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Paul Schnackenburg, working in the IT trenches every day as a 1-person SoC, looks at how the cybersecurity kill chain is evolving in the SaaS era, where identity is the new perimeter and attackers exploit cloud app integrations, SSO, and OAuth to gain and maintain access.
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By Tom Fenton
AI meets cost control. Tom Fenton looks at EtherInsights, which helps you slash Microsoft 365 & Azure bills with smart, AI-powered insights—built for SMBs & enterprises alike
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Cloud costs creeping higher than expected? Security risks keeping you up at night? You're not alone -- and you're not without options. In a cloud strategy summit today, cloud security expert Steven Smiley offered practical guidance to help organizations get ahead of both challenges and bring discipline to their cloud environments.
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By Tom Fenton
After examining and setting up Zabbix, a scalable, open-source monitoring solution designed to track the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, and cloud services, Tom Fenton cranks it up.
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One interesting highlight of a new hybrid work report is the continuing practice of "coffee badging," where employees clock in early just to swipe their ID badges before leaving the premises to work remotely.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously providing an overview of Zabbix, a scalable, open-source monitoring solution used to track the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, and cloud services, Tom Fenton walks you through the process of setting up Zabbix server.
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As AI powers both cyberattacks and defenses, the ability to spot subtle threats in vast digital noise is paramount. Leading the charge is AI's power to intelligently monitor behavior, establishing baselines of normal activity to expose the aberrant patterns that signal attack.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his eye at VMware Explore, Tom Fenton begins a hands-on exploration of this free and open-source monitoring solution, describing its capabilities and features.
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Two GitHub developers directly compared models like Claude 3.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in Copilot's Ask, Edit, and Agent modes, demonstrating their strengths and weaknesses on real development challenges.
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By Tom Fenton
If you are not using a package manager on your Windows system to install applications and other software, you should, says Tom Fenton, because downloading, and installing applications manually is a waste of time.
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Our 1-person SOC from Down Under thinks Security Copilot is the new shiny for Microsoft and is worried they'll add so many features to it that they'll forget about those who can't afford it and who rely on non-Security Copilot features, thus missing out.
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Karen Lopez (@datachick) breaks down modern disaster recovery with a restore-first mindset, immutable storage, and dark data awareness.
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In today's crowded AI landscape, organizations looking to leverage AI models are faced with an overwhelming number of options. But how to choose?
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton tests MacStadium's remote macOS desktops and finds a smooth, high-performance experience -- despite Apple's virtualization hurdles.
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As organizations race to integrate AI agents into their cloud operations and business workflows, a new report from Cloudera highlights a crucial reality: while enthusiasm is high, major adoption barriers remain. Chief among them is the challenge of safeguarding sensitive data.
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By Tom Fenton
After writing about Orka Desktop, Tom Fenton turns his attention to the company behind it, MacStadium, and its other wares in the macOS virtualization landscape.
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The new 2025 edition of the Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft heralds a new AI-driven era where every worker, regardless of role or level, will manage AI agents.
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Veeam unveiled dual innovations to strengthen enterprise cyber resilience: an AI integration with Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to transform backup data into actionable intelligence, and Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID to safeguard identity systems.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explores using ChromeOS Flex as an OS replacement on a decade-old, dual-core laptop running Windows 10, as Windows 10 will soon reach its end of life (EOL).
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By Tom Fenton
Longtime IT pro Tom Fenton was disappointed -- along with many others -- when Broadcom discontinued the free version after acquiring VMware, but he's excited it's back.
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Just as GenAI becomes central to digital transformation strategies, a new Google Cloud report reveals most organizations aren't yet equipped to support it at scale.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton continues his investigation, loading the OS, using Gemini AI, Google Docs, the web-based Microsoft Office 365 and much more.
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Brien Posey, a well-known cybersecurity expert and 22-time Microsoft MVP, recently explained how enterprises can protect themselves against application security threats in hybrid cloud environments.
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The cloud giants have been outdoing one another in the race to offer the latest/greatest AI tech, marked by foundational models of ever-increasing capabilities. For the new Llama 4 "herd" of models from Meta, AWS, Microsoft and Google all announced same-day support -- on a Saturday.
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Since its launch last November, the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic has gone viral, generating buzz as a simple, standardized way to connect language models with tools and data. Now, Google has introduced another protocol to further agentic AI, called Agent2Agent (A2A), designed to facilitate communication among AI agents.