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Deanna Darah of TechTarget wrote an interesting article: “Reasons to Build and Buy Network Automation Tools”. I agree with her that most organizations will end up with both – once they reach a mature state of network automation. But at BackBox, we recommend flipping the approach so that you buy and then build. A good …
Build and buy? Close, but no cigar. Instead, buy then build. Read More »
One of the powerful things about BackBox is our notification capabilities. Getting notified of interesting events, with rich notifications (I’ll describe what I mean by ‘rich’ with an example down below), makes for the ability to manage by exception. When you can trust an automation platform to tell you when things aren’t going the way …
Implementing automation under the umbrella of digital transformation is seen as a way to boost productivity, so why doesn’t everyone implement a network automation solution? That’s a good question (pats self on back)… and I think the answer isn’t only technical but also due to perspective. Digital Transformation If your company had a manual process …
What if you went to the store to buy a saucer for every cup you owned, only to realize that you don’t actually know how many cups you have? I can’t tell you how many times that’s happened with BackBox customers… but with network equipment not cups. They implement BackBox only to find that they …
Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM) is built specifically for network administrators and designed to help them prioritize OS updates based on actual, measured, risk to the organization. Updating devices sounds easy. Just update the software, right? Every vendor tool has that capability. It should be easy. It’s not. Partially because the quality of update tooling varies …
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is the gold standard of breach reporting being based on more than 16,000 security incidents and 5,200 breaches. There are two things that jumped out at me: the security costs of human error and the size of companies being targeted (getting smaller). The Security Costs of Human Error the …
The second question I often hear (after “what is automation?”) is “why automate?” At first when I’d hear this, I found it confusing. In my mind automating things is better than doing them manually. But, that’s not necessarily conventional wisdom. Many people need “facts not feelings”. Here’s are 10 reasons to automate network administration, broken …
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What is your automation strategy? Do you prefer a no/low code approach where the right toolset does the heavy lifting for you? Or have you built an all-star team of automation experts who spend their days buried in python and ansible? There are strong benefits and drawbacks to both of those so a blended approach …
BackBox prepares organizations for CIS Benchmark compliance with prebuilt network automations.
When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at …
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