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AI Chief of Staff for Engineering Leaders

Meet Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff, your new strategic partner for engineering leadership. This isn’t just another dashboard. It’s an intelligent advisor that connects your engineering data, scorecards, and DORA metrics to give you real-time, actionable insights. What you'll learn in this video: Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff brings clarity and confidence to decision-making, helping leaders transform meetings into strategic, data-driven conversations that drive continuous improvement.

Bring incident response to AI stack with ilert's MCP Server

ilert’s engineering team has developed an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to securely interact with your alerting and incident management workflows, from determining who is on call to creating incidents. In this article, we provide a simple explanation of MCP, outline the reasons behind our investment in it, describe the high-level architecture, and explain how to connect Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients to ilert today.

Shadow AI on Trial: The Phantom Threat to Compliance

Every law firm I meet can explain its information security policy in minutes. Far fewer can tell me which AI tools their staff actually used last week, and what data those tools touched. That gap is where Shadow AI sits, such as unsanctioned, unmonitored use of generative AI slips in. It promises speed, but it quietly creates exposure: confidentiality breaches, weak auditability, and a risk to governance when the regulator (or a client’s GC) asks hard questions.

IT Inventory Management Software: 8 Options For 2026

IT Inventory Management software is essential for organizations because it automates and streamlines many of the tasks involved in managing IT assets. With so many options available, choosing the right one isn’t always easy. To help, we combined market research based on public data with our experience supporting hundreds of organizations in implementing InvGate Asset Management, our IT Asset Management solution.

Chargeback Vs. Showback: Choosing The Right Cost Allocation Model For FinOps

One of the most challenging aspects of running a SaaS business is dealing with highly variable costs. Every service you provide needs resources, and the demand for those resources fluctuates. Just when you think you’ve got this quarter’s budget nailed down, an engineer makes a restructuring decision or a new feature launch exceeds expectations (or falls flat). Suddenly, your bill looks totally different than what you were expecting.

Dropbox vs Google Drive: What is the Best Cloud Storage Service?

When you hear the words cloud storage, you usually think of Google Drive and Dropbox. Why? Because they are huge and old, and they spend millions (maybe billions) trying to ensure you never forget who they are. So, which one of the old tech nobility is better? Is Google Drive or Dropbox cheaper? Which one is the better option for you? Or is there a better and more private cloud sternative you could choose instead?

New Phish Kit Warning: Tykit's Evasion Tricks and What Analysts Should Do

A new phishing kit, Tykit, is rapidly spreading, using malicious SVG files to mimic Microsoft 365 login pages and steal corporate credentials. Linked to hundreds of compromised accounts across finance, IT, government, and telecom sectors, it shows how simple code tweaks can outsmart traditional defenses. ANY.RUN experts traced 180+ sandbox sessions revealing the kit's infrastructure and patterns, and how analysts can detect it within minutes where standard scanners see nothing.

How to Enhance Your Racing Game Experience

Most racers chase lap time, then wonder why the same mistakes repeat every session. The fix starts with comfort, repeatable controls, and settings that match your hardware. Small changes compound over a stint, saving energy and protecting focus across longer races. You do not need every latest gadget, but you do need the right build order. Start with a stable seat, a sturdy mount, and a proven racing simulator rig that keeps wheel and pedals locked in place.

How Digital Ads Boost Enrollment in Higher Education

Here's the harsh truth: your university is fighting an uphill battle. Enrollment's dropping. Competition? Brutal. And those old-school recruitment tactics you've relied on for years? They're barely moving the needle anymore. Think about it: prospective students aren't browsing college brochures these days. They're glued to their phones, scrolling TikTok, firing off Google searches, watching YouTube videos. They're making decisions about their entire future before they ever visit your campus physically.