What the Black Hat NOC Taught Me About MCP & Agentic SOCs (Chapter 2 of 4)
The first time an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server felt real to me, it wasn’t because of a clean demo. It was because of the noise.
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SolarWinds Service Desk System Requirements and Compatibility Matrix
When you shortlist an IT service management (ITSM) solution or tool, one of the first questions from your architects, security reviewers, and procurement team is predictable: “Will this work in our environment without…
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Heavy Strategy 56: FU to the Followup
Taking your feedback and followup and discussing the questions you bring us. Zero Trust Defintions, Out of Band in Zero Trust, Johna and/or Greg is/are insufferable and re-evaluating the Tech…
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How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud
Instead of handling everything manually, AcmeCloud relies on SSO (Single Sign-On) for authentication and SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) for provisioning. SSO handles how users logged in, while SCIM…
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Upgrading Fedora with Zabbix and Ansible
Fedora is a global open source project and Linux distribution that provides a platform for innovation and collaboration. Its infrastructure is managed by a dedicated team of professionals and volunteers…
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Introducing in-context security findings for Kubernetes
Dynatrace is making Kubernetes® security faster to adopt, easier to understand, and actionable in real time. Dynatrace now embeds Kubernetes security findings directly into the Kubernetes app, giving developers and…
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The SRE Report 2026: Defensible Ns
You shouldn’t have to understand the care behind this report, unless it’s missing. For the past eight years, this research has focused on all things related to reliability and resilience….
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Scope Is Not a Phase
Before joining Lansweeper as Director of Product Strategy, I spent years in offensive cybersecurity, focusing on penetration testing, red teaming, and vulnerability management. You get to test a lot of…
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Datadog acquires Adaptive ML | Datadog
Off-the-shelf models are easy to deploy, but they are rarely enough to solve complex, domain-specific challenges in production. The key to sustained AI value is not in the models themselves…
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The High-Performance DBA: CPU Under Pressure, Part 1: How SQL Server Uses CPU
Ever been tempted to blame database CPU for every performance problem? If you’re trying to troubleshoot SQL Server performance and isolate high CPU usage, the instinct to blame CPU first…
