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View on sreweekly.com Security and SRE: How Datadog’s combined approach aims to tackle security and reliability challenges Datadog has fully merged their SRE and Security teams. In this post, we’ll look at essential elements of SRE and security, the benefits we’ve realized by combining the two disciplines, and what that approach looks like for us.   Bianca Lankford — Datadog What I Really Mean When I Say “Good Communication” in Incident Response I love the way this article describes three different audiences for your communication during incidents. It describes what each audience is looking for and gives both positive and negative examples of how to communicate with them. ...

New threats emerge every week, and many vendors respond with narrow, reactive solutions. The result? Tool sprawl. Some organizations now rely on anywhere from 45 to 83 separate cybersecurity tools. This fragmented approach drives up costs, complicates workflows, and increases risk due to poor integration and limited visibility. Business leaders are taking notice: 50% of CISOs want to consolidate their security tools 75% of organizations aim to reduce their number of security vendors 65% say consolidation would improve their overall risk posture The message is clear: it’s time to shift from being reactive to a more unified, strategic approach to cybersecurity. ...

AWS Guide to Cloud Architecture Diagrams (Sponsored)Enhance visibility into your cloud architecture with expert insights from AWS + Datadog. In this ebook, AWS Solutions Architects Jason Mimick and James Wenzel guide you through best practices for creating professional and impactful diagrams. Get the ebook This week’s system design refresher: ...

For the third consecutive year, Gartner has named Cloudflare in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report. This analyst evaluation helps security and network leaders make informed choices about their long-term partners in digital transformation. We are excited to share that Cloudflare is one of only nine vendors recognized in this year’s report. You can read more about our position in the report here. What’s more exciting is that we’re just getting started. Since 2018, starting with our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) service Cloudflare Access, we’ve continued to push the boundaries of how quickly we can build and deliver a mature SSE platform. In that time, we’ve released multiple products each year, delivering hundreds of features across our platform. That’s not possible without our customers. Today, tens of thousands of customers have chosen to connect and protect their people, devices, applications, networks, and data with Cloudflare. They tell us our platform is faster and easier to deploy and provides a more consistent and reliable user experience, all on a more agile architecture for longer term modernization. We’ve made a commitment to those customers to continue to deliver innovative solutions with the velocity and resilience they have come to expect from us. If you want to join them on this journey today, contact us to discuss your own SSE journey. ...

We’ve got a three-day weekend coming up here in the States, and it’s at the right time. I’m spent and looking forward to some sunshine and downtime. See you back at the Reading List on Tuesday! [article] Google’s AI Vision: Make Tech Human Again. What a thoughtful writeup. I hope our vision for things turns into the reality. [blog] Now’s a great time to rediscover PaaS. Platforms are in vogue, as they should be. I’m not sure Cloud Foundry is the right bet in 2025, but Coté makes a good case. ...

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