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The Importance of Penetration Testing in Compliance with Cybersecurity

The Importance of Penetration Testing in Compliance with Cybersecurity

Nov 4, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Penetration testing has been an indispensable aspect of the contemporary security practices in cybersecurity. It is also referred to as ethical hacking and consists of its representatives simulating actual cyberattacks on systems of a company in order to discover its vulnerabilities before bad-actors. In the case of organizations dealing with sensitive information or functioning with regulated industries, penetration testing is not only a good concept but in most cases is the law.
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manageengine

How IT teams can finally break free from manual AD management

Nov 3, 2025 By Thamizh Poonkuil Mozhi M In ManageEngine
If there’s one thing every IT leader can agree on, it’s this: Manual Active Directory (AD) management never ends. There’s always one more access request, one more approval chain, and one more audit reminder flashing on your screen. By the time you’ve closed your last ticket of the day, there’s already another one waiting. For many teams, 2025 became the year of “we’ll automate next quarter.” But next quarter came and went without any automation.
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devart

New Devart Python Connectors Add Broader Compatibility and Stronger Security

Nov 3, 2025 By DAC Team In Devart
We are thrilled to announce a major update to our Python Connectors line. The release adds support for Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MySQL 9, and MariaDB 12, introduces modern authentication and security options, and delivers notable performance gains across several connectors.
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digitate

AI Agent for Proactive Problem Management: A Shift Toward a Ticketless Future

Nov 3, 2025 By Sayali Pagrut In Digitate
As organizations rely on increasingly complex IT infrastructures, incident management often turns into a constant cycle of alerts, escalations, and fixes. While reactive responses may keep operations running, they rarely address the deeper systemic issues that slowly erode performance. Recurring incidents, silent failures, and hidden patterns are usually symptoms of unresolved root causes that traditional approaches struggle to uncover.
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Ready for Windows 11? #sysadmin #win10

Nov 3, 2025 By Alloy Software In Alloy Software
Windows 10 support already ended, but you are still running unsupported devices? AlloyScan shows which devices in your fleet are ready for Windows 11, and which need attention — missing TPM 2.0, incompatible CPU, or other requirements — all in seconds! Perfect for sysadmins who need clear, actionable insights to plan upgrades or replacements efficiently and avoid guesswork. Windows 11 migration readiness check and other great features arrived in AlloyScan this October.
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harness

Intent-Driven Assertions are Redefining How We Test Software

Nov 3, 2025 By Shibam Dhar In Harness
Traditional UI testing struggles to keep up with rapid design and workflow changes, often focusing on brittle selectors rather than user outcomes. Harness AI Test Automation introduces intent-driven, natural language assertions that understand what teams want to verify, not just how tests are written.
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Embracing failure and chaos to improve system reliability and SRE team performance

Nov 3, 2025 By Elastic In Elastic
In this interview with Alex Hidalgo, Field CTO at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives (O’Reilly Media), we explore how traditional metrics like MTTR and MTTx can give a false sense of reliability. Alex shares how SRE teams can embrace failure, build psychological safety, and design systems that reflect the human factor behind uptime, outages, and real-world reliability.
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graylog

Gobbling Up Insights: Graylog 7.0 Serves Up a Feast

Nov 3, 2025 By The Graylog Product Team In Graylog
A feast of new features. A cornucopia of new capabilities. A banquet of breakthroughs (and the T-day puns are just getting started). Graylog 7.0 brings a full plate of advancements that help security teams cut through noise, control cloud costs, and respond with confidence. We’re serving practical improvements across dashboards, automation, and AI support so analysts can focus on action instead of manual effort.
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redgate

Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 1 of Many

Nov 3, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
Like many of you, over the last couple of years, I’ve been using AI, or, well, let’s just name it appropriately, Large Language Models (LLM), as a part of my job. I’ve also used it in my hobby. With it, I’ve generated snippets of code, tested data conversions, even built a small database for a presentation. However, to date, I haven’t tried doing everything through the LLM. Now, I’m going to.
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