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    Manufacturing: Building Resiliency to Navigate Market Volatility

    How Manufacturers Can Thrive in a Challenging Economy    Manufacturers have navigated a turbulent environment for several years. Some unlocked exponential growth opportunities due to surging demand while others struggled to stay afloat. Now, most manufacturers are bracing for a recession. In the U.S., 62% of manufacturers expect a recession to start in 2023,[1] anticipating several…

    Concurrency
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    OIDC vs. SAML

    When trying to set up authentication for an application, you might hear people talk about “OIDC” and “SAML”. This is especially true when you have a lot of different applications that you want the end user to be able to use the same username and password for; for example, inside of a business, you might…

    Nick Woods
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    Driving Efficiency from Cloud Investments

    Six Tests to Determine if Your Cloud Environment is Configured Properly I’m asked frequently, “how do I know if there is waste in my cloud environment” or “how do I know if my cloud environment is following best practices?”.  In response, I have six initial tests to evaluate the state of an already deployed cloud…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Using the Union Operator in KQL

    The union operator is a super handy organizational tool in the Kusto Query Language (KQL). It makes it possible to combine data from multiple tables to show the results in one space. Essentially it allows you to avoid running the same query multiple times if only a few parameters changed. In this example, we’re going…

    Joseph Dutton
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    A Holistic Approach to Zero Trust

    Zero Trust architecture isn’t another security fad, and it’s not a technology you can implement, but rather a security model that’s foundational on every step of the journey we at Concurrency help our clients in travel along the path of modern workplace maturity. Holistic Approach At its core, Zero Trust is based on 3 paradigms:…

    Chris Blackburn
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    10 Optimizations for Your Azure Environment – Part 2

    As we enter the new year, I’d like to challenge every company with an Azure environment to “do more with less” by raising the operational maturity of their cloud environment.  Successful companies look at the cloud as a financial advantage to their businesses because of the opportunity to apply optimizations across each spending area.  The…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    10 Optimizations for Your Azure Environment – Part 1

    As we enter the new year, I’d like to challenge every company with an Azure environment to “do more with less” by raising the operational maturity of their cloud environment.  Successful companies look at the cloud as a financial advantage to their businesses because of the opportunity to apply optimizations across each spending area.  The…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    KQL Query to track your higher cost Azure Sentinel Tables

    I cannot take full credit for this query, however, it is a super useful KQL query and it is as simple as copy and pasting into your environment. You’ll be able to see the exact table name, the table size, how many table entries, and what tables are billable vs. not. If you’re looking to…

    Joseph Dutton
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    Effects of Professional Gatekeeping

    Throughout this report, I want to discuss some common gatekeeping issues, and some negative effects caused by it. Although I have not been a personal subject to gatekeeping, I have witnessed it many times and have admittedly done it myself from time to time in fear of not being as valued. It is a hard…

    Joseph Dutton