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The Dog Ate My DevOps Dozen
As the new Techstrong Group team member, I wasn’t familiar with the DevOps Dozen awards. The basics: It’s a cool program that recognizes excellence across a number of categories in the DevOps world. The winners will be announced during our Predict 23 conference on January 12. I have to tell you that the submission process was […]
Nov 1, 2022 · 3 minAll articles by Mike Rothman
Showing 1–5DevOps World 2022: Developer and Security Links Protect Your Supply Chain
Ever since the SolarWinds attack back in December 2020, software supply chain attacks have been top-of-mind for any company that builds software. The idea of endangering not just your organization by being attacked but also your customers really sharpens your focus. Another complicating factor is that applications use a combination of open software components and […]
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to the SurveyMonkey account so I could check on the status of our various in-flight research projects. I also realize I have to learn […]
Why Your DevSecOps Initiative Will Fail
When you’ve been in and around the security industry for long enough, you get used to the industry hype machine turning a cool innovation into, uh, meh. This hype cycle starts at the RSA conference each year, and folks like me look for new hot stuff on the show floor. For perhaps only the second […]
Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes: Leaky S3 Buckets
As we get ready to discuss our list of the Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes in the upcoming devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinar, we wanted to provide a preview of the type and depth of information we’ll be discussing. Since the most-talked about, and likely the most vulnerable, aspect of AWS security is inevitably those leaky S3 buckets, […]