White Papers

Progress sought to better understand the challenges, obstacles and opportunities of embracing human-centric software development. This extensive report provides actions that forward-thinking organizations can adopt to create human-centric applications that can transform their customers’ and employees’ digital experiences, be inclusive and sustainable and keep pace with increased regulations. Download the research study today to access the full report and get the actionable advice your organization needs to develop human-centric applications.

Dive into this whitepaper for a smooth migration journey from AWS OpsWorks to Progress Chef. In this guide, you will learn:
- Introduction to AWS OpsWorks EOL: Highlights the implications for users and emphasizes the importance of migrating to Chef SaaS.
- Four Key Reasons to Migrate to Chef SaaS: Discover more about Chef SaaS deployment, strategies, and what to expect when your environment is ready.
- The Step-by-Step Migration from AWS OpsWorks to Chef SaaS: Effortlessly transition with a simple 3-step guide, ensuring you're on the latest OpsWorks version and seamlessly adapting to Chef SaaS.
- The Benefits of using Chef SaaS: Explore the feature benefits of using Chef SaaS.
Learn why Chef SaaS is the optimal option after AWS OpsWorks EOL.

What exactly is Continuous Compliance in DevOps and why should it be integrated into your organization’s software development process? The Buyer’s Guide for Continuous Compliance Solutions in DevOps answers questions about CI/CD practices while providing an overview of compliance rules in DevOps. It also explores common challenges for organizations looking to implement DevOps practices:
- Maintaining software delivery and deployment speed
- Simplifying compliance
- Minimizing potential risks

Dive into the latest trends with Check Point's 2024 Cyber Security Report. Gain a deep understanding of the evolving digital threats landscape through a detailed analysis, featuring global attack patterns, malware families, and regional data specifics.

Read the 2023 Cloud Security Report, to find out what cyber-security professionals had to say about the current state of cloud security, including:
- Embracing a platform approach
- Adopting DevSecOps principles
- Using advanced context and intelligence to prioritize threats
Download this report and get the full list of trends and insights organizations are facing today.

Learn about the positive impacts of AI and ML in software testing. Find real examples of how it’s being used to improve static analysis adoption, increase unit testing coverage, improve API testing, efficiently automate UI testing, and remove redundant work.

Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point, has unveiled its 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report. The report uncovers an unsettling 8% surge in global weekly cyberattacks in the second quarter, the most significant increase in two years, highlighting how cybercriminals have cunningly combined next-gen AI technologies with long-established tools like USB devices to conduct disruptive cyberattacks. AI has also emerged as a powerful tool for defending against sophisticated and ever evolving cyberattacks. AI-powered cybersecurity systems excel at identifying anomalies and detecting previously unseen attack patterns, thereby mitigating potential risks before they escalate. Read the report now to see how you can protect your company from future cyber attacks.

Did you know resource demand systems are rarely static across time? As a system’s usage grows the existing computer resources eventually become insufficient to support an application or service. Dive into our whitepaper, MacStadium DevOps Capacity Planning, for an overview of capacity planning for organizations that manage hardware resources for the purposes of running DevOps pipelines. Gain insight into how to assess and optimize current utilization, gather the necessary information needed to confidently forecast future needs and calculate the number of additional resources that will be required to meet those needs. Discover best practices, how to understand your current system utilization, and more!

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is a new category that Gartner expects to bring a fundamental change to the application world as it requires us to redefine our understanding of what an is application stands for: It's more than just code; it includes cloud components as well. In this eBook, Backslash dives deep dive into this new paradigm.

Explore the impact that cybersecurity EO 14028 and the efforts of CISA and NIST have on embedded software development. Dive into how to produce well-secured software and security by design.

The defensive tax, which is the time AppSec teams spend chasing vulnerabilities vs. driving scalable cloud-native AppSec policies, is real and is being felt across enterprises of all sizes. Read this report to find out more.

How can you ensure the application your software team develops is ready and reliable for all the scenarios of the real world? Discover the benefits of an environment-based approach. Learn how to overcome test environment challenges with service virtualization.

Learn the key capabilities and features to look for in a service virtualization solution to make sure your organization is maximizing return on investment.

Niche application security solutions can interfere with DevOps agility, and can impede with the security of microservices and workloads. This buyer’s guide outlines the considerations and questions to apply when choosing a third-party, end-to-end, enterprise-grade application security solution.

For developers, secret and credential leakage is a problem as old as public-facing repositories. In a rush to deliver, developers will often hard-code credentials in code or neglect to review code for exposed secrets. This paper reviews the dangers of secret leakage, the challenges in protecting secrets in the SDLC, and strategies for secret leakage mitigation.

Explore 21 GitHub security practices that can increase the robustness of your repositories and help implement a security-first approach for your development teams.

This buyers' guide explains the top considerations when evaluating a cloud native security solution, and best security practices to implement to secure applications from pre-build through the CI/CD pipeline, during build, registry and runtime.

This best practice buyers guide outlines the hurdles you may encounter when securing your cloud infrastructure, and opportunities to streamline your cloud security stack. It delves into various cloud security solutions to help your organization select the right tools for your cloud applications.