Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Palo Alto Networks Extends Checkov Tool for Securing Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks has added support for GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, CircleCI and Argo Workflows to Checkov, an open source tool that scans programmatically provisioned infrastructure for misconfigurations. Guy Eisenkot, senior director of product at Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, said the goal is to make it easier to secure configurations created […]

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The Future of Cloud Security – TJ Gonen, Check Point Software

Interviewer:                Hey everyone, welcome to another segment here on Techstrong TV. I’m really happy to have as our guest on this segment TJ Gonen, and hoping I pronounce that right, from Check Point. Hey TJ, welcome to Techstrong TV.   Interviewee:                Yeah, and thank you very much for having us.   Interviewer:                […]

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Why App Dependency Mapping Is Critical for Cloud Migration

Software dependencies are a crucial part of efficient, component-based programming. At the same time, they can be a hurdle for fast-paced agile development teams, because they can make it more difficult to deploy, update and migrate software applications. Many applications have dozens or hundreds of dependencies, each with its own transitive dependencies, making the problem […]

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ShiftLeft Appoints Prevention-First, Cybersecurity Visionary and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Pioneer Stuart McClure as Chief Executive Officer

 Serial Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Leader and Industry Veteran joins ShiftLeft to Drive Growth and AI/ML Innovation Globally Santa Clara, CA, August 2, 2022 —  ShiftLeft, a disruptor and innovator in the world of DevSecOps and NextGen SAST and SCA, today named Stuart McClure as CEO. With more than 30 years in security, vulnerabilities and prevention technology, […]

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Three Key Steps To Going Multi-Cloud

Are you considering a multi-cloud strategy for your organization? Getting this sequence of foundational steps right can make a huge difference, both economically and performance-wise. FinOps or a cloud resource optimization solution like Archera, for example, is often brought into the picture after a company has already embarked on a multi-cloud approach and is knee-deep […]

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What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?

Working in the software field, it’s not uncommon for engineers to refer to different “layers.” Perhaps you’re working with protocols at the “networking layer” or evaluating a solution that sits at “Layer 4” or “Layer 7.” Although these concepts are obvious to some, not everyone knows what these layers refer to. To get you up […]

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A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies

For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by microservices-based apps and monoliths become relics of the past. In 2021 alone, companies spent $410.9 billion on public cloud services, and Gartner expects […]

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API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh: What’s the Difference?

In the average microservices architecture, app programs trade the stability and rigidity a call stack offers for the network’s flexibility. Consequently, latency, security and traceability issues that were previously absent become a service call concern.  Service mesh is the resulting solution to eliminate these issues and allow developers to focus on more important business solutions. […]

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Continuous Delivery Advances Come at Cost of Testing

A survey of 820 application development professionals conducted by Applitools, a provider of an application testing platform, found well over a third of respondents (38%) working for organizations that now deploy daily changes to production environments. The challenge is that application testing is not able to keep pace with that rate of continuous deployment (CD). […]

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JFrog Aligns With AWS to Improve Cloud Application Security

At the AWS re:Inforce event this week, JFrog announced it integrated its JFrog Xray software composition analysis tool with AWS Security Hub, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that alerts IT teams whenever a security issue is detected. In addition, JFrog also announced it is participating in a preview of an AWS Marketplace Vendor […]

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