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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

How StatusIQ enhances the digital user experience for ManageEngine users

Picture this scenario: Your user is accessing a critical service online, and suddenly, they view an unresponsive webpage. The anxious user contacts the support desk multiple times via phone, email, and chat and gets frustrated when they do not receive clear communication. In such dire situations, organizations often fail to communicate with users about what is happening.

Jumpstart your self-healing IT with BigPanda and Ansible

Imagine a world where IT systems hum along, proactively detecting and resolving issues before they turn into full-blown outages. No frantic fire drills, no late-night heroics, just seamless self-healing powered by automation. It’s the siren song of self-healing IT systems, beckoning every enterprise ITOps team. Despite the allure of streamlined incident response workflows, many attempts at IT automation sink before they can swim.

NIST Incident Response Steps & Template | Blameless

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the framework to help businesses mitigate cybersecurity risks. The framework also protects networks and data, outlining best practices to inform decisions that save time and money. Creating a cybersecurity strategy that identifies, protects, detects, responds, and helps you recover from cybersecurity incidents is critical in the evolving threat landscape.

How to Comply With the SEC's New Cybersecurity Rule

On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduced new rules regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incidents. Public companies subject to reporting requirements must comply with the changes to avoid rescission and other monetary penalties, not to mention the risk of legal action and reputation damage. Here, we look at the two new cybersecurity rules and how your company can comply. ‍

Making incidents less painful with Kerim Satirli of HashiCorp & Lawrence Jones of incident.io

For a lot of teams, incident management can be a bit of a headache. It's stressful. It's not optimized. The whole process can feel like it's being held together with tape. Worst of all? Responders are the ones feeling the brunt of it. But in reality, your customers are, too. Think about it: But honestly, the situation doesn't even have to be so dire. Things can be, generally speaking, totally fine. But you recognize that there are some things that you can do to make incident response really shine at your organization.

MTBF MTTR MTTF MTTA - Your guide to incident response metrics

Even the most reliable and well-designed software systems experience failures. Tracking incident response metrics helps teams strengthen both organizational preparedness and system resilience by uncovering trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. In short, important metrics for incident management are: Understanding these metrics helps engineering leaders improve service uptime, meet SLAs, and align operational capacity.

What is alert fatigue?

Alert fatigue is a serious issue that affects numerous professions, e.g. in IT or healthcare. It can lead to neglecting critical events and delaying response times. Responders need to continuously monitor their systems and applications to avert possible downtime and keep operations running smoothly. However a high number of incoming alerts inundating these teams can make them less responsive. The ramifications of such disregard can severely affect the efficiency and dependability of response teams.

The Debrief: How we built a "game changing" AI assistant feature

Imagine an AI assistant that could automatically surface a whole host of useful incident response data points with just a prompt. Well, you won't need to imagine for much longer. That's exactly what we built in Assistant, one of our newest features powered by AI. In this episode, you'll hear from Charlie, the project lead for Assistant, to get a peek behind this game-changing product. You'll hear him chat about.

Site reliability truth bombs by Piyush Verma (CTO & Co-founder at Last9.io) #shorts #podcast

Dive into an in depth conversation on how software has now become the backbone of things and get access to extraordinary reliability nuggets with Piyush. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.