Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Platform Engineering: A Strategy for Productivity, Compliance & Security | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Platform engineering has emerged as an essential discipline for empowering application development and DevOps teams to deliver better software faster, while seamlessly addressing security and compliance requirements. In this keynote, Sanjeev Sharma, SVP of Platform Engineering for Dell Technologies, will share how his business delivers a comprehensive, automated platform for its teams. He’ll give an update on their progress and achievements, while addressing the most challenging roadblocks they’ve faced along the way.

Mastering Security Log Management

Security log management provides an organization with a unified and centralized way of collecting, monitoring, and analyzing different security-related activities and events, fostering easier audits and reporting. It offers organizations, the ability to quickly access and analyze logs to understand the scope and impact of security incidents, facilitate regulatory compliance, and enhance visibility and accountability.

How Carrier Management Services Boost Network Efficiency and Security

Network efficiency and security are now critical components for the success of any business As companies scale and embrace digital transformation, managing networks becomes increasingly complex, and protecting them from cyber threats is paramount. Carrier management services (CMS) provide businesses with a streamlined solution to optimize network performance and enhance security, allowing them to focus on innovation without worrying about their network infrastructure.

Unlock the Value of Your Sensitive Data with Differential Privacy, Now Generally Available

The Snowflake AI Data Cloud has democratized data for thousands of customers, removing data silos and powering data sharing and collaboration use cases. Many customers have been able to unlock enormous value from their data with Snowflake, including safely collaborating on sensitive data using Snowflake Data Clean Rooms and Data Governance features. However, some highly sensitive data has remained off-limits due to regulatory requirements and privacy concerns — until now.

How DreamFactory Prevents SQL Injection Attacks

A SQL injection attack is an attempt to modify the syntax of a SQL query executed in conjunction with a user-initiated action within a software application. Some examples of user-initiated actions include searching for a product within an e-commerce catalog, adding a comment to a blog post, and creating a new user account. In each of these scenarios, the user uses a form to submit input (e.g.

How UX can minimize cyber security threats?

Check Point Research found that global weekly attacks rose by 7% in Q1 2023 versus the same quarter last year, with each organization facing an average of 1248 attacks per week. In 2023 researchers noticed that it’s taking organizations an average of 49 days to identify a cyberattack. That’s terrifying, isn’t it? But, what does this mean? Is this a signal that your business needs a foolproof web development strategy to prevent your website from cyberattacks?

How Thrivent Uses Real-Time Data for AI-Driven Fraud Detection

In today’s fast-paced financial services landscape, customers have a shorter attention span than ever. To meet clients’ growing demands for real-time access to information and keep innovating in areas like fraud detection and personalized financial advice, Thrivent needed to overhaul its data infrastructure. With data scattered across siloed legacy systems, diverse tech stacks, and multiple cloud environments, the challenge was a bit daunting. But by adopting Confluent Cloud, Thrivent was able to unify its disparate data systems into a single source of truth.

Subdomain takeover: ignore this vulnerability at your peril

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often described as the address book of the Internet. A and AAAA records map a human-friendly hostname like honeybadger.io to some machine-friendly IP address like 104.198.14.52. Other types of DNS records also exist; in particular, CNAME records are records that map a hostname to some other hostname, thereby delegating IP resolution to the latter.

How to Manage Your API Policies with OPA (Open Policy Agent)

APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps in. OPA provides a unified framework for consistently defining and enforcing policies across microservices, APIs, Kubernetes clusters, and beyond. Consistent policy management is essential for enterprises.

5 Ways Perforce Helps with DORA Regulation Compliance

In January 2025, the European Union (EU) will begin enforcing a new regulation called the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The DORA regulation mandates sweeping cyber resilience requirements for financial institutions and third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers. In this blog post, we examine how two core Perforce offerings help financial institutions and their supporting ecosystem of service providers comply with the requirements laid out in the DORA regulation.