APIs: The New Battlefield Every API endpoint is a doorway. Some lead to treasure vaults. Others? Straight into disaster. I’ve spent the last five years watching enterprises get blindsided by API attacks they never saw coming. Payment processors are losing…
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DPDK Cryptography Build and Tuning Guide
One of the many use cases customers run on Ampere-powered systems is packet processing workloads built on DPDK. Ampere has published a setup and tuning guide for DPDK to assist customers with getting the best performance from these workloads. Since…
Private AI at Home: A RAG-Powered Secure Chatbot for Everyday Help
Abstract This article explores the design and deployment of a secure, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)- powered chatbot tailored for family use using Spring AI. By combining Spring AI’s modular orchestration capabilities with a local vector store and embedding models, the chatbot…
Integrating AWS With Okta for Just-in-Time (JIT) Access: A Practical Guide From the Field
When our engineering team decided to tighten security around AWS access without slowing developers down, we quickly ran into a familiar trade-off — speed vs. control. We had engineers needing quick access to production for debugging, deployments, and performance checks, but…
Evaluating AI Vulnerability Detection: How Reliable Are LLMs for Secure Coding?
Large language models (LLMs) can be used to generate source code, and these AI coding assistants have changed the landscape for how we produce software. Speeding up boilerplate tasks like syntax checking, generating test cases, and suggesting bug fixes accelerates the…
Spectre and Meltdown: How Modern CPUs Traded Security for Speed
For years, CPU designers focused on making processors faster. Techniques like out-of-order and speculative execution became standard to keep every part of the chip busy. These tricks helped achieve huge performance gains, but they also opened the door to a…
The DSPM Paradox: Perceived Controls for an Uncontrollable Data Landscape
Data is always on the move. Data flows across multiple interconnected systems, creating an expanded attack surface that spans Slack messages, browser-based AI tools, cache folders, and distributed cloud workloads. Security teams have long tried to keep up. While traditional…
A Growing Security Concern: Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in Model Context Protocol Systems
Most companies set up their AI document assistant the same way: give it access to the repository, then rely on it to filter results based on user permissions. When someone asks: “For the security audit, list all documents containing ‘confidential’…
Decentralized Identity Management: The Future of Privacy and Security
The average person juggles accounts with varying levels of security. Login fatigue may lead us to recycle passwords or trust personal information to dubious companies. There is also the ever-looming threat of data breaches, social engineering attacks, and brute force…
Docker Security: 6 Practical Labs From Audit to AI Protection
Docker containers share the host kernel. A single misconfigured container can expose sensitive data, provide root access to the host, or compromise the entire infrastructure. This guide provides six practical labs that work on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The examples…
Understanding Proxies and the Importance of Japanese Proxies in Modern Networking
In the current digital age, which largely revolves around the use of the internet, privacy and security, as well as access to the whole world, are some of the main concerns for individuals and businesses. One of the most effective…
Workload Identities: Bridging Infrastructure and Application Security
Infrastructure security has long been about protecting networks, hosts, and cloud platforms. Application security focuses on securing APIs, data flows, and business logic to protect critical assets. Both approaches are critical, but they can’t provide complete protection on their own.…
Bridging the Divide: Tactical Security Approaches for Vendor Integration in Hybrid Architectures
Security architecture in hybrid environments has traditionally focused on well-known concepts such as OWASP vulnerabilities, identity and access management, role-based access control, network security, and the principle of least privilege. Best practices like secure coding and incorporating SAST/DAST testing into…
Top Takeaways From Devoxx Belgium 2025
In October 2025, I visited Devoxx Belgium, and again it was an awesome event! I learned a lot and received quite a lot of information, which I do not want to withhold from you. In this blog, you can find…
Detecting Supply Chain Attacks in NPM, PyPI, and Docker: Real-World Techniques That Work
The digital ecosystem breathes through trust. Every npm install, every pip install, every docker pull represents a leap of faith — a developer placing confidence in code written by strangers, maintained by volunteers, distributed through systems they’ve never seen. This…
Navigating the Cyber Frontier: AI and ML’s Role in Shaping Tomorrow’s Threat Defense
Abstract This article explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity. It delves into innovative strategies such as adaptive cyber deception and predictive behavioral analysis, which are reshaping defense mechanisms against cyber threats. The…
A Framework for Securing Open-Source Observability at the Edge
The Edge Observability Security Challenge Deploying an open-source observability solution to distributed retail edge locations creates a fundamental security challenge. With thousands of locations processing sensitive data like payments and customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), every telemetry component running on…
HSTS Beyond the Basics: Securing AI Infrastructure and Modern Attack Vectors
It all started while I was working with a colleague on web security. I heard that their team is enabling HSTS as part of their Black Friday security upgrades to their website. The first question that popped into my mind…
Building Secure Software: Integrating Risk, Compliance, and Trust
This paper outlines a practical approach to secure software engineering that brings together: Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST & DAST) Information Security Risk Assessment (ISRA) Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Continuous Vulnerability Management Measuring Security Confidence (MSC) framework OWASP…
Evolving Golden Paths: Upgrades Without Disruption
The platform team had done it again — a new version of the golden path was ready. Cleaner templates, better guardrails, smoother CI/CD. But as soon as it rolled out, messages started flooding in: “My pipeline broke!”, “The new module…