There were over 700 million attempted ransomware attacks in 2021 alone. Unfortunately, a new preferred target has be identified: managed service providers. Criminal hacker groups were spending more time focusing efforts on a strategy known as a “digital supply chain” attack to compromise both software and service providers and move up their supply chains through… Continue reading Four Best Practices to Ensure MSPs Meet Compliance Requirements
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Four Best Practices to Ensure MSPs Meet Compliance Requirements
IT workflow automations – to augment, accelerate and automate processes associated with incident response within ITOps or across ITOps, ITSM, DevOps, SecOps, and other systems – help eliminate manual, repetitive IT operations tasks and help free-up time to work on more strategic projects. When an IT workflow fails to function as intended, it creates, at… Continue reading The Case for Monitoring Your Automated Workflows
The Case for Monitoring Your Automated Workflows
Speaking of creating projects that scale, it’s time to read up on the latest about AIOps, ITOps, and IT infrastructure monitoring. 1.) The push is on to build an autonomous enterprise. This article by Business Telegraph analyzes how organizations are moving towards an autonomous enterprise. Enterprises are in the early phases of a revolution whose… Continue reading News Roundup June 17, 2022
News Roundup June 17, 2022
Today we will be doing a deep dive into policy compliance rules to really show the power and flexibility of that system within Restorepoint. Here is that simple security rule, just checking that the plain text string, Michael Bell did not occur anywhere in the config. You can do quite a bit more than that.… Continue reading Learn Effective Policy Compliance Management with Restorepoint
Learn Effective Policy Compliance Management with Restorepoint
The managed services provider (MSP) industry is in something of a renaissance. By some estimates, the MSP market was sized at $243 billion in 2021 and is forecast to grow by nearly 33%, reaching nearly $355 billion by 2026. That’s good news for firms in the business of providing managed IT and related services for… Continue reading Top 5 Reasons Why Network Compliance Should Be a Major Focus for MSPs
Top 5 Reasons Why Network Compliance Should Be a Major Focus for MSPs
But those traditional organizations, and other tech-focused enterprises, still need good IT people to run their technology estates up to expectations. Meanwhile, technical professionals—recognizing the opportunity—have poured fuel on this employment fire by leaving their previous jobs in favor of places and positions that offer a better work-life balance. The Great Resignation, as the employment… Continue reading Cisco Live Preview: Limiting Operational Disruptions with AIOps
Cisco Live Preview: Limiting Operational Disruptions with AIOps
What to Do When an Incorrect Change Is Made Today we’re going to look at ways to mitigate the impact of poor change management, or somebody accidentally making an incorrect change. What we have set up here is in the same environment. I have another policy rule that checks that all devices are only using… Continue reading Minimize MTTR to Mitigate Impact of Change Management
Minimize MTTR to Mitigate Impact of Change Management
1. AIOps in network management has expanded and evolved. This article by Forbes describes the evolution and expansion of AIOps in network management. Expected to be worth more than $40 billion by 2026, AIOps solutions are paving the way for improved IT operations. A major factor driving this is that traditional operations management models are… Continue reading News Roundup June 3, 2022
News Roundup June 3, 2022
You see a lab environment set up with Restorepoint managing the same set of Cisco devices synchronized between the two platforms, and Restorepoint is collecting configurations from those devices. On the Restorepoint side, we have set up a simple security policy. In a real production environment, you would use a policy like this to check… Continue reading See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach
See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach
Technology professionals, already in high demand before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, are in even shorter supply today thanks to the Great Resignation. This shortage of IT talent is exacerbating the difficulties associated with a number of top tech challenges organizations already face, as identified by EMA research, including: Lack of automation; Gaps in… Continue reading AIOps Means Business: IT Innovation for a Competitive Edge