When poor judgment takes the reins

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In heterogeneous environments, admins regularly face system maintenance challenges, but the right choice of distribution on a USB storage device keeps your toolbox in your pocket.

The StackStorm open source platform helps admins manage networks efficiently by automating repetitive tasks and responding to events in real time.

Checkmk offers a new open source monitoring implementation for network services.

An internal AI server is an interesting way to retain data sovereignty. We show you how to set up an in-house AI server on your hardware and use it in parallel with AI services such as ChatGPT in the cloud.

Microsoft recommends the use of snapshots both locally and for Azure VMs. We describe how to create snapshots in the Azure GUI and with PowerShell and how to protect your snapshots against unauthorized access.

The Kanister tool is an extensible open source framework for application-level data management and backups in Kubernetes.

We assess the effectiveness of SELinux in protecting AI model deployments on RHEL 9, demonstrating its ability to block unauthorized access, modification, and resource exploitation through mandatory access control.

Nmap and Nessus can help you search for vulnerabilities on Active Directory domain controllers and shut them down. We show you how to use Nmap scans, set up Nessus, and test a DC.