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Agent vs. Agentless Security: How Do They Stack Up for Secure Infrastructure Automation?

In today’s multi-cloud reality, we at Puppet see that perspectives about agent vs. agentless have changed as security needs have grown in complexity and urgency. Given the changes fact that different architecture models and supporting infrastructure (private & public cloud), the same viewpoint about the best way to keep a business secure is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution. In this blog, we’ll weigh the pros and cons of agent vs.
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Keeping up with European security and privacy compliance - the role of infrastructure and automation

The number of security and privacy-related regulations and compliance requirements in the UK and Europe continues to increase. The list reflects governments' growing concerns and emphasis on security and privacy, and for good reason. According to Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures, if cybercrimes were measured as a country, it would represent the third-largest global economy after the United States and China.

The Future of Configuration Management Software is Policy Enforcement

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.

Why You Should Avoid Windows Group Policy Management for CIS Compliance

Windows Group Policy Management is the default — but that doesn’t mean it’s the right fit for your organization when it comes to cybersecurity and compliance. In this blog, we’ll look specifically at the current standard for compliance through CIS benchmarks and offer up a new way to approach policy management without the default.

Get Started with Puppet: A Tutorial Guide for First-Timers

So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright – this short, easy Puppet tutorial will help you get started with Puppet Enterprise. This tutorial blog walks through the first few steps you'll need to take to get Puppet Enterprise up and running so you can start automating your organization's IT infrastructure.

DoD Compliance + DoD Configuration Management: How to Get Compliant with Less Effort

DoD compliance is a set of rules and expectations for IT cybersecurity in organizations that do business with the US Department of Defense (DoD). Discover everything you need to know about DoD compliance and DoD configuration management in this blog – plus how to manage DoD compliance better and faster with Puppet.

Platform Engineering Tools: 12 Types of Tools to Use in Your Platform

Platform engineering tools are the apps and services in an internal developer platform (IDP), like configuration management, provisioning, testing, automation, CI/CD, and more. Your actual IDP should comprise tools your team actually needs: Your choice of platform engineering tools matters because it defines what your dev team can do on their own.

What is Event-Driven Automation? Event-Driven Automation Programming Examples

Event-driven automation can turn repetitive, manual, daily tasks into something that you set and forget. It’s a great way to trigger automatic events and prevent human error. In this blog, we'll explore a few event-driven automation programming examples, from sending an email to a certain group of users when a file has been uploaded to a server to generating reports.

Managing Compliance: Tips + Strategies for Breaking the Vicious Scan-Fix-Drift Cycle

Managing compliance can seem like a losing game. It seems like you'll never be ahead – like you'll always be fixing drift after it happens, only for your configurations to inevitably slip again. Managing compliance becomes a vicious cycle of scanning to hunt down drift, fixing it as best you can, and waiting for it to happen again.