Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security

The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets. As such, 83% of organizations recognize security […]

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Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) provide scalable and consistent provisioning of AWS resources (for example, compute infrastructure, monitoring tools, databases, and more). We’ve heard from many customers that they’d like to benefit from the same consistency and scalability when provisioning resources from AWS Partner Network (APN) members, third-party vendors, and open-source […]

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Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management

Click to read Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management The post Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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Linux Foundation Makes Available Software Manifest Tool

The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange (SPDX) file format it curates. Backed by more than 20 organizations, SPDX is an effort to standardize the way metadata describing the contents of a software package is described. The […]

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Google Proposes SLSA Framework to Secure Software Supply Chains

Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is based on an internal framework, known as binary authorization for Borg, that the company […]

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Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging

App stability is a fundamental part of every app experience. Broadly speaking, app stability is a measurement of the number of total app sessions that are crash-free or the percentage of daily active users who do not experience an error. End users have little patience for apps that crash or fail. Every application, whether it’s […]

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Automatic Right-Sizing is Magical Thinking

Some months ago, AWS evangelist Corey Quinn wrote a short blog post titled “Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense.” As usual, Corey was spot-on in his takedown of cost-reduction-magic-AI industry hype. But his piece only scratches the surface. I would take the argument a step farther and say that anyone who tells you they can […]

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Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil

The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey of 300 SREs conducted by Catchpoint, a provider of an IT monitoring platform, in collaboration with VMware and the DevOps Institute suggests that […]

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No More Hot Potato: How Collaboration is Key in Application Security

Technology is accelerating at an unprecedented rate and companies with little digital footprint or experience in application security are struggling to keep up. With more and more breaches and vulnerabilities being detected in applications, people are shifting blame like it’s a game of hot potato. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With Shifting […]

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Does it Matter That We’re Still Working in Silos?

Seventy-two percent of business leaders believe that cross-departmental working at the enterprise level benefits their employees’ experience and engagement. However, 68% of these same organizations admit to working in silos—the complete opposite of collaboration. So, there seems to be a conundrum. We know that working in silos is detrimental to our employees, customers and the […]

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