DBA News
This week we’ve got plenty on security, infrastructure, organization and decentralization. The information age goes both ways. Stay safe out there boys and girls.
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Data: What is DevSecOps?
What is DevSecOps? Interesting tweak on the DevOps model. Security baked directly into the process, rather than left as a new-development concern.
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Six Paths to Mitigating Application Security Risks
Few things are more important to your operations than the health of your DevOps Pipelines and Enterprise Applications Infrastructure. This article teaches how to defend this critical infrastructure.
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OpenSSL security advisory (2021-08-24)
OpenSSL reports discovery of two new security flaws, both buffer overflows, affecting OpenSSL versions 1.1.1k, 1.0.1, 1.0.2y and 3.0 alpha/beta. OpenSSL recommends users update to supported builds 1.1.1l, 1.0.2za. Upcoming security patches for 3.0.
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How to Develop Your Business' Technology Roadmap
Here’s an overview of Technology Roadmaps and Agile followed with the tips and tricks necessary to make it happen. Includes an 8 step plan for developing and integrating a Business’’’ Technology Roadmap.
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US Opens Probe of Tesla Autopilot after 11 Crashes: Agency
Autopilot malfunctions resulting in 11 crashes over 3 years has Tesla under scrutiny. Interesting to consider how many malfunctions are an acceptable number for such a system, especially considering this is likely an incredibly low failure rate.
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The Top 5 DevOps Success Factors
Here’s some tips and tricks for organizing and managing DevOps teams with mixed skillsets, important if you want your teams to be adaptable enough to handle whatever problems they may go up against.
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It’s time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc
Senior Network Engineer Bruce Davie sounds the alarm over the current centralized nature of the internet, as opposed to the decentralized nature of its founding. An internet under the dominion of a handful of tech giants is less free and resilient.
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Digital Transformation of Employee Training and Development
Here are some tips for bringing staff training and development into the digital age with Learning Management Systems, Mobile Applications, and Extended Reality, including brief guides for applying those technologies into several staff training methods.
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Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.
Apparently Apple proposing scanning users’ phones for objectionable (honestly disturbing) content was enough to shock some Lefties into remembering their principles. Have they awoken to the impending technocratic dystopia they’ve enabled and encouraged?