Recent findings from heise online have raised serious concerns about a large number of aging Western Digital hard drives, especially from the Blue, Red, and Purple series. These models use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology — a method that increases storage capacity by overlapping data tracks like roof tiles.

The shift to cloud computing has transformed the way enterprises build and scale their IT infrastructure. But with this transformation comes a new challenge: maintaining security and visibility across environments that span on-premise networks, public clouds, and everything in between.