Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Session Tokens Vs. JWTs: Choosing Your Session Management Solution

In the world of authentication today, session tokens and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are the two most popular ways to manage user sessions and maintain a user’s authentication state between calls. Impassioned debates pit these solutions against each other, but each has pros and cons worth evaluating. Depending on the needs of your application, it’s […]

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Where Does Your Data Go?

One of the most interesting developments in security and compliance in recent years is the ability to follow a piece of data through an application from input to consumption and see each bit that touches it. For me, the reason this is so interesting is that it allows postmortems to actually determine exactly what was […]

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Three Ways to Speed up SAST

In modern, continuous software development life cycle (SDLC) processes, when code is written and before it’s committed to the repository, it’s run through testing, which may include unit testing, regression testing or static application security testing (SAST). The benefit of SAST for DevSecOps is the real-time feedback it provides developers as they create and make […]

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SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck

The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to succeed (52%) than were attacks on cloud, endpoint and on-premises data.  But there are plenty of reasons beyond the threat of ransomware to […]

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Introduction to Cloud Custodian

Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […]

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Cosmonic Unveils PaaS for Building Wasm Applications

Cosmonic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building cloud-native applications using Web Assembly. Based on the open source wasmCloud distributed computing environment now being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Cosmonic PaaS gives developers access to a lightweight environment that […]

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Why You Should Consolidate Your IAM

It’s not often you can get a win that makes your IT processes easier while simultaneously improving your cybersecurity. In fact, oftentimes making improvements in one area (for example, improving IT processes) comes at the cost of the other (cybersecurity). But there’s one area, in particular, where these improvements aren’t mutually exclusive: Identity and access […]

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Labor Crunch

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OpsVerse Adds Backstage Catalogue to Managed DevOps Service

OpsVerse this week added an open source Backstage catalogue software for building developer portals to its managed DevOps service. Originally developed by Spotify, Backstage makes it possible to centralize the management of multiple services that are being built and maintained by multiple developer teams. Backstage is now being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud […]

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When the Cloud and the Edge Are the Same Thing

Edge computing remains a growing and exciting new architecture for enterprises across multiple industries. Distributing computing power across a decentralized network gives new opportunities for AI- and IoT-based applications. Demand is such that edge computing remains a growing and exciting new architecture for enterprises across multiple industries. Distributing computing power across a decentralized network gives […]

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