IT as Code
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS ...
IBM Unveils Simulation Tool for Attacking SCM Platforms
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, IBM today revealed it is making available a toolkit for launching simulated attacks against source code management (SCM) platforms. The toolkit was launched as a ...
Tech Workers Struggle With Hybrid IT Complexity
Brandon Shopp | | cloud, digital transformation, Hybrid IT, network complexity, on-premises infrastructureConfidence levels among IT workers have plummeted as tech teams’ jobs have become more complex. The reasons behind IT worker angst are unprecedented, signaling a shift paralleling other post-pandemic industries. Running applications ...
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to ...
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at ...
Palo Alto Networks Extends Checkov Tool for Securing Infrastructure
Palo Alto Networks has added support for GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, CircleCI and Argo Workflows to Checkov, an open source tool that scans programmatically provisioned infrastructure for misconfigurations. Guy Eisenkot, senior director ...
Techstrong TV: The Future of Cloud Security
Alan Shimel | | automated code, Check Point CloudGuard, Check Point Software, cloud, Cloud Security, SpectralCheck Point Software has announced the acquisition of Spectral, an Israeli start up specialized in automated code security. This further reinforces Check Point's commitment to cloud security. The video is above and ...
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it's not uncommon for engineers to refer to different "layers." Perhaps you're working with protocols at the "networking layer" or evaluating a solution that sits at "Layer ...
A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies
For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by ...
API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh: What’s the Difference?
In the average microservices architecture, app programs trade the stability and rigidity a call stack offers for the network’s flexibility. Consequently, latency, security and traceability issues that were previously absent become a ...
JFrog Aligns With AWS to Improve Cloud Application Security
At the AWS re:Inforce event this week, JFrog announced it integrated its JFrog Xray software composition analysis tool with AWS Security Hub, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that alerts IT ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
