AI-Powered Configuration Drift Detection in Multi-Vendor Environments

AI-Powered Configuration Drift Detection in Multi-Vendor Environments One misconfigured firewall. One forgotten firmware change. And your entire infrastructure turns into a Friday night incident. If you’ve ever managed a hybrid stack—Cisco here, Palo Alto there, AWS in the cloud, plus a sprinkle of shadow IT—you know the pain of configuration drift. Small changes made in haste. Manual overrides with no audit. And suddenly, what was compliant last week is exploitable today. That’s where AI-powered configuration drift detection steps in. By learning your baseline, monitoring deviations, and flagging risky deltas across vendors, it turns chaos into clarity. In this post, we’ll explore how AI can catch config drift before it becomes a breach, how to apply it in multi-vendor networks, and why old-school scripts no longer cut it. 📌 Table of Contents Why Config Drift Happens More Than You Think Real-World Risks of Unchecked Drift How AI Detects Drift ...