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Updated: May 28, 2026 Upd: 28.05.26

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Cisco Meraki Backup

Zack Bentolila

Zack Bentolila

Marketing Director

Cisco Meraki Backup

Modern companies depend on Cisco Meraki to keep offices, branches, retail locations, and distributed teams connected. From employee Wi-Fi and guest access to firewall rules, VLAN segmentation, site-to-site VPNs, and traffic shaping policies, Meraki controls the network configuration layer that keeps people, devices, and business-critical applications online.

But while cloud infrastructure and application data are often covered by disaster recovery plans, office and branch network configurations are still frequently changed manually, undocumented, or left outside formal recovery strategies. One deleted firewall rule, broken VLAN, misconfigured VPN, or incorrect traffic policy can disrupt employee access, disconnect locations, or impact critical operations.

ControlMonkey now supports Cisco Meraki Backup, helping teams automatically back up, track, and recover critical Meraki configurations before network changes become business disruptions.

Introducing Cisco Meraki Backup and Recovery

With ControlMonkey, teams can protect key Cisco Meraki configurations, including:

  • Firewall filtering rules that control access and network security
  • VLAN configurations that define internal network segmentation
  • Site-to-site VPN settings that connect offices, branches, and distributed environments
  • Traffic shaping policies that manage bandwidth and application performance
  • Network configuration changes that need visibility, versioning, and fast recovery

Why Do You Need a Resilience Solution for Cisco Meraki?

Cisco Meraki controls critical office and branch connectivity. If firewall rules, VLANs, site-to-site VPN settings, or traffic shaping policies are changed or deleted, the impact can be immediate: users lose access, offices go offline, security policies break, and IT teams are forced to troubleshoot under pressure.

There are few risk vectors:

  • It could be an honest mistake of one of your employees
  • Malicious actor trying to shut down your office
  • or an over-permissive AI agent that made a change it shouldn’t.

ControlMonkey gives teams a reliable recovery path for Cisco Meraki configuration. Instead of relying on manual investigation or tribal knowledge, teams can track configuration changes over time, identify creations, modifications, and deletions, and restore a previous known-good state when needed.

How Does Cisco Meraki Disaster Recovery Work?

ControlMonkey connects to your Cisco Meraki environment and continuously scans supported network configurations, including firewall filtering rules, VLANs, site-to-site VPN settings, and traffic shaping policies.

Each configuration state is automatically backed up and versioned, so teams can track changes over time and identify what changed, when it changed, and what needs to be restored.

If a configuration is deleted, misconfigured, or changed unintentionally, ControlMonkey enables teams to recover the previous state quickly – reducing downtime risk and protecting office and branch connectivity.

You can also use the daily snapshot to replicate your Meraki configuration to a new tenant or office. This makes it easy to copy your configurations in the event of a ransomware attack or when you need to quickly spin up a new site.

How ControlMonkey Is Different

Traditional Cisco Meraki backup vendors help teams protect Meraki configurations such as firewall rules, VLANs, site-to-site VPNs, and traffic shaping policies. ControlMonkey goes further by making Meraki part of a broader cloud and SaaS configuration disaster recovery strategy.

That means Cisco Meraki is protected alongside the other configuration layers that keep the business running : cloud resources, DNS, CDN, identity, observability, databases, version control systems, and third-party SaaS platforms.

Instead of treating Meraki as a standalone network backup workflow, ControlMonkey helps teams answer a bigger resilience question: Can we restore how our environment was configured not just recover our data?

ControlMonkey vs. Traditional Cisco Meraki Backup Vendors 

ControlMonkeyTraditional Vendor
FocusDisaster recovery for cloud, SaaS, network, identity, and infrastructure configurationMeraki or network configuration backup and rollback
How Meraki Is TreatedProtects Meraki as part of the broader business configuration layerProtects Meraki mainly as a standalone network platform
Configuration ScopeCovers Meraki as part of a wider cloud, SaaS, identity, observability, and network configuration DR strategyFocuses mainly on Meraki/network configuration history and restore
Recovery ApproachUses versioned snapshots so teams can restore Meraki configurations to a previous known-good point in timeEnables rollback or restore of Meraki/network settings
Governance ValueProvides visibility into DR readiness, backup coverage, recovery gaps, and resilience postureProvides network change tracking, backup history, and restore options
Operational OutcomeDetects ClickOps and drift, helps teams remediate unintended changes, and keeps configurations aligned with the desired stateHelps network teams recover specific Meraki or device-level configurations after a change or failure
Best FitOrganizations that want unified configuration DR, drift detection, and remediation across cloud, SaaS, identity, network, and infrastructureNetwork teams looking for a dedicated Meraki backup solution

Bottom line: Cisco Meraki backup is not new. What makes ControlMonkey different is that Meraki becomes part of a unified configuration disaster recovery strategy — with point-in-time snapshots, ClickOps visibility, drift detection, and remediation across the configuration layer the business depends on.

Stay Ahead with Cisco Meraki Backup and Recovery!

ControlMonkey extends disaster recovery beyond cloud resources and into the network control plane.

By supporting Cisco Meraki Disaster Recovery, ControlMonkey helps teams improve visibility, reduce operational risk, and recover faster from accidental changes, misconfigurations, unauthorized updates, or automation errors.

Now, Meraki configurations can be protected alongside cloud, SaaS, identity, observability, and infrastructure configurations — giving teams a more complete resilience strategy across the systems that keep the business running.

With ControlMonkey, teams can scale office and branch network operations with more confidence, knowing that critical Meraki configuration is backed up, versioned, and recoverable.

Ready to protect your Cisco Meraki configurations?

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    Updated: May 27, 2026 Upd: 27.05.26

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    Zscaler Backup and Recovery Support

    Zack Bentolila

    Zack Bentolila

    Marketing Director

    Zscaler Backup and Recovery Support

    Many teams depend on Zscaler to enforce access, inspection, and traffic control policies across distributed environments. But when those policies are changed, deleted, or misconfigured, the impact can be immediate: broken access, weakened security posture, and operational disruption.

    ControlMonkey now supports Zscaler Backup and Restoration, helping teams protect critical Zscaler configurations with automated backup, change visibility, and fast recovery.

    Billboard asking “Can you recover your Zscaler configs?” for ControlMonkey Zscaler disaster recovery.

    Introducing Zscaler Backup and Recovery

    With ControlMonkey, teams can now protect key Zscaler configurations, including:

    • Firewall filtering rules
      Back up and recover traffic filtering policies that control allowed and blocked connections.
    • Browser access policies
      Protect the policies that define secure browser access across users, apps, and environments.
    • SSL inspection policies
      Recover inspection settings that are critical for visibility, compliance, and threat prevention.
    • Configuration change visibility
      Track how Zscaler security policies change over time and identify risky or unintended modifications.
    • Fast recovery from mistakes or incidents
      Restore critical Zscaler configurations after accidental deletions, misconfigurations, cyber incidents, or AI-driven changes.

    Why Do You Need a Resilience Solution for Zscaler?

    Zscaler policies sit directly in the path of user access, internet traffic, and security enforcement. That means even small configuration errors can create a major business impact.

    • Deleted firewall rules can block critical services. 
    • changed browser access policy can disrupt employee access.
    •  Misconfigured SSL inspection policy can reduce security visibility or break application traffic.

    For teams operating at scale, Zscaler configuration is not just a security setting. It is part of the cloud control plane.

    ControlMonkey helps ensure these configurations are continuously backed up, versioned, and recoverable as part of a broader infrastructure resilience strategy.

    There are several risk vectors to consider:

    • an honest mistake by an employee
    • a malicious actor attempting to disrupt your office operations
    • an over-permissioned AI agent making changes it shouldn’t.

    How Does It Work Back and Recovery works?

    1. ControlMonkey connects to your Zscaler environment using secure API access and continuously scans supported configuration types.
    2. It captures configuration states over time, tracks changes, and maintains recoverable snapshots of critical policies. If a configuration is accidentally deleted, changed incorrectly, or impacted by an incident, teams can review previous states and restore the required configuration.
    3. This helps Security and Network teams reduce recovery time, maintain policy continuity, and avoid manual rebuilds during high-pressure incidents.

    Why Zscaler Native Backup Is Not Enough for Full Configuration Resilience

    Zscaler policies often work alongside cloud infrastructure, identity providers, DNS, networking, CI/CD systems, and SaaS platforms. When an incident happens, teams need more than a point-in-time restore inside Zscaler. They need visibility into what changed, how it relates to the rest of the environment, and how to recover critical configurations quickly and safely.

    ControlMonkey extends Zscaler backup and recovery into a broader configuration resilience strategy.

    By protecting Zscaler policies alongside the rest of the cloud control plane, teams can reduce manual recovery work, improve change visibility, and maintain business continuity across connected systems. 

    Native Zscaler BackupControlMonkey Zscaler Backup and Recovery
    Focused on Zscaler configurationsProtects Zscaler as part of the broader cloud and SaaS control plane
    Useful for platform-level restoreDesigned for cross-platform configuration resilience
    Helps recover Zscaler policy stateHelps teams understand, track, and recover critical configuration changes
    Limited to the Zscaler environmentConnects Zscaler recovery to cloud, identity, network, and SaaS resilience
    Restores one or few selected Zscaler configuration statesProvides ongoing snapshots, change visibility, and recovery across connected cloud and SaaS systems

    Stay Ahead with Zscaler Backup and Recovery

    Security configurations are now part of modern infrastructure operations. They define who can access what, how traffic is inspected, and how organizations enforce policy across cloud and SaaS environments.

    By extending backup and recovery to Zscaler, ControlMonkey helps teams:

    • Improve visibility into security policy changes
    • Reduce risk from accidental or unauthorized configuration updates
    • Strengthen resilience across cloud and SaaS control planes
    • Recover faster from configuration mistakes and cyber incidents
    • Scale security governance with confidence

    Zscaler protects access and traffic.
    ControlMonkey protects the configuration behind it.

    Ready to protect your Zscaler configuration?

    Explore Zscaler Backup and Recovery with ControlMonkey today.

    Reference Table: Key Zscaler Configurations for Backup and Recovery

    ConfigurationDescriptionExample
    Firewall Filtering RulesConfigurations that define which traffic is allowed, blocked, or controlled across users, apps, services, and destinations.Allow/block rulesSource and destination conditionsService-based rulesUser/group-based rulesApplication-based rules
    Browser Access PoliciesConfigurations that control secure browser-based access to applications and resources.Browser access rules
    Private app browser access
    Browser-based access conditions
    User access logic
    Application access controlsPrivate app browser accessBrowser-based access conditionsUser access logicApplication access controls
    SSL Inspection PoliciesConfigurations that define how encrypted traffic is inspected, bypassed, or controlled.SSL inspection rules
    SSL bypass settings
    Inspection exceptions
    Certificate-related settings
    App-specific inspection logic
    URL Filtering RulesConfigurations that control access to websites, categories, and web destinations.URL filtering rules
    Custom URL categories
    Blocked categories
    Allowed categories
    Web access policies
    ZPA Access Policy RulesConfigurations that define who can access private applications through Zscaler Private Access.Access policy rules
    User/group access conditions
    Device posture conditions
    Identity-based access logic
    Rule order
    Application SegmentsConfigurations that define private applications protected by ZPA and how users reach them.Application segments
    Browser access app segments
    Inspection app segments
    Segment groups
    Server groups
    DLP RulesConfigurations that detect and control sensitive data movement across web and cloud applications.DLP rules
    DLP dictionaries
    DLP engines
    Data matching patterns
    Notification templates
    Cloud App Control RulesConfigurations that govern user actions across SaaS and cloud applications.App control rules
    CASB DLP rules
    CASB malware rules
    Tenant restrictions
    Cloud app policies
    Threat Protection PoliciesConfigurations that enforce protection against malware, malicious URLs, file-based threats, and risky content.Advanced threat settings
    ATP malware policies
    Sandbox rules
    Security exceptions
    Malicious URL policies
    Traffic Forwarding SettingsConfigurations that define how traffic is routed into and through Zscaler.Forwarding rules
    GRE tunnels
    VPN credentials
    Static IP forwarding
    Forwarding control policies
    Admin Roles & UsersConfigurations that define who can manage Zscaler and what permissions they have.Admin users
    Admin roles
    Permission scopes
    Role assignments
    Governance settings
    Logging & SIEM IntegrationsConfigurations that support visibility, audit, and security monitoring.NSS feeds
    NSS servers
    LSS log configurations
    Log forwarding settings
    SIEM integrations
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      Updated: May 15, 2026 Upd: 15.05.26

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      See Exactly What Changed in Your Cloud – Over Time

      Zack Bentolila

      Zack Bentolila

      Marketing Director

      See Exactly What Changed in Your Cloud – Over Time

      ControlMonkey now introduces Snapshot Changes Over Time a historical diff layer for your cloud, Configuration, SaaS, Network and their dependencies

      ControlMonkey now compares point-in-time snapshots of your infrastructure and shows exactly what changed between them: what was created, modified, or deleted. You can drill down to the resource level, view side-by-side differences, and understand how your environment evolved over time.

      Why Change Visibility Matters

      As cloud environments scale, so does the volume of change. Multiple teams are constantly updating infrastructure – some through IaC, others manually. Some changes are planned. Others are not. And many go untracked.

      When incidents happen, teams are left without clear answers:

      • What changed?
      • When did it change?
      • Which version of the environment was stable?

      Without this visibility, recovery becomes guesswork.

      Teams need a reliable way to trace changes over time: both to investigate issues and to understand which point in time they can safely recover to. Just as importantly, they need a clear control layer to understand how their environment is evolving day by day.

      The new feature works across all of your vendors: AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, Akamai, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Databriks, Launch Darkly and more. You have a single location to track them all.

      How Snapshot Changes Over Time Works

      From snapshot capture to side-by-side comparison, ControlMonkey helps teams understand exactly how their infrastructure changed over time.

      Snapshot and Capture

      ControlMonkey continuously captures deterministic snapshots of your infrastructure state.
      This creates a reliable historical record of your environment across cloud, network, and SaaS systems.

      Compare Changes Between Snapshots

      ControlMonkey calculates the diff between two points in time and shows exactly what changed.
      Teams can instantly see what was created, modified, or deleted between snapshots.

      Drill Down to the Resource Level

      Users can click into a specific resource to inspect detailed changes over time.
      This includes side-by-side comparison of older and newer states, making it easy to understand the exact configuration delta.

      Investigate with Context

      Teams can explore change activity through a timeline view, spot unusual spikes or patterns, and understand when changes occurred.
      This helps investigate incidents, trace unexpected changes, and understand how dependencies evolved.

      Summarize with AI

      ControlMonkey KomoAI generates an AI summary of the differences between snapshots. This gives teams a faster way to understand what changed without manually reviewing every line. Even if they’re not Infrastruccture expert.

      Review and Govern

      By turning infrastructure history into an explorable change record, ControlMonkey gives platform teams a clearer control layer for governance, investigation, and recovery decisions.
      Teams can use this visibility to detect unauthorized changes, support audits, and identify the right recovery point with more confidence.

      Stay Ahead with Cloud Governance and Change Control

      As more teams, tools, and automation layers interact with your cloud, the volume of changes increases. Some are planned. Others are not. Without a clear view of how your environment evolves over time, teams are left reacting to incidents without understanding their root cause.

      ControlMonkey gives you a deterministic, historical view of your infrastructure, across all of your vendors – so you can see exactly what changed, when, and how. By turning snapshots into an explorable change history, teams can investigate incidents faster, detect unauthorized changes, and confidently decide where to recover from.

      Ready to take control? Explore Snapshot Changes Over Time today.

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      Zack is the Marketing Director at ControlMonkey, with a strong focus on DevOps and DevSecOps. He was the Senior Director of Partner Marketing and Field Marketing Manager at Checkmarx. There, he helped with global security projects. With over 10 years in marketing, Zack specializes in content strategy, technical messaging, and go-to-market alignment. He loves turning complex cloud and security ideas into clear, useful insights for engineering, DevOps, and security leaders.

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        Updated: May 06, 2026 Upd: 06.05.26

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        Configuration Disaster Recovery to GitHub

        Zack Bentolila

        Zack Bentolila

        Marketing Director

        Configuration Disaster Recovery to GitHub

        ControlMonkey now supports GitHub Configuration Backup and Recovery, enabling teams to automatically back up and restore critical GitHub configurations, including repository settings, branch protection rules, permissions, and workflows.

        GitHub controls how code is shipped, who can access it, and how pipelines operate – yet its configuration layer is rarely protected by a resilience solution.

        Introducing GitHub Configuration Backup and Recovery

        • Protect repository configurations, access controls, and branch rules
        • Continuously capture workflows, policies, and configuration states
        • Restore GitHub environments quickly after incidents or misconfigurations
        • Reduce risk from human error, automation failures, or malicious changes
        • Extend disaster recovery to your software delivery control plane

        Examples of protected GitHub configurations include:

        • Repository settings that define collaboration and visibility
        • Branch protection rules enforcing code quality and deployment safety
        • Permissions and access controls across teams and users
        • GitHub Actions workflows powering CI/CD pipelines
        • Webhooks and integrations connecting GitHub to external systems 

        Why Do You Need a Resilience Solution for GitHub?

        GitHub is deeply embedded in your production delivery pipeline – meaning misconfigurations or compromises can immediately impact deployments, access control, and development velocity.

        Here are some of the key risks teams face:

        • Ransomware or account takeover – What happens if your GitHub organization is compromised? Attackers could modify repositories, remove protections, or disrupt pipelines.
        • Cyber attacks / malicious actors – Unauthorized changes to workflows, permissions, or integrations can expose code, bypass controls, or break delivery processes.
        • Human error – Even experienced engineers make mistakes—removing branch protection, misconfiguring access, or altering workflows in the wrong repository.
        • Over-permissive AI agents – As AI-driven automation expands in CI/CD, agents with broad permissions can unintentionally introduce risky or large-scale configuration changes.

        ControlMonkey helps teams safeguard GitHub by protecting the configuration layer that defines how code is managed, how pipelines run, and who has access.

        Stay Ahead with GitHub Backup and Recovery

        GitHub is no longer just a code repository – it is a critical layer in your infrastructure and application delivery pipeline. When configuration is lost or altered, pipelines break, access control is compromised, and recovery becomes manual and slow.

        ControlMonkey brings GitHub into your Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery strategy by continuously backing up configuration states and enabling fast, reliable restoration. This ensures that delivery workflows, governance policies, and access structures remain intact—even during outages or security incidents.

        With full visibility into configuration changes and the ability to recover instantly, teams can reduce risk, maintain IaC alignment, and scale operations without losing control.

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        Zack is the Marketing Director at ControlMonkey, with a strong focus on DevOps and DevSecOps. He was the Senior Director of Partner Marketing and Field Marketing Manager at Checkmarx. There, he helped with global security projects. With over 10 years in marketing, Zack specializes in content strategy, technical messaging, and go-to-market alignment. He loves turning complex cloud and security ideas into clear, useful insights for engineering, DevOps, and security leaders.

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          Updated: May 13, 2026 Upd: 13.05.26

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          Identity Providers Disaster Recovery

          Aharon Twizer

          Aharon Twizer

          CEO & Co-founder

          Identity Providers Disaster Recovery

          ControlMonkey now extends Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery to identity providers, protecting identity environments across Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, OneLogin, Ping Identity, and JumpCloud.

          Modern cloud operations rely heavily on identity providers. During daily operations and incidents, SSO, MFA policies, and access rules control how users interact with infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal systems.

          Yet the configurations behind these systems – authentication policies, app assignments, roles, and access controls – are rarely protected by a solution for disaster recovery.

          Identity DR Key capabilities:

          ControlMonkey automatically captures daily snapshots of identity configurations so teams can restore access environments and maintain operational continuity during incidents.

          Protect access control configuration
          Backup SSO settings, MFA policies, app assignments, roles, and identity rules created over time.

          Restore identity environments quickly
          Recover identity configurations from versioned snapshots instead of rebuilding access policies manually.

          Detect configuration drift in identity systems
          Track changes across IDP platforms and identify unexpected or unauthorized modifications.

          Preserve identity-to-system relationships
          Maintain consistency between identity policies, application access, and infrastructure during recovery.

          Extend disaster recovery beyond infrastructure
          Protect the broader cloud control plane including infrastructure, network, observability, and identity configuration.

          Identity is not just another system – it’s the layer that connects users to everything else. Recovering identity in isolation doesn’t work. You need to restore it together with the infrastructure and applications it controls.

          Aharon Twizer

          Aharon Twizer

          CEO & Co-Founder

          How does Identity Configuration Disaster Recovery work?

          ControlMonkey Cloud DR solution continuously captures configuration snapshots from supported identity providers.

          Each snapshot records the structure and settings of identity environments, including:

          • SSO and federation configurations
          • MFA and authentication policies
          • Application assignments and integrations
          • Roles, groups, and permissions
          • Directory and access control structures

          These configurations are versioned and stored securely, allowing teams to compare changes over time and restore previous configurations when needed.

          If access policies are misconfigured, applications are disconnected, or identity rules break and and cause an incident –  teams can restore identity configurations directly from a previous snapshot – without manually rebuilding/configuring access environments.

          Why Disaster Recovery for the Identity Layer?

          Traditional disaster recovery focuses on restoring data and storage.
          But modern cloud environments depend on access.

          The identity layer connects users to infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal systems – making it a critical part of the cloud control plane.

          With ControlMonkey, teams can:

          • Maintain versioned backups of identity environments
          • Detect configuration changes and drift
          • Restore identity systems quickly during incidents
          • Ensure DR visibility with a clear Resilience Score

           At scale, restoring access quickly remains a challenge. Identity configurations are complex, frequently changing, and tightly connected to other systems.

          By extending configuration disaster recovery to identity providers, ControlMonkey helps teams maintain operational continuity across both systems and access.

          Cross-layer recovery: identity + infrastructure + SaaS

          Identity does not operate in isolation.

          ControlMonkey preserves and restores the relationships between identity, infrastructure, SaaS applications, and cloud resources — ensuring systems and access remain aligned after a  recovery.

          This prevents scenarios where identity is restored but underlying systems are not – or vice versa.

          Ready to be Cyber Resilient?

          Explore Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery for Identity Providers or schedule a demo today.

          Reference Table: Key Identity Provider Configurations Protected by ControlMonkeyenvironment.

          Real-World Impact: Datadog dashboards, monitors, and alerting policies

          Our Datadog dashboards, monitors, and alerting policies represent years of operational knowledge and tuning. Losing that configuration during an incident would significantly impact our ability to diagnose issues quickly. With ControlMonkey, we know our observability configurations are versioned and recoverable, ensuring we maintain visibility when it matters most

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          Reference Table: Key Identity Provider Configurations Protected by ControlMonkey

          ConfigurationDescriptionExamples
          SSO & Federation SettingsConfigurations that define how users authenticate across systems and external identity providers.SAML configurations
          OIDC settings
          Federation trust relationships
          Identity provider routing rules
          Domain verification
          Authentication & MFA PoliciesRules that control how users authenticate and what security factors are required.MFA policies
          Conditional access rules
          Password policies
          Adaptive authentication
          Device trust policies
          Application Integrations & AssignmentsConfigurations that manage access between users and connected applications.App integrations (SaaS, internal)
          User-to-app assignments
          Group-based access
          Provisioning settings (SCIM)SSO app mappings
          Users, Groups & Directory StructureIdentity objects and their relationships within the organization.User accounts
          Groups and roles
          Group memberships
          Directory attributes
          Organizational units
          Roles & Access Control PoliciesDefinitions of permissions and administrative access across the environment.Admin rolesRBAC policies
          Privilege assignments
          Access scopes
          Delegated admin controls
          Identity Lifecycle & ProvisioningRules governing user onboarding, updates, and deprovisioning.User provisioning workflowsDeprovisioning rules
          SCIM sync settings
          Lifecycle policies
          Joiner/mover/leaver flows
          API & Integration ConfigurationsSettings enabling integrations between identity providers and external systems.API tokens
          Webhook configurationsIntegration endpoints
          Service accounts
          Automation connectors
          Security & Risk PoliciesConfigurations that enforce identity security and detect anomalies.Risk-based policiesLogin anomaly detection
          Geo/location restrictionsSession policies
          Threat protection rules
          Audit & Logging SettingsConfigurations defining how identity activity is tracked and monitored.Audit logs configuration
          Event tracking settings
          Log retention policies
          SIEM integrations
          Branding & User Experience SettingsConfigurations that control the user-facing authentication experience.Login pagesCustom domains
          Email templates
          User flows
          Self-service settings
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          Co-Founder and CEO of ControlMonkey. He has over 20 years of experience in software development. He was the CTO of Spot.io, which was bought by NetApp for more than $400 million. There, he led important tech innovations in cloud optimization and Kubernetes. He later joined AWS as a Principal Solutions Architect, helping global partners solve complex cloud challenges. In 2022, he started ControlMonkey to help DevOps teams discover, manage, and scale their cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code. Aharon loves creating tools that help engineering teams. These tools make it easier to manage the complexity of modern cloud environments.

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            Introducing LaunchDarkly Disaster Recovery

            Zack Bentolila

            Zack Bentolila

            Marketing Director

            Introducing LaunchDarkly Disaster Recovery

            ControlMonkey now supports LaunchDarkly Disaster Recovery, enabling teams to automatically back up and restore critical LaunchDarkly configurations, including feature flags, segments, and views.

            LaunchDarkly controls feature rollout and targeting rules in real time, yet its configuration layer is rarely protected by a resilience solution.

            Why do you need a resilience solution for LaunchDarkly? 

            Feature flag platforms like LaunchDarkly are deeply embedded in your production environment meaning misconfigurations or compromises can have immediate, widespread impact.

             Here are some of the key risks teams face:

            • Ransomware or account takeover –  What happens if your LaunchDarkly account is compromised? An attacker could modify or disable critical flags, impacting availability and user experience. 
            • Cyber attacks / malicious actors – Unauthorized changes to feature flags can be used to expose functionality, bypass controls, or disrupt your application. 
            • Human error –  Even experienced engineers can make mistakes – accidentally toggling the wrong flag or applying changes to the wrong environment. 
            • Over-permissive AI agents – With the rise of AI-assisted workflows (e.g., LaunchDarkly MCP server), agents operating with admin-level permissions can unintentionally introduce risky or large-scale changes.

            ControlMonkey helps teams safeguard LaunchDarkly by protecting the operational logic that defines how features are released, who sees them, and how changes are rolled out.

            Examples of protected LaunchDarkly configurations include:

            • Feature flags controlling runtime application behavior
            • Targeting rules defining rollout logic and user exposure
            • Segments used for user targeting and progressive delivery
            • Views organizing feature management workflows

            With this capability, teams can:

            • Automatically back up LaunchDarkly configurations
            • Track changes to feature flags and targeting over time
            • Recover quickly from accidental changes or deletions
            • Reduce risk across production release processes
            • Restore feature flags and targeting logic without manual reconstruction

            How LaunchDarkly Disaster Recovery Works

            From discovery to recovery, ControlMonkey ensures LaunchDarkly configurations are always backed up, versioned, and ready to restore in minutes. Here is the full process:

            Snapshot and Backup

            • ControlMonkey continuously captures the state of LaunchDarkly configurations and creates versioned snapshots.
            • This provides a reliable historical record of feature flags, segments, and targeting logic across environments.

            Recover – Feature Flags, Segments, and Views

            • If configurations are deleted or misconfigured, teams can restore them from a known-good snapshot in minutes.
            • This eliminates manual rebuilding of feature flags and targeting rules—reducing recovery time and avoiding errors.

            Review & Govern

            • The ControlMonkey Cloud Resilience Dashboard provides visibility into disaster recovery readiness across infrastructure and SaaS platforms like LaunchDarkly.
            • Teams can monitor protection coverage and identify resilience gaps before incidents occur.

            Stay Ahead with Darkly Disaster Recovery

            Feature management platforms like LaunchDarkly are critical to modern software delivery. Yet while organizations focus on application code and infrastructure, the configuration layer that controls feature rollout and targeting often remains unprotected.

            ControlMonkey ensures LaunchDarkly configurations are protected alongside infrastructure and SaaS platforms. By continuously backing up configuration states and enabling rapid restoration, teams can recover quickly from outages, misconfigurations, and unintended changes—and maintain control over production behavior.

            Ready to take control? Explore LaunchDarkly Disaster Recovery today.

            FQA – About Darkly and Backup

            ControlMonkey backs up LaunchDarkly feature flags, segments, and views, including the targeting logic that controls feature rollout.

            Teams can restore feature flags, segments, and targeting logic from a known-good snapshot in minutes, reducing downtime and avoiding manual reconstruction.

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              Snowflake Disaster Recovery

              Zack Bentolila

              Zack Bentolila

              Marketing Director

              Snowflake Disaster Recovery

              ControlMonkey now supports Snowflake Disaster Recovery, enabling teams to automatically back up and restore critical Snowflake configurations including roles, warehouses, schemas, and access policies when mistakes or incidents occur.

              Snowflake powers some of the most critical data workloads in the cloud, yet its configuration layer is rarely protected by a cyber resilience solution.

              Introducing Snowflake Configuration Disaster Recovery

              ControlMonkey helps teams safeguard Snowflake environments by protecting the operational configuration that keeps data platforms running.

              Examples of protected Snowflake configurations include:

              • Roles and grants controlling data access
              • Warehouses powering compute workloads
              • Databases and schemas organizing data environments
              • Resource monitors and policies managing usage and governance
              • Platform configuration settings critical to operational stability

              With this capability, teams can:

              • Automatically back up Snowflake configuration
              • Track configuration changes over time
              • Recover quickly from accidental changes or deletions
              • Reduce operational risk across data infrastructure
              • Restore Snowflake environments without manual reconstruction

              How Snowflake Disaster Recovery Works

              ControlMonkey connects to Snowflake using secure APIs and automatically discovers configuration assets across the Snowflake environment. This discovery process maps the operational structure of the data platform, including access controls, compute resources, and governance settings.

              These configurations define how Snowflake environments operate and are essential for governance, access control, and workload management.

              Snapshot and Backup

              ControlMonkey continuously captures the configuration state of Snowflake resources and creates versioned snapshots of those configurations.

              This provides a reliable historical, good-know state record of Snowflake configurations.

              Recover – Roles, Warehouses, Schemas, and Policies

              If roles, warehouses, schemas, or policies are deleted or misconfigured, teams can quickly restore them from a known-good snapshot, recovering Snowflake configuration in minutes.

              This eliminates the need for manual reconstruction of complex platform settings.

              Review & Govern

              The ControlMonkey Cloud Resilience Dashboard provides visibility into disaster recovery readiness across cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and SaaS tools like Snowflake.

              Teams can monitor protection coverage and identify resilience gaps before incidents occur.

              Stay Ahead with Snowflake Disaster Recovery

              Data platforms like Snowflake are critical to modern cloud operations. Yet while organizations protect data, the configuration layer often remains vulnerable.

              ControlMonkey ensures Snowflake configurations are protected alongside infrastructure and SaaS platforms. By continuously backing up configuration states and enabling rapid restoration, teams can recover quickly from ransomware, cyber attacks, AI agents and configuration mistakes and maintain operational continuity.

              Ready to be Cyber Resilient?

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                Disaster Recovery for Observability: Dashboards, Alerts, and Monitors

                Zack Bentolila

                Zack Bentolila

                Marketing Director

                Disaster Recovery for Observability: Dashboards, Alerts, and Monitors

                Observability Disaster Recovery is the new addtioan to Controlmonkey DR Soultion. Modern cloud operations rely heavily on observability. During incidents, dashboards, alerts, and monitoring rules are often the first place engineers turn to understand what’s happening.

                Yet the configurations behind these systems – dashboards, alert policies, monitors, and escalation rules – are rarely protected by disaster recovery.

                Introducing Observability Configuration Disaster Recovery

                ControlMonkey now extends Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery to observability platforms, protecting monitoring environments across Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, and Splunk.

                ControlMonkey automatically captures daily snapshots of observability configurations so teams can restore monitoring environments and maintain operational visibility during incidents.

                Observability DR Key capabilities:

                • Protect operational knowledge
                  Backup dashboards, monitors, alert rules, and escalation policies created over years of operational tuning.
                • Restore monitoring environments quickly
                  Recover observability configurations from versioned snapshots instead of rebuilding manually.
                • Detect configuration drift in monitoring systems
                  Track changes across observability platforms and identify unexpected modifications.
                • Ensure monitoring visibility during incidents
                  Maintain access to critical dashboards and alerts when diagnosing outages.
                • Extend disaster recovery beyond infrastructure
                  Protect the broader cloud control plane including infrastructure, network, and observability configuration.

                How does Observability Configuration Disaster Recovery Works?

                ControlMonkey Cloud DR solution continuously captures configuration snapshots from supported observability platforms.

                Each snapshot records the structure and settings of monitoring environments, including:

                • Dashboards and visualizations
                • Alert rules and alert routing policies
                • Monitors across metrics, logs, and traces
                • Notification channels and escalation policies
                • Service monitoring and APM configurations
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                These configurations are versioned and stored securely, allowing teams to compare changes over time and restore previous configurations when needed.

                If dashboards are deleted, alerts are misconfigured, or monitoring rules break during an incident, engineers can restore observability configurations directly from a previous snapshot – without manually rebuilding monitoring environments.

                Why Disaster Recovery for the Observability Layer?

                Traditional disaster recovery focuses on restoring data, storage, and infrastructure.

                But modern cloud environments rely on far more than compute resources. The cloud control plane – including monitoring configuration – contains the operational knowledge engineers depend on to diagnose and resolve incidents.

                With ControlMonkey, teams can:

                • Maintain versioned backups of observability environments
                • Detect configuration changes and drift
                • Restore monitoring systems quickly during incidents
                • Ensure DR visibility by having clear Resilience Score

                By extending configuration disaster recovery to observability, ControlMonkey helps teams maintain operational continuity across the entire cloud environment.

                During incidents, engineers rely on monitoring systems to understand what’s happening – yet observability configurations themselves are rarely protected by disaster recovery. As a CTO, I know firsthand how valuable it would have been to restore dashboards and monitoring environments instantly instead of rebuilding them under pressure.

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                CTO

                Real-World Impact: Datadog dashboards, monitors, and alerting policies

                Our Datadog dashboards, monitors, and alerting policies represent years of operational knowledge and tuning. Losing that configuration during an incident would significantly impact our ability to diagnose issues quickly. With ControlMonkey, we know our observability configurations are versioned and recoverable, ensuring we maintain visibility when it matters most<br />

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                Reference Table: Key APM Configurations Used in Observability Platforms

                ConfigurationDescriptionExample
                Dashboards & VisualizationsConfigurations that define how telemetry data is displayed.Dashboards
                Saved views
                Dashboard layouts
                Panels / widgets
                Visualization settings
                Graph queries
                Dashboard variables
                Alerts & Alerting RulesConfigurations that trigger notifications when conditions are met.Alert rules
                Alert thresholds
                Alert policies
                Alert conditions
                Alert templates
                Alert routing rules
                Alert severity levels
                Alert suppression rules
                Alert deduplication settings
                MonitorsDefinitions that evaluate metrics, logs, or traces.
                Metric monitors
                Log monitors
                Trace monitors
                Synthetic monitors
                Service health monitors
                SLO monitors
                Infrastructure monitors
                Notification & Escalation PoliciesConfigurations controlling how incidents are communicated.Notification channels
                Escalation policies
                PagerDuty integrations
                Slack / Teams alert routing
                Email notification rules
                On-call schedules
                Service & Application MonitoringConfigurations defining what services are observed.Service definitions
                Service maps
                Application performance monitoring (APM) settings
                Dependency maps
                Service tags / metadata
                Environment tags
                Metrics ConfigurationHow metrics are collected, stored, and analyzed.Custom metrics definitions
                Metric queries
                Metric tagging rules
                Metric retention policies
                Metric filters
                Metric rollups / aggregations
                Synthetic MonitoringTesting and uptime monitoring configurations.Synthetic tests
                API tests
                Browser tests
                Uptime monitors
                Test schedules
                Test locations
                Table: Core APM configurations used to manage observability, monitoring, and incident response
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                  Dynatrace Disaster Recovery

                  Zack Bentolila

                  Zack Bentolila

                  Marketing Director

                  Dynatrace Disaster Recovery

                  Modern cloud operations rely on observability platforms like Dynatrace to detect incidents and maintain service reliability. But while infrastructure and data may be protected, monitoring configurations themselves are often not recoverable.

                  With ControlMonkey, teams can now extend Cloud Disaster Recovery to Dynatrace configuration backup – ensuring dashboards, alerts, monitors, and metrics can be restored instantly in case of incidents, misconfigurations, or ransomware.

                  Introducing Dynatrace Configuration Backup & Recovery

                  ControlMonkey now protects critical Dynatrace configurations as part of its Cloud Disaster Recovery platform.

                  Key capabilities include:

                  • Automated backup of Dynatrace dashboards, metrics, monitors, and alerts
                  • Versioned snapshots of monitoring configurations
                  • Rapid recovery of observability environments after incidents
                  • Resilience Score across monitoring platforms
                  • Unified disaster recovery method across cloud infrastructure and SaaS tools

                  How Dynatrace Disaster Recovery Works

                  ControlMonkey continuously protects Dynatrace configuration so teams can restore their monitoring environment to a known-good state when incidents occur.

                  Discover Dynatrace configurations

                  ControlMonkey connects to Dynatrace using secure APIs and automatically discovers configuration assets including dashboards, monitors, alerts, and metrics.

                  Snapshot and Backup

                  On a continuous basis, ControlMonkey captures the exact configuration state of Dynatrace resources and creates versioned snapshots of those configurations.

                  Recover 

                  If dashboards, monitors, or alerts are deleted or misconfigured, teams can quickly restore them from a good known snapshot – recovering observability environments in minutes.

                  Review & Govern

                  The ControlMonkey Cloud Resilience Dashboard provides visibility into DR readiness across cloud infrastructure and SaaS tools, helping teams identify gaps before incidents occur.

                  Stay Ahead with Dynatrace Disaster Recovery

                  As a CTO, I’m proud to introduce this capability. In my previous roles, having the ability to quickly recover from mistakes and investigate configuration changes would have saved days of troubleshooting and manual work

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                  Observability platforms are critical for detecting and resolving incidents. If monitoring configurations are lost during an outage or attack, recovery becomes significantly harder.

                  ControlMonkey ensures Dynatrace configurations are protected alongside infrastructure and SaaS platforms. By continuously backing up configuration states and enabling rapid restoration, teams can maintain operational visibility even during critical incidents.

                  This extends disaster recovery beyond data and infrastructure – ensuring the monitoring systems themselves are resilient.

                  Ready to be Cyber Resilient?

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                    Cloud Resilience Dashboard

                    Zack Bentolila

                    Zack Bentolila

                    Marketing Director

                    Cloud Resilience Dashboard

                    Cloud Resilience Dashboard gives organizations a measurable view of their configuration disaster recovery posture across cloud accounts and 3rd party services.

                    It introduces a single, actionable metric – Resilience Score – representing the percentage of discovered resources that are backed up and recoverable from a known-good snapshot.

                    For the 1st time Cloud executives can understand their resilience score in a single view.

                    Introducing the Cloud Resilience Dashboard

                    The dashboard is designed to answer critical operational and executive questions instantly:

                    • What percentage of our cloud infrastructure is actually DR-ready?
                    • Where are our configuration blind spots?
                    • Did our DR coverage regress this week? Why?
                    • Are unmanaged (non-IaC) resources included in DR coverage?
                    • Are our 3rd party vendors (e.g Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta) configurations ready for DR?

                    The Resilience Score reflects continuous discovery and snapshot coverage across:

                    • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) –  Infrastructure environments with DR enabled
                    • 3rd Party Accounts — SaaS and external platforms with DR enabled
                      • Network configurations
                      • Identity providers
                      • Monitoring platforms
                      • More

                    If a resource does not have a recoverable snapshot, it lowers the score. Gaps are immediately visible.

                    From Snapshot to Measurable Resilience

                    ControlMonkey daily snapshots guarantee resilience across cloud and 3rd parties. But as a CIO/CISO, you need a metric you can report back to your risk committee/board of directors. What matters is coverage, consistency, and visibility.The Cloud Resilience Dashboard connects snapshot activity to a measurable outcome – your Resilience Score.

                    Benefits of the dashboard for CIO and CISO:

                    • Quantify the percentage of infrastructure that is truly recoverable
                    • Detect newly added resources that are not yet protected
                    • Identify partial DR configurations at the account level
                    • Monitor coverage trends over time
                    • Validate that unmanaged (non-IaC) resources are included

                    You can also search and filters (Vendor, DR Status, Labels) allow teams to quickly locate exposed accounts and prioritize action.

                    Configuration recovery becomes measurable and governed – you have a clear idea of your RTO and RPO of your cloud.

                    Built for Governance and Executive Reporting

                    The Cloud Resilience Dashboard transforms configuration disaster recovery into a tracked governance metric.

                    Ready to measure your configuration DR readiness? Explore the Cloud Resilience Dashboard today.

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