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Security and risk often run on divergent tracks. Security programs pursue control maturity, while risk teams focus on business impact. This misalignment weakens outcomes. The flawed assumption that more controls automatically reduce risk has led to overbuilt oversight systems without proportional risk reduction. As digital ecosystems expand, organizations can no longer afford to treat cybersecurity as an isolated function.

For years, network operations have relied on complex query languages that demand specialized knowledge. Extracting insights from network data often meant writing intricate commands in formats like SQL, a skill reserved for seasoned IT professionals. But what if anyone, regardless of expertise, could ask a simple question and get immediate, accurate answers from their network?

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The product provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.

For today’s enterprises, ensuring optimized network connectivity and robust network security represent key imperatives. Given that, it makes sense that there’s rapidly growing use of solutions like secure access service edge (SASE). In fact, the SASE market is expected to grow to $5.9 billion by 2028. SASE delivers converged network and security capabilities. SASE is a cloud-based offering that is primarily delivered on an as-a-service basis.

In April I worked on a behind the scenes refactor, webhooks for status pages, a new endpoint, and more.

This article introduces the key components of VictoriaMetrics and explains how they work together as part of a complete monitoring system. VictoriaMetrics is a top-tier monitoring solution known for its speed and low-resource consumption. It includes components for monitoring, alerting, data visualization, querying, scraping, incremental backups, and more.

One might think that, considering how effective some companies are at logging everything we do to serve us ads, they’d at least apply that to help us understand what’s happening on our systems and monitor their performance and security. But in the case of Windows, traditional logs fall short — and that’s where the importance of Sysmon comes in. Sysmon is a Windows service that logs operating system activity into the event log.

You spin up a few test environments. Someone forgets to shut one down. A cost spike hits your Azure bill. And no one saw it coming. Does this sound familiar? Surprise cloud bills are still a thing today. For teams trying to balance innovation with financial discipline, the Azure Budget feature offers a first line of defence against surprise cloud costs.

Checkmk launched Checkmk Cloud (SaaS) in February 2025, which is a fully managed, cloud-based version of their monitoring technology. This solution, designed for ease of use, allows enterprises to start monitoring their IT infrastructure with no installation, maintenance, or manual upgrades required. The SaaS version is compatible with both cloud-based and on-premises systems, bringing them together under a single, straightforward platform.

Take our maturity quiz today and see where your automation maturity stacks up! Let’s call a spade a spade: Automation isn’t just a “nice to have” anymore. Automation is business-critical for speed, scalability, and resilience. It’s a mechanism of survival in today’s hyper-modern state of business. But the reality is that not every team is on the same page when it comes to automation.