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🎄From Adaptavist, and all of us across The Adaptavist Group Wishing you a happy holiday season, some well-earned downtime, and a strong start to the year ahead. Thanks for being part of the journey, see you in 2026.

When a DDoS attack hits, every second counts. Traffic spikes. Systems strain. Visibility drops. And your team has one job. Keep everything online. That was the challenge facing an infrastructure support team protecting a high-traffic digital platform. Our latest case study shows how they used AWS WAF and rate limiting to gain control fast, stop malicious traffic and protect their services without slowing down legitimate users. 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/qPMa50XKn1j #Cybersecurity #Adaptavist #ITsecurity

We’ve seen how quickly work grinds to a halt when a SaaS vendor goes down. The PR that needed to merge? Stuck. The pipeline mid-release? Failed. The runbook for triage? Inaccessible. That’s why this guest blog from our partners at Rewind, focuses on a gap many teams still underestimate. Uptime SLAs promise restoration not productivity during the outage. The piece explores why security and engineering leaders are shifting towards productivity continuity, including: 🔸 capturing workflow state frequently 🔸 enabling rapid failover 🔸 preserving automation configs It also outlines the practical steps teams can take now to reduce the blast radius of their next outage. Read the full blog:https://ow.ly/FYwX50XLqtG #BusinessContinuity #DevSecOps #SaaSResilience #DisasterRecovery #CloudSecurity

Developer self-service sounds simple. In practice, it rarely is. In a recent ComputerWeekly.com article, Matt Saunders, VP of DevOps at Adaptavist shares why self-service internal developer portal initiatives often stall and what organisations need to get right for them to succeed. The article looks at the realities behind improving software developers' experience with self-service platforms. Success lies in clear ownership, strong platform teams, curated tools, cultural alignment and the need to enable developers properly, rather than just giving access to tools. A clear view on why self-service is about more than portals and automation, and why success depends on how it's designed, adopted and supported. 🔗 Read the full article: https://ow.ly/GrCJ50XKqvY #Developerexperience #Devops #Digitaltransformation

AWS re:Invent 2025 just wrapped, and one thing was impossible to ignore. AI wasn’t a theme this year, it dominated every conversation. With numerous new innovations announced, including AI Factories for secure, compliant innovation, to next-gen Trn3 UltraServers offering 4x more compute, and the new DevOps Agent designed to identify issues before they become incidents, the direction from AWS was clear. Smarter systems. Faster delivery. Stronger foundations. What does this mean for your business? We’ve broken down the key innovations and what they can do for you. 🔗 Read the full recap: https://lnkd.in/gXvzqFqv

Security pressure is rising for SaaS teams. So are the attacks targeting them. In our latest case study, we share how we helped a leading SaaS provider strengthen their application security posture with AWS WAF Managed Rules. From blocking common web exploits to improving visibility and reducing manual effort, the work gave their team the protection and control they needed to scale safely. 🔗 Read the full story: https://ow.ly/A6le50XGM4N #saassecurity #cloudsecurity #AWSWAF #saas

According to our latest research, knowledge workers now spend almost as much time in meetings as they do with friends: 4.3 hours vs 4.4 hours each week. One in ten loses a full day each week to meetings alone, that’s 50 days of meetings a year. When every day feels like a back-to-back meeting marathon, focus, motivation, and connection start to fade. Meetings shouldn’t dominate every working week for knowledge workers. Systems shouldn’t replace trust. It’s time to reclaim the hours and give work back its meaning. In our latest research report we are joined by trusted partners Atlassian, Easy Agile, Tempo Software, and more to share our insights on how organisations can rethink meeting culture and implement effective strategies for asynchronous working. 📊 Explore more insights in Adaptavist’s new report: https://ow.ly/Oirs50XFzqy

Great to see this conversation gaining traction. Technostress is a cultural challenge as much as a technical one, and it’s encouraging to see organisations like monday.com recognising the need for thoughtful implementation.

AI is not just changing work. It is changing how people feel at work. Technostress and rising AI anxiety are becoming clear signs that the challenge ahead is cultural, not technical. In fact, according to our recent research, 43% of workers say technostress leaves them feeling stressed and anxious, and over a quarter regularly feel overwhelmed by digital demands. People are navigating uncertainty, pressure, and expectations that shift faster than their support systems do. In a recent piece for The Well Crowd, Neal Riley, Innovation Lead, The Adaptavist Group, highlights how this anxiety stems less from the technology itself and more from how it is introduced, supported, and managed. When teams lack clarity and training, stress deepens. When change is handled poorly, it creates fear, confusion, and resistance long before it creates value. AI adoption will succeed when organisations focus on communication, trust, and psychological safety, the conditions that help people adapt with confidence rather than fear. Culture sets the pace. Technology follows it.

We’re pleased to share that Adaptavist is now an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) Delivery Partner. 🎉 This means that we can support customers in implementing AWS WAF to protect web applications from common exploits, improve security and create custom rules that block attack patterns. Interested in learning more about how we can support you with AWS? You can find details of our AWS solutions here: https://ow.ly/hAbs50XAxQH