March 31, 2026 Newsletter

Failure in a data center is not a question of if, but of when.

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Are you ready for failure?

Most failures do not start with catastrophes. They start with ordinary decisions that seem harmless at the time. Those choices accumulate until the system is already under strain. When the data center finally fails, it can be catastrophic.

Ten ways to avoid a data center failure

Hardware fails, configurations drift, people make mistakes, and small issues cascade faster than expected. The only variable is timing.

News roundup

Cybersecurity News March 30, 2026

Critical Cisco firewall flaw, Claude prompt injection bug, Pay2Key ransomware return, leaked iPhone exploit kit, and rising voice phishing scams.

Editor's pick

10 cybersecurity fails that should never have happened

Some of the biggest cybersecurity failures were not sophisticated attacks. They were preventable mistakes, missed updates, and basic controls left unchecked. The damage came later.

In case you missed it

When Tribal Knowledge Becomes a Single Point of Failure

In nearly every enterprise IT environment, there exists a form of knowledge that can’t be found within documentation systems or configuration repositories, but rather in the heads of experienced engineers.

10 NTP mistakes that can take down your authentication stack

The Network Time Protocol is not background plumbing. It underpins Kerberos, certificate validation, token expiry, RADIUS, TACACS+, and log integrity. When time breaks, authentication breaks.

9 small configuration mistakes that can cause huge outages

The consequences of not having a robust, universally understood order of operations can be severe, ranging from prolonged downtime and lost revenue to reputational damage and compliance violations

Good systems do not rely on everything going right. They are built to keep going when something inevitably goes wrong. That is where preparation pays off.

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