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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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Cybersecurity Researchers Uncover Flaw in Google AI Coding Tool

Cybersecurity researchers from Pillar Security this week revealed how a prompt injection inserted into a GitHub repository was used to gain Editor-level access to an internal Google Cloud project using a flaw in the command line interface (CLI) of an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that Google provides. Dan Lisichkin, a cybersecurity researcher for Pillar […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 28, 2026
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Sonar AI Agent Discovers Vulnerabilities Hidden in Business Logic Workflows

Sonar today made available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to discover vulnerabilities and business logic flaws that pose the greatest risk to an organization should they be exploited. The SonarQube Hunter Agent first analyzes an entire codebase to find three categories of flaws: broken access control, business-logic vulnerabilities, and authentication or session-management issues. Satinder […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 27, 2026
Blogs

Harness Unfurls Source Code Repository Alternative to GitHub

Harness today launched a code repository service that is specifically designed for DevOps teams that are relying on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to generate code. Martin Reynolds, Field CTO for Harness, said the Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review service provides an alternative to existing GitHub source code repositories that were not designed […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 27, 2026
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Tricentis Preps Wave of Additional AI Testing Capabilities

Tricentis is providing early access to multiple artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that it is gearing up to roll out later this year via a Tricentis Transform initiative, including an autonomous AI agent, dubbed Aida, that explores web and Windows desktop applications to surface defects, weaknesses and other potential gaps without requiring DevSecOps teams to create […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 26, 2026
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Ten 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 · Aug 24, 2026
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Harness Adds AI Agents to Automate DevSecOps Workflows at Machine Speed

Harness today added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents and a virtual patching capability to its portfolio to automate DevSecOps workflows at a time when the number of vulnerabilities being discovered in code continues to exponentially increase. The AI agents include one that has been added to the static application security testing (SAST) tool that Harness […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 19, 2026
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Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries

Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and expanded evaluation triggers. Alison Sickelka, vice president of product for Cloudsmith, said these additions to the platform will make it simpler to prevent […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 18, 2026
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Ten 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 · Aug 17, 2026
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Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data

Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 13, 2026
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ProjectDiscovery Brings Open Source AI Testing to Vulnerability Discovery

ProjectDiscovery has made available an autonomous security testing platform that leverages an open source artificial intelligence (AI) testing framework to detect and validate vulnerabilities at a lower total cost. Company CEO Rishi Sharma said version 1.0 of the Neo platform is also available via a cloud service that makes it possible for DevSecOps teams to […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 13, 2026
Video Interviews

The Verification Gap Behind Every AI-Generated Release

Sauce Labs CEO Prince Kohli joins Mike Vizard to unpack why AI code generation is racing ahead of testing — and why 80 percent of organizations have already traced a production incident back to AI-generated code.

Mike Vizard · Aug 12, 2026
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Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code

A survey of 400 business and engineering executives finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or customer-impacting defect to code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the past 12 months. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Sauce Labs, a provider of an application testing platform, the survey finds 83% of respondents work […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 12, 2026
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Ten 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 · Aug 10, 2026
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HackerOne Extends Platform Reach to Remediate Source Code Vulnerabilities

HackerOne has added a remediation capability to its H1 Platform that reduces the amount of time required to remediate validated vulnerabilities and other weaknesses affecting specific lines of source code. Nidhi Aggarwal, chief product officer for HackerOne, said H1 Remediation combines artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourced research to identify the root cause of issues that […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 7, 2026
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AWS Extends DevSecOps Reach to AI Coding Tools from Anthropic and OpenAI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at the Black Hat USA conference revealed it is working with both Anthropic and OpenAI to integrate their respective coding tools with a service it has developed that makes available artificial intelligence (AI) agents to help application developers write more secure code. Launched earlier this year, the AWS Continuum […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 6, 2026
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AWS Adds Agentic Workspace to Kiro AI Coding Tool

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added an open source workspace for its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that enables application developers to asynchronously assign tasks to an AI agent that is capable of autonomously performing tasks, such as testing code as it is created, in a way that maintains context across multiple sessions. […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 5, 2026
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RapidFort Extends Open Source Software Security Reach to Runtime Environments

RapidFort today at the Black Hat USA conference announced it has extended its ability to secure open source software to the runtimes that DevOps teams deploy in production environments. Michael Wood, chief marketing officer for RapidFort, said the RapidFort Runtime platform makes it possible to now monitor open source software deployed within a container image […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 4, 2026
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Ten 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 · Aug 3, 2026
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Tricentis Acquires Tabnine to Gain Knowledge Graph for AI Testing Agents

Tricentis today revealed it is acquiring Tabnine to gain access to a knowledge graph that will be used to provide context to AI agents that have been trained to automate a range of testing tasks. Once the acquisition is complete, Tricentis plans to integrate the knowledge graph developed by Tabnine, dubbed the Enterprise Context Engine, […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 30, 2026
Video Interviews

AI Code Generation Raises New Quality Risks

Mladen Lazic, CTO of Scopic, joins Mike Vizard to explain why AI-generated code is outpacing review capacity — and why independent QA agents that never see the source code are becoming essential.

Mike Vizard · Jul 29, 2026