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Infra Assistant in Puppet: Talk to Your Infrastructure with Natural Language

Jun 18, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Improve productivity and get critical insights faster — no Puppet experience required. Infra Assistant is a natural language interface for interacting with Puppet data and services, saving time and making critical insights available faster than ever. Powered by Perforce Intelligence, Infra Assistant helps teams increase efficiency, reduce manual effort, eliminate bottlenecks, and unlock the goldmine of data on your infrastructure — all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance.
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Open Source Automation Tools: Popular Options & How to Choose the Right One for Your Needs

Jun 9, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
When looking at the broad landscape of IT automation tools, you’ll find dozens (if not hundreds) of tools that seem like viable solutions to your automation needs. Almost all of those tools can be broken down into two categories: Open source automation tools and commercial automation tools. (Open source automation tools with a commercial offering are still considered open source, even if the commercial edition has a price tag.)
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System Hardening Explained: Types, Techniques, Examples & Mistakes to Know

Jun 2, 2025 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
The broad umbrella of today's IT security includes standards, tools, technologies, and human practices that reduce risk and protect your systems. System hardening is one conceptual catch-all for those components of IT security — but what does system hardening mean in relation to your actual day-to-day operations? And how do you achieve system hardening without burdening your whole team?
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Securing the Software Supply Chain: Why It's More Important than Ever

May 12, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
The software supply chain has become the backbone of modern IT environments. It powers applications, underpins operational processes, and drives innovation within organizations across industries. Securing the software supply chain has moved from a peripheral concern to a central element of cybersecurity: The vast network of code, dependencies, integrations, and third-party tools that comprise the supply chain is increasingly under siege from cyber threats and at risk of exploitation.
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Why Patching is Important: The Risks of Ignoring It & How to Stay Ahead of Patch Management This Year

May 6, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Let's face it: no one likes patching. For some IT ops teams, it's such a burden that it's easy to forget why patching is important. Lots of teams put off patching until it's deemed absolutely necessary, like a vital app update or a piece of critical software going EOL. We all know ignoring patches, or letting them pile up, is a bad practice. Read this blog to remind yourself why patching is crucial, what can happen if you don't patch, and how to stop putting it off.
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Vulnerability Remediation: Automate VR Workflows with Puppet

Apr 23, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Secure and resilient infrastructure is non-negotiable. Puppet Enterprise Advanced automates critical tasks like patching, configuration management, and compliance, strengthening your security posture and bridging the gap between security and operations. Deploy essential updates quickly, minimizing threats and maximizing efficiency.
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Why Puppet Vulnerability Remediation is a Game-Changer for Enterprise Infrastructure Ops

Apr 22, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Effective vulnerability management has become a growing priority for organizations. Aided in part by AI, threats and vulnerabilities grow in speed and sophistication while IT environments become more complex. The skill gap for cybersecurity keeps widening (further worsened by a sprawling toolkit), exposing critical systems to exploitation. Managing secure infrastructure manually just isn’t possible at the scale and speed today’s enterprises demand.
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How DevSecOps Automation Should (and Will) Change Your DevOps Security Practices in 2025

Apr 2, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Learn how to use automation to combat this year's emerging DevSecOps trends. The dream of DevSecOps has always been resilience. To focus on proactive strategies rather than reactive firefighting; to learn from failures and build something stronger and more flexible in their wake. DevSecOps adoption may have grown, but implementation remains uneven: Many teams struggle to align their security and development workflows into a cohesive system.
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Puppet's Strong Performance in The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024 & What It Means for Your Enterprise

Mar 13, 2025 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
Technology's moving incredibly quickly. Automation has shifted from being an optional benefit to a core requirement for businesses aiming to optimize operations, increase efficiency, strengthen security, and maintain regulatory compliance across international markets. At the center of this change is infrastructure automation. To understand which vendors are leading in this area, resources like The Forrester Wave provide valuable comparative analysis.
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