IT as Code
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 ...
How 5G Will Change the Public Cloud as We Know It
When it comes to realizing the promise of 5G, we’re still a few years away. Under the hood, though, the rollout of 5G infrastructure and the new applications 5G will enable—from AR ...
Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding ...
Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four ...
Atlassian Bitbucket CI/CD Cloud Service Aims for the Enterprise
Atlassian today outlined its strategy to increase the appeal of the Bitbucket continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) cloud service among enterprise IT organizations. Atlassian said it plans to focus on four core pillars: ...
Scribe Security Unveils Pair of Tools to Secure Software Supply Chains
Scribe Security today unveiled a Scribe Integrity tool that scans software artifacts to make sure they comply with IT organizations' security policies before they are integrated into an application. The Scribe Integrity ...
