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What Is the Role of an Incident Commander?

For most businesses, managing major incidents can be intimidating. With a swarm of information coming from different directions, keeping things organized and maintaining clear, effective communication is tough. It only gets worse when there's no defined process to follow. This disorganization confuses everyone, delays responses, and increases the incident escalation rate. Enter the incident commander (IC).

Best One To One Plus Alternatives for K-12 in 2023

One to One Plus is a cloud-based, all-in-one software solution, tailored specifically to K-12 institutions. They provide a comprehensive suite of integrated IT asset management (ITAM), help desk software, and inventory management. As they describe on their website, they are “designed for K-12, built by K-12,” and appear to have been started by tech directors working in K12.

Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming system that has grown in popularity and usage across the technology industry. Originating from LinkedIn and now part of the Apache Software Foundation, Kafka provides a robust and scalable platform. It’s uniquely designed with an architecture that includes both a storage layer and a compute layer.

International Inconsistencies: How Cybersecurity Preparedness Varies Across Countries

Part three of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: An organization’s culture and training programs have a significant influence on security preparedness, but our research shows both are inconsistent at the country-to-country level. As we’ve seen in the previous posts in this series, employee demographics and their willingness to report security risks are hidden threats to your cybersecurity posture.

Red Flag Reluctance: The Risk to Cybersecurity

Part two of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: Keeping an organization safe means getting near-real-time information about security incidents or breaches. But new research shows some employees are less inclined than others to report red flags, which puts your business at risk. Will your employees get in touch quickly if they have a security concern?

Which Gen Is Most Tech-Savvy? A Workforce Dilemma

Part one of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: According to new cybersecurity research by Ivanti, the employees who are the most tech-savvy aren’t necessarily the ones we’d presume, demographically speaking. Why is that? And what are the issues it creates for an enterprise?

Zenbleed vulnerability fix for Ubuntu

On 24 July 2023, security researchers from Google’s Information Security Engineering team disclosed a hardware vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 family of microprocessors. They dubbed this vulnerability “Zenbleed” (CVE-2023-20593), evoking memories of previous vulnerabilities like HeartBleed and hinting at its possible impact.