliance rules directly into CI/CD pipelines, teams can automatically prevent risky database changes, maintain audit trails, and meet regulatory requirements without slowing down development. Database systems store some of the most sensitive data of an organization such as PII, financial records, and intellectual property, making strong database governance non-negotiable.

We’ve made several improvements to Single Sign-On (SSO) in StatusGator to make authentication easier to configure and easier to monitor. As a reminder the StatusGator dashboard includes SAML-based SSO on all plan tiers, even our free plan. This update introduces a simplified SSO setup flow along with a new Audit logs tab that provides visibility into authentication activity.

On May 21, 2019, LinkedIn’s URL shortener went down. The certificate had expired. Millions of people cried out in terror when they couldn’t click on AI link bait. The interesting part: LinkedIn had renewed the certificate ten days earlier. The renewal succeeded. The certificate just never made it to the server. The renewed cert existed somewhere, but the server still served the old one. Most certificate automation is built to prevent the “I forgot to renew” problem.