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Mike Vizard

Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.

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Blogs

Survey Traces Large Amount of Breaches Back to Vulnerable Code

A survey of 1,519 application security stakeholders finds nearly all (98%) work for organizations that have experienced a security breach attributable to vulnerable code, with 81% acknowledging their organization has shipped code with known vulnerabilities into production environments. Conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Checkmarx, the survey also finds more than a quarter of organizations […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 14, 2025
AI

Sonar Surfaces Multiple Caveats When Relying on LLMs to Write Code

New SonarSource research shows LLMs like GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama-3.2 produce highly functional yet risky code — with frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, hard-coded credentials, and messy “code smells” that raise long-term tech debt.

Mike Vizard · Aug 13, 2025
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Multiple Mobile Application Release Management Headaches

A survey of 300 mobile engineers in the U.S and the United Kingdom (UK) working for organizations with 500 to 10,000 employees finds, on average, respondents are spending five hours per release on low-value tasks involving manual steps, coordination issues and approval bottlenecks, translating into 130 wasted engineering hours annually per developer. Published by Runway, […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 12, 2025
Blogs

Minimus Adds VEX Support to Managed Hardened Images Service

Minimus has extended its managed service for providing application developers with hardened images to include support for the Vulnerability Exploittability eXchange (VEX) format used to share data across multiple application security tools and platforms along with hardened Helm charts for securely deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, Minimus has added compliance dashboards and views, and […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 11, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Our DevOps jobs report this week highlights industry roles at Sharetec, CodeRabbit , Block, Inc., Gerber Life Insurance and Optisources.

Mike Vizard · Aug 11, 2025
AI

Black Duck Software Extends AI Reach to IDE to Better Secure Code

Black Duck Software, this week at the Black Hat USA 2025 conference, revealed it has now integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) tool for securing software, dubbed Black Duck Assist, into the company’s plug-in for integrated developer environments (IDEs).

Mike Vizard · Aug 7, 2025
AI

PlayerZero Adds Ability to Simulate Code to AI Platform

PlayerZero has extended its namesake platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze codebases by adding the ability to simulate code created using generative AI coding tools. Fresh off raising an additional $15 million in funding, PlayerZero CEO Animesh Koratana said CodeSim makes it possible to predict how that code will impact a codebase without […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 6, 2025
Video Interviews

Context on Tap: How MCP Servers Bridge AI Agents and DevOps Pipelines

Large language models can draft code or move artifacts, but without situational awareness they still trip over the basics. Cloudsmith CEO Glenn Weinstein tells Mike Vizard why a new piece of plumbing—the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—is quickly becoming table stakes. Think of MCP as a receptionist for AI agents: it answers questions like “Which […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 4, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five job postings shared this week include remote DevOps roles at Hims and Hers Health, Credit Acceptance and Atlassian.

Mike Vizard · Aug 4, 2025
AI

BMC Extends Scope and Reach of DevOps Mainframe Workflows

BMC has extended its DevOps analytics tool for mainframe environments, dubbed BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise, to now be able to collect Git usage data to make it simpler to identify bottlenecks and other workflow issues in addition to making available in beta a BMC AMI Assistant tool that enables IT teams to via a natural language interface chat with a generative artificial intelligence that BMC has trained to help optimize operations.

Mike Vizard · Jul 31, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

From SRE to senior DevOps positions, check out our weekly DevOps job opportunities here, including roles this week at PMAT and Alembic.

Mike Vizard · Jul 28, 2025
Blogs

Survey Sees Argo CD Starting to Gain Significant Traction

A survey of 185 software development professionals who have adopted the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform finds that 97% are now using it in production environments, with 60% running Argo for more than two years.

Mike Vizard · Jul 25, 2025
AI

Survey Surfaces Widespread Adoption of AI to Build Software

A survey of 300 IT leaders finds 90% are leading teams that use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to develop applications, with 71% reporting they will not consider hiring application developers who lack AI and machine learning experience.

Mike Vizard · Jul 24, 2025
Blogs

ControlMonkey Adds Dashboard to Manage IaC Risk

ControlMonkey today added a risk index dashboard to its automation platform for managing code created using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools based on open-source Terraform software.

Mike Vizard · Jul 24, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 21, 2025