Depending on your location, you might have noticed a new 5G icon on your cell phone recently. The roll-out of the new 5G mobile network is largely a positive change for consumers and businesses. The fifth generation of cellular networks (hence 5G) purports to be one of the fastest wireless networks ever created. This technology […]
Multi-Cloud Adoption: Time to Rethink Your Identity and Access Management
This may well be the decade that the data center’s reign falls, and multi-clouds prevail. A multi-cloud strategy, which incorporates cloud services from multiple vendors, promises plenty of benefits, including improved resilience and flexibility that makes it easier for enterprises to meet various application and data needs. But, there will also be operational challenges. Expect […]
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […]
Portable Security Policies: A DevSecOps Primer
Protecting critical data and applications is a challenge under any circumstances, but it’s especially daunting when resources reside in the cloud. Most organizations today operate a significant portion of their workloads in the cloud, which adds to the complexity of the security problem—a security team can’t fully control cloud environments but is responsible for securing […]
Simplify DevSecOps with a Zero Trust Approach
There are major cyberattacks and data breaches weekly, if not daily. Each incident is unique in some way, but one element common to almost all successful attacks is trust. Whether it’s a disgruntled employee conducting an insider attack, an attacker infiltrating the network using stolen credentials or an exploit that leverages a third-party vendor or […]
Moving Security Beyond SSH and PKI
SSH (secure shell) is still the most common method of remotely accessing a Linux server, which makes it a common target for attackers attempting to infiltrate corporate networks. While the protocol itself carries a number of advanced security properties, it does allow for human error, opening the door for unwarranted privileged access to sensitive company […]
Zero Trust Is a Key to DevOps Security
Once upon a time, network and endpoint security was a simple matter of us vs. them—and all you had to do is keep unauthorized stuff outside your perimeter from gaining access to devices or data inside your perimeter. It’s not like that anymore, though. BYOD, mobile devices, cloud service, virtual systems and changes in attack […]