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Audit-Ready Before the Holiday Rush: How Retail IT Teams Prevent Outages with Puppet

Oct 27, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
Every retail IT leader knows that a mix of anticipation, cautious relief, and low-grade paranoia the week before the holiday freeze. Change requests stack up. Teams push last-minute updates to servers, registers, and store systems. And somewhere across hundreds or thousands of locations, one system has drifted slightly out of compliance. Nobody notices until peak traffic arrives. Then a lane goes down, a register stops processing transactions, checkout slows, and revenue starts walking out the door.
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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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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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Manage Governance with Puppet Enterprise

Oct 6, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Learn how Puppet Enterprise helps organizations strengthen infrastructure governance through role-based access control, audit-ready reporting, and controlled change management workflows. In this demo, Senior Sales Engineer Nelson Gomez walks through key governance capabilities in Puppet Enterprise, including: Whether you're supporting security initiatives, audit requirements, or operational governance, Puppet Enterprise helps teams maintain control while accelerating infrastructure automation.
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The Infrastructure Question Hiding Inside Every Government AI Conversation

Sep 28, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
Government AI strategies are ultimately constrained or enabled by the infrastructure beneath them. Agencies that can continuously validate controls, maintain visibility, and automate policy enforcement will be better positioned to deliver AI capabilities securely, responsibly, and at scale.
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From SOCI Compliance to Continuous Infrastructure: How Puppet Helps Protect Critical Infrastructure

Sep 24, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
Australia’s critical infrastructure landscape has changed significantly. The Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) has evolved from a framework focused primarily on identifying critical assets and reporting incidents into a broader risk-management and operational-resilience regime. The 2024 reforms reinforced that direction, increasing the focus on the systems, data, and technology dependencies that underpin Australia’s essential services.
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What Chef Got Wrong. Fact-checking Their "Chef vs Puppet" Comparison Page

Sep 18, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
In November 2025, Progress Chef outlined their plans to deprecate Chef Infra Server; which will reach end of life effective November 30, 2026. For Infra Server users, this means you have an opportunity to evaluate your infrastructure solutions to make sure it meets enforces internal or regulatory compliance policies, lets you manage infra everywhere it lives today, and sets you on the right path for the future.
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5 Compliance Challenges Puppet Customers Are Solving Next

Aug 26, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
In conversations with customers, compliance rarely starts as a tooling discussion. It usually starts with a practical concern: how do we keep moving, keep modernizing, and still know that our infrastructure is aligned to the policies we are accountable for? That question comes up because the pressure is real. Teams are managing hybrid estates, responding to audit requests, dealing with drift, supporting new platforms, and being asked to move faster without creating more risk.
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Why Financial Services Teams Need Continuous Compliance Evidence

Aug 21, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
Financial services regulators increasingly expect organizations to demonstrate that controls operate continuously, not just on audit day. Yet many firms still rely on point-in-time reviews and manually assembled evidence, creating compliance gaps, operational overhead, and unnecessary risk exposure. Continuous configuration enforcement helps address both the regulatory and operational challenge by generating evidence as changes occur. Back to top.
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