Featured Articles

June 28, 2022

Runecast Behind-the-Scenes: Meet Katerina Huspeninova

Katerina, or ‘Katka’ as we call her, is a bright DIY sort, who can typically come up with a few different good solutions for any challenge – especially if that challenge concerns numbers or a spreadsheet.

June 27, 2022

Expanding your peace of mind with a further move into CNAPP

What does a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and Runecast have in common? More than you would think. With our upcoming release Runecast is making a bold step towards the future of cloud security.

June 17, 2022

We loved seeing you at RSA 2022

What a delight to be at RSA. It was a major commitment, but we feel that the return we got on our commitment was worth it.

June 2, 2022

CVE-2022-30190 MS RCE “Follina” Zero-Day Vulnerability

A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT).

June 1, 2022

Come and see us at RSA 2022 in San Francisco

In person events come with a buzz that virtual events haven’t managed to match. Whether that be the coffee, the conversations or the crowds, the Runecast team are excited to be heading back out on the road.

May 16, 2022

Anticipation and Simplicity – a New IT Framework for Success

At Runecast we are inspired to better ourselves and to better our product. There is no such thing as treading water, whether we’re talking about technology in general, or security and operations in particular. There’s only progression or regression. 

May 10, 2022

Meet the Runecast Team at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon!

Physical events are back and we’re delighted to be getting out of the house!

May 9, 2022

CISOs and CIOs: Three steps to better security

People say that the rewards of remote and dispersed working outweigh the risks. But if you’re a CIO or CISO, what can you do to ensure that’s the case?

May 4, 2022

Meet Vladan Seget, virtualisation expert

Vladan Seget is the man behind the very successful ESX Virtualization site. As a hands-on IT admin for 20 years, and an IT blogger since 2008, Vladan has a wealth of experience which he shares freely online.

April 21, 2022

MS April 2022 Patch Tues: 0-day vulnerabilities, CVEs, bugs

Microsoft has released updates to fix roughly 120 security vulnerabilities in its Windows Operating systems and other software for the April Patch Tuesday. From the CVEs addressed, two are ranked as important zero-days, including CVE-2022-24521, which is under active exploitation. 

April 20, 2022

CVE-2022-26809 MS-RPC Vulnerability Explained and Covered

On Tuesday, 12 April 2022, Microsoft released patches for CVE-2022-26809, reportedly a zero-click exploit targeting Microsoft RPC services. At the time of this publication, there is no proof of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. However, based on the rating that the exploitation is "more likely" we expect that this won't long be the case.

April 4, 2022

New vulnerability leaked by security researchers

When casting around for examples to describe log4j, internet security researchers and writers had to go back a few years to find other large vulnerabilities or outages.

March 22, 2022

Cloud Native: how to know if you’re strategic about it

We were excited to read it, as we welcome any attempt to try and open up the world of cloud computing, and some of the principles in this article are incredibly helpful when thinking about what cloud computing is and isn’t.

March 10, 2022

Runecast 6.1 brings IT teams confidence, clarity and speed

Our latest release, Runecast 6.1, introduces a UI overhaul for enhanced user experience, and a new feature called Organizations – addressing the need for separate spaces to monitor different environments within the same company departments or divisions. 

March 10, 2022

Runecast adds CISA KEV catalog for even more CVE coverage

CISA, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has released some helpful guidance for those in charge of security and operations.

March 4, 2022

Runecast Responds to CIO Dive on prioritizing IT projects

Today we wanted to talk about one article there in particular: The Water Cooler: How 5 executives prioritize IT projects. I’m sure you can see why it caught our attention. 

March 2, 2022

Runecast Behind-the-Scenes: Meet Yassine Hakimi

While we welcomed Yassine via slack with plenty of emojis when he joined us in summer of 2021, we wanted to get to know him a little more now that he’s settled in better.

February 16, 2022

VMSA-2022-0004 Explained & Covered

February 3, 2022

Runecast Behind-the-Scenes: Meet Michal Trneny

Mike was recently promoted to our Lead AI Engineer. Despite that, you’ll find that he considers himself a data scientist. Here is Mike in his own words…

January 25, 2022

CIOs don’t want Security & Ops teams playing whack-a-mole

January 19, 2022

Runecast Partner Network Honors 2021 Partner Award Winners

We want to share our 2021 highlights and honor our Partner Award winners.

January 14, 2022

Meet Michelle Goossens, teen VMware Certified Professional

You can hear about a lot of interesting things in the vCommunity (for us, mostly via Twitter and LinkedIn these days). From vLadies and vBeards to vExperts and VMUGs, there’s no lack of virtualization subcommunities to hold one’s attention.

January 5, 2022

VMSA-2022-0001 Explained & Covered

I’d love to spend loads of time catching up but we’re going to have to dive right in, because we’re here with our first VMware Security Advisory (VMSA) of the year.

December 15, 2021

The Next Big Thing: Proactive OS Analysis in Runecast 6.0

New proactive analysis of operating systems adds one more layer to Runecast’s proactive monitoring, management, and compliance – for full visibility into the state of your environment.

December 13, 2021

Runecast responds to Apache Log4j Java vulnerability

Over the weekend a critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j Java library (used by thousands of enterprise apps) was disclosed. A zero-day exploit was found in log4j2, a popular third-party library which many services include as a dependency.