Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AI, the New Hero of Software Development … or Anti-Hero?

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a hero or an anti-hero in software development, depending on your implementation approach. According to the 2024 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Report, AI adoption shows promise with 75% of respondents reporting positive productivity gains, but also reveals unexpected challenges, including a 7.2% reduction in software delivery stability. The key […]

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AWS re:Inforce roundup 2025: top announcements

At AWS re:Inforce 2025 (June 16-18, Philadelphia), AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog delivered the keynote address, announcing new security innovations. Throughout the event, AWS announced additional security capabilities focused on simplifying security at scale and enabling organizations to build more resilient applications in the cloud. Below is a comprehensive roundup […]

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Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with expanded coverage for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), building upon the capabilities we introduced in our AWS re:Invent 2024 announcement of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security. Security teams managing Kubernetes workloads often struggle to detect […]

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Unify your security with the new AWS Security Hub for risk prioritization and response at scale (Preview)

AWS Security Hub has been a central place for you to view and aggregate security alerts and compliance status across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. Today, we are announcing the preview release of the new AWS Security Hub which offers additional correlation, contextualization, and visualization capabilities. This helps you prioritize critical security issues, respond at scale […]

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AWS Backup adds new Multi-party approval for logically air-gapped vaults

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of a new capability that integrates AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults with Multi-party approval to provide access to your backups even when your AWS account is inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services […]

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New AWS Shield feature discovers network security issues before they can be exploited (Preview)

Today, I’m happy to announce AWS Shield network security director (preview), a capability that simplifies identification of configuration issues related to threats such as SQL injections and distributed denial of service (DDoS) events, and proposes remediations. This feature identifies and analyzes network resources, connections, and configurations. It compares them against AWS best practices to create […]

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Merging Business Logic and DevOps

Bridging the gap between DevOps and business logic means product and application owners should map out business outcomes and then embed them in DevOps pipelines. Source: DevOps.com

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How to Embed Security Into Enterprise DevOps Pipelines

DevOps without security is just speed with risk. Now is the time to shift left, automate smart and build security into everything.  Source: DevOps.com

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS WAF, AWS Control Tower, and more (June 16, 2025)

Today marks the start of AWS re:Inforce 2025, where security professionals are gathering for three days of technical learning sessions, workshops, and demonstrations. This security-focused conference brings together AWS security specialists who build and maintain the services that organizations rely on for their cloud security needs. AWS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Amy Herzog will […]

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From Automation to Orchestration: The Key to Digital Success

Digital transformation continues to be a key focus for many organizations, and this usually means the automation of processes and data. At its core, automation is meant to simplify and streamline business operations. However, if not implemented correctly, it can introduce complexity, risk and fragmentation. The proliferation of automation tools, combined with the rapid growth […]

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