BlinkOps Agentic Security Automation
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Compatibility Champion, Limited Extensibility
What do you like best about the product?
I find Blink particularly helpful for executing JavaScript, thanks to its integration with the V8 engine. This feature significantly enhances my ability to browse and work on web projects since Blink ensures that JavaScript runs smoothly and efficiently, which is critical for the kind of work I do. The compatibility of Blink is another strong point; I appreciate how it allows me to optimize websites for browsers based on Blink, ensuring they function correctly and consistently. The ease of setup is also a big plus for me. I was able to get started quickly after signing up, which made for a seamless and straightforward introduction to using the software. This simplicity in setting up and using the software is highly valuable, making my overall experience with Blink very satisfying.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find Blink's limited extensibility problematic, especially when working on large and complex projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find Blink aids in the execution of JavaScript using the V8 engine and optimizes website functionality across compatible Blink-based browsers.
Great automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
They are willing to look into your support issues. The tool is also fun to build out.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still some bugs that prevent it from working as desired.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating rudamentary security functions.
Great customer experience.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, and timely response back from support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing honestly. They are a great group.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saving hours of research that I can use to work on other projects.
Flexible platform, solid team, growing capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
Blink is, above anything else, flexible. This is an incredibly important attribute for an automation/orchestration platform, because it's impossible to anticipate every way a user might want to leverage the platfrom to solve their business needs. This flexibility could be a detriment and create for a heavy, cumbersome, or confusing system, but Blink's approach makes it considerably easier than expected. With just a few clicks, new connections can be created, new steps can be added, and full workflows can be built intuitively (not to mention the Blink Copilot that can take a narrative description of a workflow and create a template to start with - huge timesaver!). The other aspect of an automation/orchestration platfrom is integration, and Blink's approach is both easy and flexible. Creating reusable, secure connections from Blink to the various tools and platforms it integrates with is straightforward and simple. Further, Blink's "Runner" architecture means you can have certain connections that only live within your own environment (vs. leveraging Blink's cloud) - just another example of the flexibility and thoughtful approach Blink takes to this space. Lastly, I have to comment on Blink's support and customer success teams, who are absolutely top of the line. Since implementing Blink, we've worked closely with their technical support teams to make sure we're able to get the most value out of the product. This ranges from support in creating workflows, to tracking down bug fixes, to guidance and ideas on new workflows. Our "time to market" on any given automation idea is drastically reduced as a result of this support, which is incredibly valuable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Blink is an organization and platform that is rapidly growing and evolving, which sometimes shows in things like documentation. While support is outstanding, it can be frustrating when attempting to self-serve (really the intended operating model) when the documentation is missing or just not complete enough to actually get the job done. Sometimes, this means going and digging into the API documentation for the tool/platform you're running actions against to better understand how it's supposed to work. That said, the Blink team is always willing to step in and help answers questions and get things working!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First and foremost, Blink is providing the ability to integrate and automate workflows and actions across the vast and varied operating environment used by our security organization. It allows us to recognize additional value from these security platforms and tools and how they can interoperate. The primary benefit we're getting is in the speed, efficiency, and consistency with which we can act in the context of those security tools, platforms, and events. It allows us to shift time and effort for repeatable, predictable tasks from our analysts and allow them to remained focus on the higher-order tasks they accel at.
In addition to the core automation/orchestration problems and value, we're also using Blink to address overall workflow management in the context of cybersecurity incident analysis and response. How do we keep track of incident response actions, tasks, decisions, and outcomes. This allows us to create a record and repository of those events to further enhance our defensive posture, analysis, and response capabilities.
In addition to the core automation/orchestration problems and value, we're also using Blink to address overall workflow management in the context of cybersecurity incident analysis and response. How do we keep track of incident response actions, tasks, decisions, and outcomes. This allows us to create a record and repository of those events to further enhance our defensive posture, analysis, and response capabilities.
BlinkOps automation review
What do you like best about the product?
BlinkOps platform helped me automate my daily tasks like cloud cleanups, performing hotfixes, and handling various custeng requests. now I can fulfill requests on my phone using their slack integration!
What do you dislike about the product?
Love the platform, There is nothing that I dislike about it, however sometimes the portal will be down maybe because of their updates. other than that it is amazing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handles various requests from customer engineering team (API automation), Cloud cleanups are easy, other tool integrations are also available that are used every day.
Blink’s automation tooling is incredibly but it’s true superpower is the team behind it
What do you like best about the product?
Most things I need exist, off the shelf. The few things not already available magically appear after a short chat with the Blink team. The documentation for setting up integrations is seriously world class, I've never had a smoother integration process.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't honestly think of something I dislike about it. If I had to nitpick, some of the built in automations could use a bit more polish. That said, the team is so responsive this isn't really an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're deploying Blink to enable our team to spend less time doing mindless repetitive or gating tasks, and more time being the knowledge workers they were hired to be. We're gaining efficiency and developer satisfaction at the same time.
Blink is a great automation platform!
What do you like best about the product?
- There are a lot of integrations with all common cloud providers, infrastructure providers, CI/CD tools, etc.
- There are a lot of out-of-the-box actions which will allow you to create automations without writing a single line of code
- There is a huge automations library which contains automations built by Blink team and you may search your use-case there
- There are a lot of out-of-the-box actions which will allow you to create automations without writing a single line of code
- There is a huge automations library which contains automations built by Blink team and you may search your use-case there
What do you dislike about the product?
- The platform can sometimes be a bit slow and buggy
- The self-service UI can be improved (mainly the inputs and outputs of the self-service form)
- I'd like to see the platform improve mainly in the self-service portal pages to make it more "welcoming" for customers
- The self-service UI can be improved (mainly the inputs and outputs of the self-service form)
- I'd like to see the platform improve mainly in the self-service portal pages to make it more "welcoming" for customers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blink helps us solve the complexity of building automations that interact with multiple sources (such as cloud providers and observability tools) while writing almost no code at all.
In addition, it brings as the features of a self-service portal which we can expose to our customers to consume our automations easily.
In addition, it brings as the features of a self-service portal which we can expose to our customers to consume our automations easily.
Great tool for creating automations
What do you like best about the product?
The way to visually represent a flow and see it working simultaneously. It has different automation types that are ready to configure and plugin easily. I loved that I could code using python as a little component and reuse it from other automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I used the python component a lot, and it was slow for testing my code. For instance, libraries were downloaded every time I executed the automation. Lack of observability was a problem; I added a bunch of print statements to see what was going on, which affected the program's output.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating use cases to accelerate developers and perform tasks to reduce costs. We can automate tasks and facilitate manual operations more effortlessly than before.
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