Backup vs. Replication: Key Differences Explained

When your application crashes or a region goes offline, the difference between backup and replication determines whether you’re back online in minutes or scrambling for days. Most IT teams confuse these two strategies, but they solve different problems. Backup creates point-in-time copies of your data for recovery after corruption or deletion. Replication maintains synchronized copies across systems for high availability and failover.

Risk, Reward, and Reality: How to Decide the Right Amount to Invest in Crypto

Entering the world of crypto can feel exhilarating. Stories of rapid gains and high-profile success can make even cautious investors consider dipping their toes into digital assets. Yet, alongside the potential for reward comes significant risk. Understanding how much to invest in crypto is less about chasing opportunity and more about aligning investments with your financial reality, goals, and tolerance for volatility.

The Security Blind Spots Most Operators Miss - According to Igor Finkelshtein

In the cybersecurity world, it's easy to focus on the latest breach or high-profile vulnerability. But according to multi-industry operator Igor Finkelshtein, most security incidents don't begin with sophisticated attacks - they begin with overlooked operational weaknesses. From transportation to real estate to SaaS platforms, Finkelshtein's experience shows that cybersecurity is ultimately an operational discipline. The vulnerabilities that quietly accumulate inside a business often pose a greater risk than anything happening outside it.

Introducing DDI Central 5.6: Anomaly-aware, forecast-driven, monitoring-powered, Cisco-Smart DDI for modern networks

When we shipped DDI Central 5.5, we brought STIX/TAXII-powered threat intelligence into your DDI stack—enabling you to detect and respond to known threats in real time, using globally curated indicators of compromise. That release turned DNS and DHCP into active players in enterprise security.

How to Configure and Manage miniOrange 2FA for Bitbucket | Admin & User Setup

This tutorial provides a complete walkthrough of configuring and managing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in the miniOrange 2FA app for Bitbucket. Learn how admins can enable and enforce 2FA methods across users and groups, and see how end users complete their 2FA setup during login. Strengthen your Bitbucket security with an additional authentication layer and protect your instance from unauthorized access.

How 2025 Reshaped SOCs and What Matters in 2026

Security teams spent 2025 operating at maximum load. Alert volume kept rising, analysts pivoted across too many tools, AI arrived faster than governance could support, and cloud costs shaped what data teams felt safe keeping. In this episode of Logs and Lattes, host Palmer Wallace and Jeff Darrington break down what actually happened inside real SOCs and how those lessons are already guiding 2026.

Report: Phishing Has Surged 400% Year-Over-Year

Researchers at SpyCloud have observed a 400% year-over-year increase in successful phishing attacks, with a disproportionate number of attacks targeting corporate accounts. “The company tracked a 400% year-over-year increase in successfully phished identities, with nearly 40% of the 28+ million recaptured phished records containing a business email address – compared to just 11.5% in recaptured malware data,” the researchers write.

How Insurity Cut Manual Security Work by 81%

95 hours back. Every. Single. Month. One of the many outcomes from our ZTA journey with Insurity. They didn’t just deploy Zero Trust — they operationalized it. Reach unified controls, automated remediation, and eliminated the manual effort slowing progress. Results:︎ 81% less manual work︎ 95 hours saved per employee per month︎ Months → days for rollout︎ Zero Trust that sticks.