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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 […]
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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
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BackBox prepares organizations for CIS Benchmark compliance with prebuilt network automations.
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A lot of our customers share similar stories, and we have the benefit of the point of view from both service providers and enterprises. We also are an MSP customer. And while that’s a single point of view, with a single service provider, it’s also provides added insight into the struggles facing MSPs and MSSPs in
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This was originally published by the Tao of Backup in 1997, and looks like it hasn’t been updated in over 13.5 years (judging by the Backup Wailing Wall). It’s also really focused on data, and I thought it would be useful to write a version focused on network and security devices (while also making sure
Our CTO, Josh Stephens, was quoted in Enterprise Security Tech with thoughts about the recent Microsoft network outage. One of my favorite news-taglines from the outage came from Richi Jennings at DevOps.com: Analysis: It’s DNS. It’s always DNS (unless it’s BGP) Without more details about what happened, which Microsoft has promised to share, it’s hard
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We’ve become numb to the costs of cybersecurity breaches. Almost every week there is a new breach reported in the news, it’s beginning to feel impossible to stop them. Something important is changing that you must plan for… Insurance companies that help pick up the pieces are forming an opinion about how businesses should be
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The US Cyber Information Security Agency in ST18-001 warns that Network infrastructure devices are often easy targets for attackers. Among the steps they point to for keeping infrastructure secure, they suggest that network infrastructure device’s OS be kept up to date because patches often contain security vulnerability fixes. In contrast to this, many teams we
I was listening to Ben Thompson’s interview with Satya Nadella the other day and something Satya said jumped out at me: Microsoft helps you do more with less Maybe it was Office 365 that helps you do that, or Teams (with it’s outstanding integration to Office 365 relative to competitors)? But the point is, it
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