Recently, Nissan North America confirmed a data breach at a third-party service provider. Details of the breach were highlighted in a notification that was filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General on January 16, 2023. Here's what was learned from the report ...
While cloud providers offer many cloud native security features and services, supplementary third-party solutions are essential to achieve enterprise-grade cloud workload protection from breaches, data leaks, and targeted attacks in the cloud environment. The following are some industry best practices recommended ...
Developers have significantly increased their use of APIs in 2022 and plan to continue doing so in 2023, according to the State of APIs Report from Rapid. Developers know agility is critical for businesses to grow and survive and that APIs are the key to gaining the speed and flexibility necessary to make this happen ...
Speed and agility are essential for business success today and DevOps is enabling businesses to build better products and services and keep pace with today's ever-evolving customer. Without the right tools for automated testing and process discovery, however, it's unlikely that a DevOps strategy will produce the desired results ...
The increase in demand for data center resources, and the resulting increased in carbon footprint, is driven largely by software development across technology trends in enterprise IT, viz., big data, AI/ML, blockchain, crypto, and IoT. Organizations can develop and use software to reduce their carbon footprint ... Here's how DevOps teams can contribute to meeting sustainability goals ...
Organizations have struggled with application modernization for years now, and many projects are just stalled out, stuck in the mud, or fully abandoned. They suffer from unclear requirements, lack of best practices, and slow, manual processes. These tend to be long, complex, expensive, and costly, and the failure rate is staggeringly high. To understand why app modernization projects tend to fail, we need to take a closer look at the different perspectives of those involved ...
While the topic is growing in popularity now, developer experience was not on many people's radars even just a few years ago. One of the simplest, yet most important reasons for the rise of developer experience is that there are just so many more developers in the world ... And as developer experience continues to garner attention for businesses, here are four ways developer experience will improve in 2023 ...
For the past few years, Check Point Research (CPR) has been following the evolution of the cloud threat landscape, as well as the constant increase in cloud infrastructure adoption by corporate environments. As many as 98% of global organizations utilize cloud-based services, and approximately 76% of them have multi-cloud environments, featuring services from two or more cloud providers ...
In the fast-paced world of software development, development organizations are under significant pressure to evolve how they build, test, and deliver new products. Internal changes, like a growing reliance on APIs and other third-party components, are increasingly impacting the customer experience, threatening to hurt user retention if quality doesn't evolve. The question is: how are these teams coping under such pressure, and how does that ultimately translate to customer delight? ...
Recent events, including Log4Shell and President Biden's cybersecurity executive order, have placed the software supply chain under scrutiny. Gartner named software supply chain attacks the second biggest threat for 2022 and predicted that 45% of organizations will have experienced one or more software supply chain attacks by 2025. However, in the fight to secure the software supply chain one particular non-malicious risk is often overlooked: the developer ...
Technical teams driving innovation forward are feeling overwhelmed. In a survey conducted by Couchbase of 650 senior IT decision makers, development teams said they are under-supported and under immense pressure as they champion their organizations' modernization efforts. A majority of respondents (88%) are aware of the challenges faced by development teams. Their top issues include 42% feeling that deadlines and agility requirements were difficult to meet, 40% believing they were being asked to do too much in too little time, 24% finding that they did not have the skills required to complete the tasks asked of them and 23% not having access to the necessary technology ...
When it comes to mobile software testing, expanding device coverage by running software tests on as many devices as possible is important in virtually every context. The more devices you test your software on, the higher the degree of confidence you can have that your software will work as required for all of your users ... Smart hospitality businesses recognize that they can't test on every device, so they need to be strategic about where they do run tests in order to make the most of the tests they execute. There are three main ways they can go about this ...
DevOps transformation journey isn't always a walk in the park. The road can often be complex and filled with challenges, with the looming threat of failure, frustration, and lost resources. Ultimately, you cannot purposefully avoid what you don't understand. That's why the rest of this blog focuses on outlining the common reasons for DevOps transformation program failures so that you can successfully avoid them and drive your team toward the best chance at success ...
Ask any developer and most will agree that Git it is the most popular software version control (SVC) standard today. Just because it's the most popular, however, doesn't mean it's the most secure. Regardless of whether you're using GitLab, GitHub, or a locally hosted Git server each has its own security issues that can sneak up on you and start a wave of additional issues ... What can you do to avoid repeating the Git security mistakes of others? Here are a few common Git security pitfalls and pointers to help you navigate them ...
In 2023, developers will demand solutions that enable highly available cloud-native SQL Server availability groups (AGs) in containers, including support for Kubernetes (K8s) clusters — across mixed environments and across any type of infrastructure or cloud ...
