Google Extends Reach of AI Coding Tools to Third-Party DevOps Platforms
Google today previewed a set of extensions to its artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools that are designed to be integrated directly within a development environment.
How to Craft a Cloud Testing Strategy
Before crafting a cloud testing strategy, you should determine the top strategies, and testing goals, and devise a plan accordingly.
How an Effective AppSec Program Shifts Your Teams From Fixing to Building
Development teams are under growing pressure to build cutting-edge applications with shorter development lifecycles. However, they are often slowed down by the growing burden of fixing security vulnerabilities. Ineffective application security processes mean these teams can spend more time firefighting than building, diverting focus from their primary objective: Delivering innovative, high-performance software. Yet, healthy security […]
Automating Security with Palo Alto
Today, automation is more important than ever before. Integrating security and automation early into the SDLC decreases the risk of potential cyberattacks, provides early and relevant feedback, reduces time to market and improves product quality. In this TechStrong TV episode, Taylor Smith, senior product marketing manager with Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, discussed the need […]
Managing Cloud Security with Check Point Software
Managing cloud security across multiple cloud providers, private cloud, AppSec and software as infrastructure, is highly complex. In this TechStrong TV episode, TJ Gonen, head of cloud security product line at Check Point Software, advises a security strategy that meets the challenges of cloud environments and cloud-native software architectures, and DevOps toolchains. Information about Check […]
Data Needs and Challenges with CData
The data businesses and applications need are everywhere and access through a multitude of technical interfaces, including APIs, database queries, data layers like ODBC, cloud services and SaaS applications (to name a few). In this episode of TechStrong TV, Jerod Johnson, technical evangelist at CData, joins Mitch Ashley to discuss the challenges of meeting the […]
DevOps Chat: Maximizing the Benefits of DevSecOps
When discussing security in DevOps, we often focus on the security tools instead of the DevSecOps process itself. In this DevOps Chat, ZeroNorth CEO John Worrall takes us to the root of “why” DevSecOps, focusing on the business benefit, gain and measurement of what we seek to accomplish through DevSecOps. John advocates we concentrate on […]
Web Isolation and Secure Web Gateways with Menlo Security
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many enterprises have implemented remote work policies to monitor network traffic and protect sensitive data. Organizations have been adjusting and adopting new practices and technologies to improve data security across cloud-based environments. In this episode of TechStrong TV, Nick Edwards, vice president of product management at Menlo Security, joins Mitch Ashley […]
Application Security and Continuous Observability with DeepFactor
Today’s modern applications are becoming increasingly complex and released more frequently than ever before, therefore increasing security, privacy and compliance risks. How do you identify the security and compliance risks hidden in your application before you deploy it to production? Continuous observability enables DevSecOps teams to observe millions of application telemetry events and find runtime […]
Approaching Security as a Fundamental Element of Software Development
How we really integrate security into the SDLC? What are some of the best practices around secure software? In this episode of TechStrong TV, Jill Britton, director of compliance, and Stuart Foster, product manager at Perforce, joined us to discuss how to improve application security by making security a fundamental component of the software creation […]
The Use of Open Source in Mainframe Environments
Open source is a critical element of IT computing. As companies modernize the mainframe and start to add components to mainframe applications that are off the mainframe, they should to be able to build, test and deploy the components of that application that go across the mainframe and different computing platforms in the same manner. […]
Managing Data Risk in 2021
You can’t protect your data if you don’t know where it is stored. The first thing to consider when creating a risk-based approach to data protection is the ability to identify and prioritize data, and control who has access to it. But, how do we do this? How do we prioritize data? In this TechStrong […]
Shifting Left and Static Code Analysis with Perforce
Perforce Product Manager Stuart Foster, and Evangelist Steve Howard, join Mitch Ashley to discuss the importance of creating security software from the beginning of the development process. We discuss shift left, SAST, source code scanning and other pursuits towards this goal. The video is immediately below, followed by the transcript of the conversation. Enjoy! Transcript […]
DevOps Chats: Canary Deploys Using Istio, with Autodesk
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions and beyond at risk. How do you […]
DevOps Chats: The Future of Farming with Aerobotics
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Never underestimate an entrepreneur looking to solve a real-world problem. Aerobotics is bringing drones, imagery, mapping, containers, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, data pipeline processing and machine learning to agriculture. Sounds interesting, right? Aerobotics uses aerial drones and sophisticated image processing to help growers manage yield, pest and disease in their farms through artificial […]
DevOps Chat: ChefConf Update with Chef’s Nell Shamrell-Harrington
2019 is shaping up as a “coming home” year for Chef. After recently reaffirming its commitment to an open source strategy, the company is gearing up for the best ChefConf yet. ChefConf, scheduled for May 20-23, is coming home to Seattle and many of the Chef favorites including Adam Jacobs, John Willis and more will be […]
DevOps Chat: Performance Testing with SmartBear’s Keshav Vasudevan
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Keshav Vasudevan, product manager for performance testing at SmartBear. Keshav talks about the move to “end-to-end DevOps,” the importance of shifting left with testing and the latest state-of-the-art in performance and load testing with SmartBear. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately below, followed by the transcript of […]
DevOps Chat: AppSec and DevSecOps with Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams
I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well-respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security, the company he co-founded and how it is helping. In this DevOps Chat, […]
DevOps Chat: Repos and Nexus Firewall Access, with Sonatype
There are really only two repositories of any scale for software components today: the Nexus repo managed by Sonatype and the Artifactory artifact repo managed by JFrog. Up until now they were separate and apart, and working with one was independent of another. In a big move toward keeping DevOps open and secure, the Sonatype […]
DevOps Chat: SRE w/ Stig Sorensen of Bloomberg
Many people say that site reliability engineering (SRE) is “putting the Ops in DevOps.” In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Stig Sorensen of Bloomberg’s SRE team. Stig tells us how SRE is helping Bloomberg keep pace with the fast moving world of news and information. Great discussion with a real-life practitioner about how SRE […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good DevOps.com story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
DevOps Chat: State of DevOps Report 2017, Nigel Kersten, Puppet
The results and analysis of the State of DevOps Report 2017 report are due out in early June. just in time for the DevOps Enterprise Summit London June 5-6. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Puppet exec and one of our favorite interviews, Nigel Kersten. Of course, Nigel and the folks over at Puppet […]
DevOps Chat: Why Real Transformation Starts with Culture, Bryson Koehler and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, IBM
While culture is of the utmost importance to enable digital transformation, there are many other milestones in a successful DevOps journey. In this DevOps Chat, join Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com, as he hosts Bryson Koehler, GM, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Senior Software Engineer/IT Architect at IBM. […]