I’ve been immersed in cybersecurity for a good stretch, since it was known as just “infosec” and “security.” Over time, I’ve had opportunities to work with some brilliant minds and young-gun “hackers” (I’m not a name dropper, so I’ll refrain from using them as SEO-bait). I’ve watched attackers transition from being basement-dwelling teenagers to organized intruders to APTs. At […]
Rugged DevOps: Making Invisible Things Visible
You might already know them from theagileadmin.com, but let me introduce you to two of the leading minds in the Rugged DevOps movement: James Wickett and Ernest Mueller. Both James and Ernest are active leaders in the DevOps space, in addition to helping organize events such as DevOpsDays Austin and LASCON. Our conversation covered a […]
Carwash Success: New DHS Privacy Policy Requires Carwash for all Mobile Applications
Carwash is a Rugged DevOps SaaS solution developed by Blackstone Technology Group and the Department of Homeland Security. The new DHS policy requires all mobile application developers to use Carwash when proposing, developing, implementing or changing any OHS Mobile Apps Arlington, VA (PRWEB) April 13, 2016 Blackstone Technology Group (Blackstone), in partnership with the Department […]
The Cost of Not Building with Security in Mind
The unfortunate reality for today’s organizations is the fact that a security breach is bound to happen. Major breaches are happening with alarming frequency and fill the news headlines almost daily. And behind many of these major breach stories is a software vulnerability that has been exploited. There is a silver lining, however. Addressing security […]
Intuit’s DevSecOps: War Games and Culture Hacking
If you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number of important topics including internal war games, culture hacking, gamification of Rugged DevOps and starting as a small team. There are 100 gold […]
Murphy’s DevOps: 7 Habits of Rugged DevOps
Attendees of Rugged DevOps Connect at RSA packed Moscone West’s second floor Feb. 29 to immerse themselves in security. Among the presenters of the daylong event was Forrester analyst Amy DeMartine, who provided a tutorial on how security, developers and operations folks can work together better in the new DevOps world. Through a slide show, DeMartine […]
How DevOps Prevents DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most pervasive and difficult attacks to prevent. The attack uses many distributed endpoints and/or systems to flood a web domain, application or service with excessive service requests or application calls. There are limits to the amount of bandwidth or the number of service requests or […]
Murphy’s DevOps: Is Security Causing Things to Go Wrong?
“Rugged DevOps,” “DevSecOps”—am I missing any? About the only thing more abundant than the volume of terms emerging to describe different facets of how security supports DevOps are the number of vendors now claiming to provide products and services that “solve” related security problems. There have been some interesting offerings we’ve seen emerge at this […]
John Willis, Jez Humble & Josh Corman Headline DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps at RSA
A week from today, February 29th, we gather in San Fransisco for DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @ RSA Conference at the Moscone Center. This is the 2nd year we are holding this conference and the line up is I think even stronger than last year! I am really happy and proud of the group that […]
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days. This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was […]