Security alerts never stop; they flood in, one after another. AI runs quietly in the background, sorting through a plethora of data, making snap decisions, and raising red flags when it finds anomalies. Unfortunately, somewhere else, bad actors are running similar algorithms, monitoring, probing, and learning. Efficiency (speed and scale) isn’t the danger, nor is the way security teams use these...

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Learn what Change Data Capture (CDC) is, how it works, and its role in real-time data replication, integration, and analytics for modern systems.

Data anonymization removes or encodes personally identifiable information in data sets, ensuring individuals described remain anonymous.

Data optimization transforms, restructures, and improves data for efficient processing, storage, and access.

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2025 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1139 as soon as coverage is completed.In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEsCVE-2025-21333The first of three Hyper-V vulnerabilities this month is a heap-based buffer overflow that leads to privilege escalation to SYSTEM. Microsoft has reported this...

Learn why data identification is an important first step in a sound data protection strategy, how it relates to data discovery, and more.

What makes a good capacity management tool? There are six major factors to consider when choosing a capacity management tool, and the right tool should account for all of them.

The market is saturated with tools to facilitate and automate DevOps. How do you choose which ones will be best for your team?

Self-healing networks can make your life easier, save you time (and your organization money), and help eliminate downtime through real-time monitoring and automation.

Learn how to cut your remediation time from hours to minutes thanks to a seamless interface between two Fortra products, Intermapper and Automate.

As your network grows in size and complexity, automation can free up network administrators from repetitive, manual tasks to focus on more strategic, fulfilling projects.

Looking for a capacity planning tool? Find out how to choose a tool that will be the most accurate.

It's a brave new world for IT. And it often seems impossible to predict future demand and guard against performance risks. You have mountains of data, scalable cloud infrastructures, and a complex web of IT environments. It's complicated, to say the least. And it's matched by skyrocketing consumer demand for and reliance on online services. Bottom line: outages are more dangerous to a company...