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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.

The last few months have been wild. Some of the busiest of my life, actually: For context: I’m Canadian, and all of this happened during the continued threats of annexation. All this to say, it’s been rough. I anticipated this would be a challenging time and that I would be exhausted. So, the plan became: do all the demanding things, take my sabbatical in May, and use April as an ‘in-between’ period with a bit less pressure.

It’s 3:12 AM. Somewhere in a company’s global cloud infrastructure, a server cluster begins to show unusual read/write patterns. Traditionally, IT teams wouldn’t notice until dashboards light up with red alerts—often too late to avoid an outage that costs thousands, even millions, in lost revenue and trust. But this time, it’s different.

On the first of every month we generate an extensive PDF report for every site. This report contains a summary of all check results for the month and is a snapshot available to you and your team via email and the Oh Dear dashboard. We keep the report history so each month can be viewed in a browser or downloaded as a PDF. This report can also be emailed to any email address - not just team members - perfect for keeping your customers informed.

As we mark the last day of National Nurses Week in the U.S., Zebra’s Chief Nursing Information Officer and Healthcare Industry Principal, Kassaundra McKnight-Young offers an inspiring glimpse into the evolving role of technology in healthcare. Transitioning from over 31 years on the frontline, she remains dedicated to enhancing patient care by integrating innovative solutions that empower clinicians.

Several factors—including AI adoption, investor expectations, and the rise of a new generation of innovative upstart companies—have driven a renewed focus on efficiency in every industry. But organizations that attempt to improve operational efficiency and drive profits via layoffs and short-term cost-cutting often end up hurting the business in the long run.

There’s a problem in engineering culture that we don’t talk about enough: observability is an afterthought. It’s treated as tooling, not thinking. As a checkbox, not a habit. And that mindset gap creates real consequences: longer outages, frustrated teams and massive business costs. Atlassian’s Incident Management for High-Velocity Teams overview cites a 2014 study by Gartner, that the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute.