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Reinventing the Incident Responder's Day: Empowering Tier 2 SOC Analysts with Splunk's Agentic SOC Platform

The Tier 2 SOC Analyst or the Incident Responder (often hailed as the "Sherlock Holmes of the network") faces an increasingly complex and relentless digital landscape. In a world where analysts are being overwhelmed by alerts, held back by fragmented, manual tooling and inefficient workflows, incident responders are charged with the critical task of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security threats.

Reimagining Artifact Management for DevSecOps: Harness Artifact Registry GA | Harness Blog

Today, Harness is announcing the General Availability of Artifact Registry, a milestone that marks more than a new product release. It represents a deliberate shift in how artifact management should work in secure software delivery. For years, teams have accepted a strange reality: you build in one system, deploy in another, and manage artifacts somewhere else entirely. CI/CD pipelines run in one place, artifacts live in a third-party registry, and security scans happen downstream.

Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 - Additional Cloud Support

SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor demonstrates the new cloud entity support features in Observability Self-Hosted version 2026.1. The update adds monitoring capabilities for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on Google Cloud Platform, GCP load balancers, Azure functions, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Lambda functions. She provides a guided walkthrough of the dashboard interface, showing how users can monitor various metrics including database performance, network traffic, latency, function execution counts, system usage, and costs across different cloud platforms.

The Evolution of Digital Employee Experience (DEX) | How IT Is Transforming the Workplace

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is transforming how IT teams support employees, improve productivity, and drive business outcomes. In this video, we explore the evolution of DEX—from traditional reactive IT support to proactive, experience-driven operations that empower both employees and organizations.

The Grafana Cloud identity blueprint: balancing security and scale

If you've ever rolled out Grafana Cloud to a growing engineering organization, this pattern may sound familiar: Everything feels simple at first. You invite a few teammates, give them access, and dashboards start appearing. Then the team grows. Then the number of stacks grows. Over time, a model that once felt fast and empowering starts to feel risky, difficult to understand, and even harder to undo. This post is about avoiding that moment.

Secure by Design : Defend against AI-driven threats

After several zero-day attacks on leading security vendors that left the industry reeling in 2024 and 2025, Ivanti redoubled our commitment to transparency, product development that prioritizes security and community awareness. The attacks galvanized our Secure by Design framework so that we could accelerate our transformation to kernel-level security — compressing a three-year roadmap into just 18 months.