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Top tips: Your work laptop has a life after office hours

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, we’re taking a moment to talk about what goes on between you, your work laptop and the IT team once you log off for the day. You shut your laptop at the end of the workday. As far as you're concerned, work is over. But for your IT team, their work might just be getting started.
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The first short-lifespan TLS renewal wave is closer than it looks

If your organization runs anything on the public internet, a mandate that changes how often you renew TLS certificates is already in effect. In March 2026, the maximum validity of public TLS certificates dropped from 398 days to 200. What fewer teams have worked out is that the first certificates issued under the 200-day cap start expiring at the end of September. That makes this autumn the first real test of whether your renewal workflows are ready for what the next three years will ask of them.

Patch Reliability Score: Make patch deployment decisions with confidence

Every Patch Tuesday starts the same way: New patches become available, and administrators begin answering the question, Is this patch safe to deploy? That answer rarely comes from a single place. Most administrators read the vendor's knowledge base article, look for known issues, monitor community discussions, and wait for early deployment feedback before rolling the patch out across the organization.

Protecting data in the cloud: Risks, responsibilities, and best practices

Cloud storage feels like an ocean—vast, endless, and deeper than Everest is tall. While it feels like there is limitless space for your data, the reality is not so harmonious. It's truly a case of survival of the fittest. With the right policies and data protection practices in place, your data remains safe. If not, it could either be lost in the abyss as dark data or end up as the next meal of a great white.

Total visibility, total control: Inside DDI Central's IP address management tower

Managing IP addresses across a growing network means tracking a lot of moving parts at once, including: sites, clusters, subnets, VLANs, leases, and DNS records. Add in subnets imported from other tools, addresses that were assigned manually years ago, and the occasional reservation nobody remembers creating, and it's easy for even a well-run network to lose a clear picture of what's actually happening across its address space.

Beyond IP addresses: How DDI solutions power telco data center operations

There is a moment, somewhere between the third ring of a phone call connecting and the first frame of a video buffering, where an entire telco data center has already done its job. A device asked a question, Where do I belong, and what is my name here? And somewhere in a rack of servers, in less time than it takes to blink, the system gave the answer.

Shadow AI has officially entered the enterprise

AI tools have become a workplace staple, but their unsanctioned use has given rise to shadow AI. It refers to the untracked usage of any AI tools or applications without approval or overview of the information technology (IT) or security team. This is substantiated by the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) which shows how rapidly the shadow AI trend is growing.

DDI Central 6.3: Now with Windows Node Agent for agent-based server communication

DDI Central 6.2 introduced GSS-TSIG authentication for secure dynamic DNS updates, JIT user provisioning via LDAP and LDAPS, and native scavenging support for Windows AD-integrated and DDNS domains, giving network admins greater control over DNS updates, domain hygiene, and user access across their infrastructure. These new additions have addressed major pain points on how admins manage DNS security, authentication, and resources.