The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.
Managing over 1000 services and applications is daunting for any organization’s IT and Tech operations team. With a diverse mix of on-premises legacy systems and modern cloud stacks, the sheer volume of activity can overwhelm even the most skilled ITOps teams. The task is made more difficult by the fact that observability is fragmented. On average, organizations depend on 21 systems that produce metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for various services.
The 2020 pandemic has definitely changed the way teams operate across the globe. Many of you may have already experienced moving from 100% office work to 100% remote work, and now that it has been almost three years since the pandemic started many of us have resorted to hybrid models. We at Squadcast value the importance of efficient communication, reaching the right people during a crisis, and the freedom to resolve critical incidents from anywhere, anytime. Keeping that in mind, we have made major improvements to our mobile app to help you effectively partake in Incident Response activities anytime from across the globe.
Cyberattack prevention involves proactive steps organizations take to protect their digital assets, networks, and systems from potential cyber threats. Preventive measures, such as a combination of best practices, policies, and technologies, are employed to identify and mitigate security breaches before they can cause significant damage.
People seem to struggle with the idea that there are no repeat incidents. It is very easy and natural to see two distinct outages, with nearly identical failure modes, impacting the same components, and with no significant action items as repeat incidents. However, when we look at the responses and their variations, we can find key distinctions that shows the incidents as related, but not identical.
BigPanda transforms millions of events into a small number of actionable alerts, no matter where they originate. How? Watch this video to learn more. The video shows how BigPanda allows you to normalize tag values across all tools, aiding event enrichment and correlation. The open integration manager then makes it easy to pre-process the event data helping to filter unwanted events from the feed. The filtering strips out duplicate and low-relevancy events and keeps them from cluttering up the console.
Amidst mounting pressure from macroeconomic headwinds, businesses must prepare for declining consumer spending, less investment, and tighter credit conditions to survive. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) play a valuable role in helping businesses to navigate upcoming economic downturns, from optimizing costs to providing scalable solutions.
