Drift Management: Why It Matters, Who Needs It, and How to Get It Right
IT environments rarely break because of one big dramatic event. More often, they erode slowly: a configuration flag quietly flipped, a firewall rule added “just for testing,” a VM resized without documentation, a registry key tweaked by an engineer in a hurry. Individually harmless. Cumulatively fatal. That creeping erosion is configuration drift—and left unmanaged, it undermines security, stability, auditability, and engineer sanity. This blog outlines what drift management is, why organisations benefit from it, and what you actually need to implement it effectively. 1. [...]
