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As the meaning goes , automation is automatic . Once begun , it is difficult to intercept the cascading changes across systems and its speed is impossible to stop .
Lori MacVittie , Distinguished Engineer at F5
Just like the ancient well , today a single script can affect thousands of systems within minutes , unlike years ago when it should have taken days or weeks .
Automation is a force multiplier allowing operations of all kinds to scale in ways that human beings could never achieve . It is the cornerstone of scaling processes , practices , and business . It is always said that an organisation cannot become a digital business without automation as it is one of the six key capabilities organisations need to successfully capitalise on data , adopt Site Reliability Engineering ( SRE ) operations and
Several instances of automation propagating unintended changes have impacted large swathes of the Internet as a bad parameter pushed into a script is almost impossible to recall . So , the well becomes poisoned once the enter button is pushed or when the API endpoint is invoked .
Also , threats of human error and the security of IT automation are overlooked attack vectors that can eventually be exploited even if it takes a decade . According to the latest Uptime Institute research , ‘ nearly 40 % of organisations have suffered a major outage caused by human error over the past three years .’ This is where AI and Machine Learning ( ML ) get involved .
The use of Machine Learning to protect IT automation
Machine Learning is adept at uncovering patterns and relationships between data points . Today , most industries use Machine Learning to solve security and
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