Recently, I explored how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining traction in the Java ecosystem, with frameworks like Spring AI, Quarkus, and LangChain4j starting to adopt it for integrating language models via standardized interfaces. It was also time to…
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CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED: How to Fix This Windows Blue Screen Error
CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED is a notorious Windows error that triggers the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), often leaving users frustrated and unsure of how to proceed. This error typically indicates that a critical system process has unexpectedly terminated, causing Windows to…
Threat Modeling for Developers: Identifying Security Risks in Software Projects
Software projects can have disastrous breaches resulting from security flaws that expose private information and compromise user confidence. Preventive security measures become critical as applications get more sophisticated. One of the best ways to find and reduce possible hazards before…
Blockchain in Healthcare: Enhancing Data Security and Interoperability
Abstract: Healthcare systems around the world are at a critical juncture, navigating the pressures of digital transformation, rising cybersecurity threats, and fragmented data landscapes. While the volume of healthcare data grows exponentially, the capacity to manage it securely and effectively…
Zero-Trust AI: Applying Cybersecurity Best Practices to AI Model Development
Large language models are fast-developing and transforming the way we use technology. The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini in 2022 has led to common business exploration and employee adoption, frequently including unapproved use of tools such…
The Untold Costs of Automation: Are We Sacrificing Security for Speed?
Are we getting too aggressive with speed and efficiency in automation, losing the battle to security? If security isn’t prioritized, automation can accelerate risks as quickly as it accelerates processes, leading to severe consequences. A study conducted on the IBM…
Multi-Channel Notification Patterns for Security-Critical Events
As the degree of account takeovers and unauthorized access attempts continues to be more and more sophisticated, the time to notify users about security-critical situations has become a vital issue. The moment when a system becomes aware of irregular behavior…
Essential Steps to Building a Robust Cybersecurity Team
Cybersecurity doesn’t fail because someone forgot to patch a server. It fails because no one asked the right questions early enough, and because the wrong people were trusted to find the answers. Most companies start building a cybersecurity team only…
Beyond the Checklist: A Security Architect’s Guide to Comprehensive Assessments
A security architect’s role extends far beyond designing secure systems. It demands a continuous, vigilant approach to assessing the effectiveness of implemented controls against evolving threats. With the proliferation of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed environments, a mere checklist approach…
Automating E2E Tests With MFA: Streamline Your Testing Workflow
In software development, efficiency and security are key, especially for applications that require multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA enhances security but complicates automated testing, particularly for key business processes like logins or transaction validations. Altering testing environments to handle MFA differently…
Provider-Agnostic OIDC Auth Flow for Your Apps (PyJWT + FastAPI)
When building web applications, handling authentication securely and reliably is critical. That’s where OpenID Connect (OIDC) comes in. OIDC is a thin identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0, and it gives your app the ability to verify who…
Kubernetes Admission Controllers: Your First Line of Defense
Kubernetes Admission Controllers are a powerful but often overlooked security mechanism. Acting as gatekeepers, they intercept API server requests before objects are persisted in etcd, allowing you to enforce custom policies or inject configurations automatically. Whether it’s blocking privileged containers…
AI/ML Big Data-Driven Policy: Insights Into Governance and Social Welfare
Data-driven policy refers to the practice of using data, analytics, and empirical evidence to inform and guide government decision-making, moving beyond reliance on intuition or anecdotal information. Governments must be agile, transparent, and resilient in their decision-making. The convergence of…
Unveiling Supply Chain Transformation: IIoT and Digital Twins
Digital twins and IIoTs are evolving technologies that are transforming the digital landscape of supply chain transformation. The IIoT aims to connect to actual physical sensors and actuators. On the other hand, DTs are replica copies that virtually represent the…
Cybersecurity Innovations in Software Development: How Developers Are Tackling Security Threats
Cybersecurity is more critical than ever as technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives and business operations. Cyber threats change quickly, so software developers need to make sure that apps, data, and users are safe by putting strong security…
Your Kubernetes Survival Kit: Master Observability, Security, and Automation
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications. As organizations increasingly embrace cloud-native architectures, ensuring observability, security, policy enforcement, progressive delivery, and autoscaling is like ensuring your spaceship has enough fuel, oxygen, and a backup plan before…
Essential Cybersecurity Practices for Non-Profits
With an ever connected and globalized world, it is not surprising that cybersecurity attacks are on the rise. The repercussions of persistent cybersecurity attacks touch all types of organizations regardless of scale, from huge international companies to small local non-profits…
How to Master a DevSecOps Pipeline that Devs and AppSec Love
When you became a developer, you didn’t imagine you’d be spending a big chunk of your time parsing vulnerability reports, getting stuck in security review cycles, or rerunning CI jobs because the pipeline flagged a dozen “critical issues,” half of…
Secure DevOps in Serverless Architecture
Serverless computing, app development, and deployment have been completely revolutionized by its unparalleled scalability and cost efficiency. Infrastructure management abstraction, which is provided by serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions, allows developers to concentrate on…
How to Achieve SOC 2 Compliance in AWS Cloud Environments
Did you know cloud security was one of the most evident challenges of using cloud solutions in 2023? As businesses increasingly depend on Cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications, securing sensitive data in the Cloud…
Why 99% Accuracy Isn’t Good Enough: The Reality of ML Malware Detection
The threat of malware in enterprises is evolving each year. As enterprises expand their digital footprint through remote work and cloud adoption, their attack surface increases, making them more vulnerable to targeted malware campaigns. FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report showed…
Mastering Kubernetes Observability: Boost Performance, Security, and Stability With Tracestore, OPA, Flagger, and Custom Metrics
In modern microservices architectures, achieving comprehensive observability is not just an option—it’s a necessity. As applications scale dynamically within Kubernetes environments, tracking performance issues, enforcing security policies, and ensuring smooth deployments become complex challenges. Traditional monitoring solutions alone cannot fully…
Understanding the Fundamentals of Cryptography
Cybersecurity encompasses multiple different domains, including network isolation, platform security and infrastructure security. However, one thing that we less frequently discuss, but use more than often is cryptography. Whether it’s HTTPS, data encryption in databases, disk encryption, or technologies like…
How Security Engineers Can Help Build a Strong Security Culture
In today’s fast-paced world, organizations face increasing cyber threats that can compromise their operational integrity, erode customer trust, and jeopardize financial stability. While it’s crucial to have advanced security technologies in place, many organizations overlook the importance of cultivating a…
Evaluating Similariy Digests: A Study of TLSH, ssdeep, and sdhash Against Common File Modifications
The field of digital forensics often uses signatures to identify malicious executables. These signatures can take various forms: cryptographic hashes can be used to uniquely identify executables, whereas tools like YARA can help malware researchers identify and classify malware samples.…
Secure Your Oracle Database Passwords in AWS RDS With a Password Verification Function
Protecting database access through strong password policies is a cornerstone of security in any environment. When deploying Oracle databases on AWS RDS, enforcing password complexity is essential, but the approach differs slightly from on-premises Oracle environments. AWS provides two primary…
Online Developer Tools a Backdoor to Security Threat
< div tabindex=”0″> Free Online Utilities May Not Be Safe Using online developer utilities, such as a JSON Viewer, can be incredibly convenient for parsing and visualizing JSON data, but they also come with significant risks. The tool, for instance,…
Serverless IAM: Implementing IAM in Serverless Architectures with Lessons from the Security Trenches
When I first began working with serverless architectures in 2018, I quickly discovered that my traditional security playbook wasn’t going to cut it. The ephemeral nature of functions, the distributed service architecture, and the multiplicity of entry points created a…
Secure IaC With a Shift-Left Approach
Imagine you’re building a skyscraper—not just quickly, but with precision. You rely on blueprints to make sure every beam and every bolt is exactly where it should be. That’s what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is for today’s cloud-native organizations—a blueprint…
Privacy-Preserving AI: How Multimodal Models Are Changing Data Security
Ever had that feeling that your phone is listening to you? You mention something random in conversation, and suddenly you’re bombarded with ads about it. Creepy, right? Privacy concerns surrounding AI have always been there. But something fascinating is happening…
The Rise of Vibe Coding: Innovation at the Cost of Security
Software development teams and professionals are increasingly adopting vibe coding as their preferred approach. Vibe coding involves creating software through instinctual coding methods and minimal planning to achieve quick prototyping or making solutions work immediately. While vibe coding can spark…
Enhancing SQL Server Security With AI-Driven Anomaly Detection
As SQL Server databases become increasingly targeted by cybercriminals, it’s crucial to adopt proactive security measures. Traditional database security mechanisms, such as access controls, role-based permissions, and firewalls, are important but may not be sufficient to detect advanced threats or…
The Synergy of Security and Development: Integrating Threat Models With DevOps
In our digital-first world, security isn’t just important — it’s non-negotiable, especially within DevOps environments. Yes, DevOps brilliantly accelerates development by bridging the gap between development and operations teams. But here’s the catch: that impressive speed sometimes races past essential…
Securing DevOps Pipelines: A Practical Guide to Balancing Speed and Security
Security has been a major concern in today’s world. Security issues lead to data breaches with consequences such as data loss and financial losses. As a result, there is a need to focus on enhancing security. The OWASP top 10…
Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Security Policies and Tuning
I’ve worked with a lot of enterprise customers over the years—big ones, too—and a common struggle I see is with their Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Even though they’ve had the product for years, they often face one of two…
When Airflow Tasks Get Stuck in Queued: A Real-World Debugging Story
Recently, my team encountered a critical production issue in which Apache Airflow tasks were getting stuck in the “queued” state indefinitely. As someone who has worked extensively with Scheduler, I’ve handled my share of DAG failures, retries, and scheduler quirks,…
Security by Design: Building Full-Stack Applications With DevSecOps
Building a full-stack application with Angular (frontend) and Node.js (backend) demands a holistic security approach. Security by design means baking in security from the architecture stage and throughout development, rather than as an afterthought. DevSecOps extends DevOps by integrating security…
How GitHub Copilot Helps You Write More Secure Code
Early-career developers often struggle with secure coding practices. GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, can assist in writing safer code when used wisely. However, guidance is key; a 2021 study found that approximately 40% of Copilot’s generated code had security…
A Guide to Auto-Tagging and Lineage Tracking With OpenMetadata
Tagging metadata and tracking SQL lineage manually is often tedious and prone to mistakes in data engineering. Although essential for compliance and data governance, these tasks usually involve lengthy manual checks of datasets, table structures, and SQL code. Thankfully, advancements…
Proactive Security in Distributed Systems: A Developer’s Approach
Once the product becomes famous and the customer base increases, it is no longer viable to serve the customers using simple systems without too many bottlenecks. Distributed software systems are inevitable, and it is directly related to the growth of…
The Role of AI in Identity and Access Management for Organizations
Introduction Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a key pillar of any organization. It plays a vital role in enterprise security—securing the resources and the data of an organization by making sure only authorized users have access. As the IT infrastructure…
Analyzing Techniques to Provision Access via IDAM Models During Emergency and Disaster Response
Introduction A natural or human-made disaster is a significant concern for populations across the world. It is important that the response to such cases be prompt and effective so that human and financial losses are minimized. In addition, while the…
IoT and Cybersecurity: Addressing Data Privacy and Security Challenges
The Internet of Things has shaken up our lives, connecting everything from smart homes to massive industrial systems in a pretty smooth way. Sure, these tech upgrades make our day-to-day so much easier, but they have also brought some real…
Securing the Future: Best Practices for Privacy and Data Governance in LLMOps
Over the last few years, they have rapidly developed in the field of large language models (LLMs) since these models can now underpin anything, from a customer service chatbot to an enterprise-grade solution. Now that such models are more woven…
Prioritizing Cloud Security Risks: A Developer’s Guide to Tackling Security Debt
In this era of ever-growing digital footprint, decreasing security debt has become so critical for organizations operating in the cloud. The myriads of unresolved security findings expose services vulnerable to emerging threats as well as pose risk to compliance and…
Cloud Security and Privacy: Best Practices to Mitigate the Risks
Cloud security refers to technologies, best practices, and safety guidelines that help to protect your data from human errors, insider and security threats. Therefore, it naturally covers a wide range of procedures, which are aimed at securing systems from data…
Building Resilient Identity Systems: Lessons from Securing Billions of Authentication Requests
As workforce becomes more digital, identity security has become the center of enterprise cyber security. This is particularly challenging given that more than 40 billion authentication requests are processed each day, across platforms and devices, and more solutions than ever are…
Endpoint Security Controls: Designing a Secure Endpoint Architecture, Part 2
As we understood the foundational principles for designing and reviewing endpoint security controls in Part 1, we also covered key topics such as standardizing and enrolling approved devices and operating systems, enforcing strong authentication and centralized identity management, and validating…
Secure by Design: Modernizing Authentication With Centralized Access and Adaptive Signals
Introduction Managing identity and access management (IAM) for large-scale enterprises is a complex challenge, particularly when dealing with legacy systems that cannot be transitioned from overnight to modern authentication. Traditional migration often spans years, leaving enterprises burdened with technical debts…
Endpoint Security Controls: Designing a Secure Endpoint Architecture, Part 1
As organizations embrace digital transformation and hybrid work, the endpoint becomes both a critical productivity enabler and a significant security liability. Laptops, desktops, smartphones, and even IoT devices form the frontline in the battle for data integrity and organizational resilience.…
Detection and Mitigation of Lateral Movement in Cloud Networks
How Hackers Bypass Lateral Movement Detection (And How to Stop Them) Detecting lateral movement has emerged as a crucial cybersecurity challenge today. Attackers who breach network perimeters follow a five-step process. They start with reconnaissance, move to their original compromise,…
Developers Beware: Slopsquatting and Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks
Security researchers and developers are raising alarms over “slopsquatting,” a new form of supply chain attack that leverages AI-generated misinformation commonly known as hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek, attackers are exploiting…
FIPS 140-3: The Security Standard That Protects Our Federal Data
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) [1] defines a set of public security standards developed by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) [2] that govern the security requirements for cryptographic modules used in government systems. FIPS 140-3 is the latest…
Understanding IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi) Encryption and Authentication: Write Your Own Custom Packet Sniffer
Introduction As of 2023, it’s estimated that 42 billion cumulative Wi-Fi enabled devices have been shipped (Wi-Fi® by the Numbers: Technology Momentum in 2023, n.d.). Every new device adds to the increasing wireless attack surface, and it’s important for anyone…
Agentic AI for Automated Application Security and Vulnerability Management
It was not so long ago that I was having a much closer look at how AI is becoming embedded in our everyday developer work. I have watched more intelligent code suggestions, automated testing routines, and those ubiquitous chatbots become…
5 Subtle Indicators Your Development Environment Is Under Siege
Think your organization is too small to be a target for threat actors? Think again. In 2025, attackers no longer distinguish between size or sector. Whether you’re a flashy tech giant, a mid-sized auto dealership software provider, or a small…
AI-Based Threat Detection in Cloud Security
Abstract This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is enhancing threat detection in cloud certificate environments. It explicates how dissimilar AI modeling, such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, is used to describe and respond to security measures and threats…
How Trustworthy Is Big Data?
Businesses and individual users now employ big data analysis to support decision-making, engineering innovation, and productivity levels. However, the surge in the reliance on big data leads to growing concerns regarding its accuracy and trustworthiness. Although big data provides unprecedented…
Immutable Secrets Management: A Zero-Trust Approach to Sensitive Data in Containers
Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive approach to securing sensitive data in containerized environments using the principle of immutable secrets management, grounded in a Zero-Trust security model. We detail the inherent risks of traditional secrets management, demonstrate how immutability and…
Building Enterprise-Ready Landing Zones: Beyond the Initial Setup
Introduction Cloud providers offer baseline landing zone frameworks, but successful implementation requires strategic customization tailored to an organization’s specific security, compliance, operations, and cost-management needs. Treating a landing zone as a turnkey solution can lead to security gaps and operational…
Cookies Revisited: A Networking Solution for Third-Party Cookies
Cookies are fundamental aspects of a web application that end users and developers frequently deal with. A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored in a user’s browser. The data element is used as a medium to…
It’s Not About Control — It’s About Collaboration Between Architecture and Security
In the day-to-day operations of companies, solution architecture and information security are two areas that inevitably intersect. Both play a key role in building robust, scalable, and reliable technology environments. However, one question lingers — though rarely openly discussed: what…
Unlocking the Potential of Apache Iceberg: A Comprehensive Analysis
Apache Iceberg has emerged as a pioneering open table format, revolutionising data management by addressing big challenges. In this article, we’ll delve into Iceberg’s capabilities, discuss its limitations, and explore the implications for data architects. A Brief History Lesson: Hadoop’s…
Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud: Choosing the Right Strategy for AI Scalability and Security
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, their cloud strategy determines whether they can efficiently train models, scale workloads, and ensure compliance. Given the computational intensity and data sensitivity of AI, businesses must choose between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures. While both…
Issue and Present Verifiable Credentials With Spring Boot and Android
As digital identity ecosystems evolve, the ability to issue and verify digital credentials in a secure, privacy-preserving, and interoperable manner has become increasingly important. Verifiable Credentials (VCs) offer a W3C-standardized way to present claims about a subject, such as identity…
Unlocking the Benefits of a Private API in AWS API Gateway
AWS API Gateway is a managed service to create, publish, and manage APIs. It serves as a bridge between your applications and backend services. When creating APIs for our backend services, we tend to open it up using public IPs.…
While Performing Dependency Selection, I Avoid the Loss Of Sleep From Node.js Libraries’ Dangers
Running “npm install” requires trusting unknown parties online. Staring at node_modules for too long leads someone to become a node_modules expert. We Should Have Solved This Issue By 2025 The registry expands relentlessly at the rate of one new library…
Optimize Deployment Pipelines for Speed, Security and Seamless Automation
A developer’s work doesn’t stop once the code is written. The real action begins when it’s deployment day. The process—managing multiple environments, testing new features, or ensuring seamless uptime during releases—must be fast, secure, and efficient. Can you imagine a…
Zero Trust for AWS NLBs: Why It Matters and How to Do It
Introduction to AWS Network Load Balancer AWS has several critical services that drive the internet. If you have ever built any application on top of AWS and need a high throughput or volume of traffic, the chances are that you’ve…
Integrating Security as Code: A Necessity for DevSecOps
Security practices in DevOps have evolved from being a minor concern to one of the main focus points, which resulted in the DevSecOps movement. It’s about “shifting security to the left” in the software development lifecycle — so the security…
GDPR Compliance With .NET: Securing Data the Right Way
When developers hear the term GDPR, the initial reaction often involves stress and uncertainty, especially around how it might slow down development or degrade application performance. But here’s the truth: GDPR isn’t just another regulation to check off your list.…
The Transformative Power of Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Security
Cloud computing has reshaped how businesses operate, offering unmatched scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, as organizations continue to shift critical operations to the cloud, they face escalating cybersecurity challenges. Traditional security systems often struggle to protect complex, interconnected cloud environments…
Why I Started Using Dependency Injection in Python
When I first started building real-world projects in Python, I was excited just to get things working. I had classes calling other classes, services spun up inside constructors, and everything somehow held together. But deep down, I knew something was…
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Enhancing Software Transparency and Security
Abstract This article explores the concept of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) as an essential tool in modern software development and cybersecurity frameworks. The SBOM acts as a detailed inventory of all software components, dependencies, and associated metadata within…
Zero Trust Isn’t Just for Networks: Applying Zero-Trust Principles to CI/CD Pipelines
Zero trust has emerged as a cornerstone of modern enterprise security. It is mainly applied to networks, user identities, and endpoints of most organizations. However, the single layer left undersecured is the CI/CD pipeline. These systems orchestrate code validation for…
The Hidden Breach: Secrets Leaked Outside the Codebase Pose a Serious Threat
When you think of secrets scanning, most people immediately think about source code repositories on platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. While the codebase is a source you absolutely should monitor, this is just a part of the overall secrets…
Enhancing Avro With Semantic Metadata Using Logical Types
Apache Avro is a widely used data format that keeps things compact and efficient while making it easy to evolve schemas over time. By default, it comes with basic data types like int, long, string, and bytes. But what if you need…
Zero Trust Architecture: Revolutionizing Network Security in the Digital Age
The Paradigm Shift in Cybersecurity In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital threats, traditional network security models have become increasingly obsolete. Enter Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)—a revolutionary approach that fundamentally challenges decades of established cybersecurity thinking. Gone are the days…
Securing Parquet Files: Vulnerabilities, Mitigations, and Validation
Apache Parquet in Data Warehousing Parquet files are becoming the de facto standard for columnar data storage in big data ecosystems. This file format is widely used by both sophisticated in-memory data processing frameworks like Apache Spark and more conventional…
Jira Restore And Disaster Recovery: Scenarios and Use Cases
It’s hard to imagine the company managing its projects without issue-tracking tools. For example, Jira has probably become one of the most popular project management software solutions for organized teams. According to Atlassian, over 180k customers in about 190 countries…
Overcoming MFA Test Automation Challenges
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become an essential tool for safeguarding sensitive systems. As businesses strive to comply with regulatory requirements, the integration of MFA into workflows is now standard practice. However, automating tests for MFA-enabled systems poses unique challenges for…
Your Ultimate Website QA Checklist
A detailed website QA checklist helps make sure every aspect of the website is tested, whether through manual or automated testing approaches. It usually covers parameters like functionality, performance, usability, security, and compatibility across various browsers and devices. By following…
Achieving Zero Trust and Air-Gapped IaC in IBM Cloud With Schematics
As modern enterprises continue their journey toward cloud-native infrastructure, security and automation aren’t just nice to have; they’re absolutely essential. Particularly in regulated industries like finance, government, and healthcare, there’s a growing need to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within…
Understanding ldd: The Linux Dynamic Dependency Explorer
In the world of Linux system administration and software development, understanding how executables interact with shared libraries is crucial. Enter ldd (List Dynamic Dependencies), a powerful command-line utility that helps you peer into the complex web of library dependencies that…
AI Protection: Securing The New Attack Frontier
We’re amidst a paradigm shift in society where many product verticals are being reimagined through an ‘AI-first’ architecture. An AI-first architecture is one where much of the core business logic is driven by AI, and the product is architected to…
Seamless Security Integration Strategies in Software Development
During the software development, builders face challenges between building a better product faster versus dealing with various responsibilities that come with software development. Getting security right is one of them. Due to the increased cyber attacks, organizations started focusing on…
Why Generative AI Needs Human Oversight to Build Trust
In 2023, a generative AI-powered chatbot for a financial firm mistakenly gave investment advice that violated compliance regulations, triggering regulatory scrutiny. Around the same time, an AI-powered medical summary tool misrepresented patient conditions, raising serious ethical concerns. As businesses rapidly…
Safeguarding Sensitive Data: Content Detection Technologies in DLP
The 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report found that data breaches cost organizations an average of $4.88 million per incident globally. Many of these breaches were caused by accidental or intentional mishandling of sensitive information. As businesses rely…
Stop Exposing Secrets! Secure Your APIs in Postman Like a Pro
API security is crucial, as it directly impacts your business’s success and safety. How well you secure your APIs can make or mar your product, and it is of utmost importance to spend time thinking about security. I have seen…
AWS WAF Classic vs WAFV2: Features and Migration Considerations
Amazon Web Services Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) protects web programs against widespread vulnerabilities including SQL injection and cross-scriptability. Amazon Web Services WAFV2, a new WAF Classic service, introduces with it increased agility, elasticity, and operational efficiency. In this article,…
The Role of DevSecOps in Securing Multi-Cloud Architectures
In this article, we will explore how DevSecOps transforms security in multi-cloud ecosystems. Starting with the DevSecOps phase, we will delve into how multi-cloud environments can be implemented effectively and safely. Additionally, we will examine the most significant challenges associated…
Ansible Security and Testing Tools for Automation
Automation has become the cornerstone of modern IT operations, enabling organizations to streamline processes, reduce manual errors, and improve efficiency. However, as automation grows in complexity and scale, security risks also increase. Misconfigured infrastructure, untested playbooks, and vulnerabilities in automation…
Security in the CI/CD Pipeline
As development cycles speed up, integrating security into the CI/CD pipeline is essential to embed security checks early and throughout the process to prevent vulnerabilities from creeping into production. This article delves deeper into the technical details, code examples, and…
A Comprehensive Guide to Protect Data, Models, and Users in the GenAI Era
Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Generative AI: The Democratization of Intelligent Systems. Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming how organizations operate, enabling automation, content generation, and intelligent decision making at an…
Multi-Tenant .NET Applications With Keycloak Realms
Introduction Note: You can download the source from GitHub. I’ve been working on multi-tenant applications in the .NET ecosystem for quite a while, and one of the toughest challenges I consistently run into is secure tenant isolation — especially when…
More Efficient Software Development Means More Need for Devs
I think we need to be realistic when we talk about AI’s role in software development. It’s not “hit a button and generate code.” For me, it’s best positioned to maximize efficiency. It’s not just a tool for getting rid…
Patch Management in the Age of IoT: Challenges and Solutions
In a closely connected world, the Internet of Things (IoT) is already a familiar brand for people. However, the use of such many devices is likely to increase the risk of attack. This is why good patch management is so important.…
Tackling Multidomain Integration in Software Development
Multidomain integration is becoming a cornerstone of modern software development, bridging technologies like blockchain, biotech, and consumer applications. These cross-domain projects are no longer optional — they are the future of innovation. However, combining such diverse systems presents unique challenges. …
Bringing Security to Digital Product Design
One of the biggest problems in digital product development today is the failure to collaborate with InfoSec or DevSecOps teams. Unfortunately, threats are ubiquitous and increasingly sophisticated. But did you know that there is a way to reduce the time…
Secure File Transfer as a Critical Component for AI Success
Secure file transfer (SFT) has become one of the most crucial technologies in the modern Information technology (IT) landscape for ensuring data security and confidentiality. SFT is a hot topic in today’s world, especially when decisions are being made based…