Fostering Better Collaboration Between ITOps and Security Teams Should Be Top Priority
Last year, the average business lost $13 million to cybercrime, which is 12% more than in 2017 and 72% more than in 2014. When Tanium recently asked IT decision makers how they planned to reduce that risk in 2020, they reported making multi-million dollar investments across operations and security. Over the last two years, they […]
COVID-19, the New Normal and the Indisputable Importance of Mobile App Security
As the United States emerges from COVID-19 lockdown, it’s not back to business as usual. COVID-19 remains a very serious risk, and until a vaccine or treatment arrives, we will all need to remain vigilant. Further, it’s also certain that the new normal post-COVID-19 world represents a fundamental transformation in how businesses operate, with mobile […]
Work from Home: Changing Enterprise Risk and Careers
In recent weeks, there have been a slew of organizations announcing that their work from home policies will be extended through the end of the year such as is the case with Google and Facebook, or perhaps indefinitely such as Twitter and Square. It’s good news to many technology workers who, according to a recent […]
DevOps Agility Shines in the Midst of a Pandemic
As a career developer and now a chief technology officer, I am experiencing firsthand how COVID-19 has forced us all into new ways of working. I’m also aware that these new ways may be with us for a while. Last month Gartner announced that 74% of companies intend to shift some percentage of their workforce […]
Working with SAFe and Microservices: Learnings from Developers
As developers, the prospect of working for a big company might bring about feelings of oppression, rather than opportunity. Envisaging endless team syncs, pointless meetings and processes wrapped up in bureaucracy inside a set of procedures. It’s easy to imagine why some are put off. For many though, the fear comes from the thought of […]
Who’s Responsible for Security? Apparently, It Depends
More than 10 years after organizations began implementing DevOps, responsibility for security still resembles the proverbial chicken and egg dilemma. GitLab’s 2020 Global DevSecOps Survey asked developers, security team members, operations pros and testers about sole responsibility for security in their organizations. About 28% of developers, 33% of security teams, 21% of ops pros and 23% […]
6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020
Conferences and events make up to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual […]
Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Celebrating the Tech Community
During these crazy times, I can’t help but wonder, how would I even survive being on lockdown for so long if it wasn’t for technology? It is the one thing that has kept most of us sane while stuck inside during this crisis. Apps like Instacart and Zoom have been a hit during the pandemic. […]
Surviving Through the New Normal
As enterprises move from the first phase of the pandemic to the reopening phase, they’re going to have to determine what tech investments going forward will provide the most value in the their new normal. Emad Georgy, founder and CTO at consulting firm Georgy Technology Leadership, said that while overall tech spending will remain down, […]
Driverless Cars May Become an Integral Part of Our Lives Soon
If you live in the downtown areas of Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami or other AV hot spots, you’ve probably been missing the Ford Fusion Hybrids with the bulky lidar sensors in your neighborhoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many job cuts as well as work from home orders from the government, and this has […]
Falling Back in Love with Data Pipelines
It’s Spring 2020, and even in challenging and unprecedented times, love continues to bloom. That said, data pipelines are never far from my thoughts and the confluence of those two things got me thinking about data engineers and how their initial love for creating data pipelines often turns to loathing. Data pipelines are the backbone […]
LogicMonitor Releases IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Study
Although 99.999% availability may be IT’s ambition, it’s far from reality. In March 2019, Google’s Gmail experienced a 4.5-hour global outage. In the same month, Facebook suffered a 14-hour outage, its most massive outage to date, crippling app-accessibility worldwide. Downtime and low availability will likely occur to all systems eventually, especially when introducing code changes. […]
Digital Transformation Is More About a BizDevOps Culture than Tech
Digital transformation is top of mind for every organization now. The problem is, many of these organizations take the phrase too literally and think it’s all about adopting new technical capabilities and tools. Tech is certainly a part of it, but real digital transformation is also about changing company cultures and ways of working. Tech […]
How 200 CIOs Responded to a Fully Remote Economy
The COVID-19 global pandemic has ushered a significant priority shift for the digital workplace. As development teams become completely remote, executive priorities are rapidly adapting to meet the gravity of these unanticipated times. But, were IT leaders prepared for such a dramatic shift? What are they doing to evolve? To answer these tough questions, let’s […]
Incident Resolution for Remote Teams
People working in IT support and incident management right now are faced with unusual difficulties supporting large remote workforces and managing unpredictable workloads. On Reddit, system admins and other IT pros are bemoaning the hiccups and hassles of working in isolation while trying to resolve issues and maintain high SLAs. You can’t go grab your […]
Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform
As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
Open Source Vulnerabilities Were Up 50% in 2019 — How Will It Impact Software Development in 2020?
Open source vulnerabilities have been on the rise in recent years, but 2019 was truly one for the record books with a spike of nearly 50% over the previous year. According to the recently released State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities report by the WhiteSource research team, the number of vulnerabilities jumped from 4,100 in […]
The Way Forward: Digital Resiliency Wins
As we wrote in Digital Transformation: Digitally Resilient Organizations, digitally resilient enterprises have built themselves business-technology platforms that are elastic, agile and can correctly position themselves to securely meet current business demands. These enterprises are also constantly learning from their data and adjusting as markets, workforce and customers demand. These enterprises have also eliminated the […]
Tips For Managing Development Teams Remotely During Coronavirus
Thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, around a third of the world’s population is on lockdown in their homes, which means a huge number of businesses are currently trying to navigate remote working solutions. Trying to collaborate on software development is difficult at the best of times when your team is all in the same […]
The Key to Embracing DevOps: A Real-Time Roadmap
While the term “DevOps” has become somewhat of an industry buzzword, it represents an important shift in the way teams think about planning, building and deploying software. Drawing its inspiration from the Agile movement, DevOps extends many of Agile’s core principles beyond development to how teams deploy, monitor and inform their next round of product […]
Business Conferences Amid the COVID Crisis
We’re all hunkered down in quarantine, so major trade shows have been cancelled. Virtual events will get us through this patch–but what comes next? It is said that in times of crisis, we adapt. We modify our behavior and we persevere. And when the immediate crisis has subsided, we look at what worked, and often […]
2020 DevSecOps Community Survey: Of 5,045 Developers, Guess How Many Are Happy?
We just released the seventh annual DevSecOps Community Survey. We captured the pulse of over 5,000 developers in 102 countries. What we learned about trends in DevSecOps will surprise you—especially the parts about how happiness influences company culture, software security and business competitiveness. When we tallied up the results we quickly saw some interesting correlations. […]