Application Criticality Scoring for Business

Application Criticality Scoring for Business Continuity Planning

IN-COM August 25, 2026 , , , ,

Business continuity planning fails most often not during a crisis but during the assessment that precedes one. Organizations complete Business...

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Utilities and SCADA-Adjacent Legacy Code

Utilities and SCADA-Adjacent Legacy Code: Special Considerations for Modernization Teams

IN-COM August 19, 2026 , , , ,

The IT/OT boundary in a utility organization is not a clean line on a network diagram. It is a permeable...

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Orchestration vs. Automation

Orchestration vs. Automation: What Each One Does and When You Need Both

IN-COM July 29, 2026 , , , ,

Automation and orchestration are two of the most overloaded terms in modern IT. They appear together constantly, in job descriptions,...

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Detect Redundant File Opens and Closes in COBOL

How to Detect Redundant File Opens and Closes in COBOL: A Static Analysis Approach

IN-COM July 22, 2026 , , ,

File handling in COBOL is deceptively simple on the surface. You declare a file in the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, describe its...

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Abstract Interpretation in Static Code Analysis

Abstract Interpretation Explained: From Lattice Theory to Infer and Astrée

IN-COM July 20, 2026 , , , , ,

Consider two programs that both pass every test you write. One is correct. The other has a divide-by-zero error that...

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Legacy System Modernization Approaches

Legacy System Modernization Approaches: From Lift-and-Shift to Strangler Fig

IN-COM July 16, 2026 , , ,

Every organization running legacy systems faces the same fundamental tension. The systems are too valuable to abandon, too expensive to...

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