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Total visibility, total control: Inside DDI Central's IP address management tower

Managing IP addresses across a growing network means tracking a lot of moving parts at once, including: sites, clusters, subnets, VLANs, leases, and DNS records. Add in subnets imported from other tools, addresses that were assigned manually years ago, and the occasional reservation nobody remembers creating, and it's easy for even a well-run network to lose a clear picture of what's actually happening across its address space.

Episode 32: Building secure systems, not convenient ones ft. Mohammed M Alani

Cybersecurity research is advancing faster than ever but why do so many great ideas never make it into practice? In this episode of Server Room, we sit down with Mohammed M. Alani, Professor of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology – Dubai, to explore the gap between academic research and real-world cybersecurity. We discuss how research shapes modern security, why industry and academia often struggle to work together, the role of AI in cybersecurity, and what it will take to build truly secure systems for the future.

Beyond IP addresses: How DDI solutions power telco data center operations

There is a moment, somewhere between the third ring of a phone call connecting and the first frame of a video buffering, where an entire telco data center has already done its job. A device asked a question, Where do I belong, and what is my name here? And somewhere in a rack of servers, in less time than it takes to blink, the system gave the answer.

How to manage browser extensions across all clients | ManageEngine MSP Central

Browser extensions are one of the most underestimated security gaps in your clients' environments, and most of them were never approved by your MSP team. In this tutorial, we walk through browser extension management in MSP Central: how to block unauthorized add-ons, restrict dangerous permissions like desktop capture, manage native messaging, and pin approved extensions—all from a single console and enforced automatically across every client.

Shadow AI has officially entered the enterprise

AI tools have become a workplace staple, but their unsanctioned use has given rise to shadow AI. It refers to the untracked usage of any AI tools or applications without approval or overview of the information technology (IT) or security team. This is substantiated by the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) which shows how rapidly the shadow AI trend is growing.

DDI Central 6.3: Now with Windows Node Agent for agent-based server communication

DDI Central 6.2 introduced GSS-TSIG authentication for secure dynamic DNS updates, JIT user provisioning via LDAP and LDAPS, and native scavenging support for Windows AD-integrated and DDNS domains, giving network admins greater control over DNS updates, domain hygiene, and user access across their infrastructure. These new additions have addressed major pain points on how admins manage DNS security, authentication, and resources.