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What is VPN? The acronyms that could save your life

What is VPN? You know that in IT we absolutely love acronyms, right? Specifying and summing things up is our thing. Digital Video Disc? DVD. Central Processing Unit? CPU. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line? Yes, you guessed it right: ADSL. In fact, tell me a word, no matter how long… What the heck! let’s take one of the longest words, with no more and no less than 23 characters: electroencephalographer. Well, how would we find this word in a hypothetical technoglossary?

SaaSOps Lessons for IT Operations

Across the IT community, there is a buzz around the SaaSOps movement, and it has been consistently gaining momentum. As David Politis of BetterCloud describes it: “SaaSOps is a practice referring to how Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are managed and secured through centralized and automated operations (Ops), resulting in reduced friction, improved collaboration, and better employee experience”.

Best website load testing services

Website load testing services determine how websites deal with online traffic. Too often, people equate it with performance testing. However, load testing is just a type of website performance testing. Other types of performance testing include endurance testing, volume testing, scalability testing, spike testing, and stress testing. In website deployment, it is common that transactions may fail and systems crash. It is due to concurrent demands on the website and adjustment over resources.

The latest Nexthink Release is All About Proactive IT

The latest Nexthink release has rolled out, with a wide range of features to support the ongoing Nexthink mission – driving proactive, continuous management of digital employee experience across your entire estate. Our recent focus has been on building out virtualization support in the platform, continuing to enhance optimization of management workflows, and making employee engagement more powerful and accessible than ever before. Let’s take a deeper look at what’s new!

CI/CD Detection Engineering: Failing, Part 3

It was over a month ago that I promised we would tie together Splunk Security Content and the Splunk Attack Range to automatically test detections. Ultimately, using these projects together in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflow with CircleCI brings the rigors of software development to the SOC and truly treats 🛡detection as code. Well, I want to share how we have failed at achieving this goal.

The Best Ways to Make Your Business Agile During the Pandemic

Due to the situation with the pandemic, today companies try to forecast the future and formulate the best business strategy. How to plan business strategy development, if no one knows exactly what will happen tomorrow? Well, it's impossible to predict every little thing, but with the Agile approach in business, the company can adapt quickly to any changes.

Adopting a BYOD policy amid the COVID-19 era

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, even companies that had said no to BYOD have come to terms with it, as a fair share of remote work would not even be possible without such a policy. Pandemic or no pandemic, on-the-go data access has always enabled employees to get work done quickly and efficiently. It guarantees better communication with colleagues, improves customer service, and device familiarity brings employee satisfaction and increased productivity.