Generative AI (GenAI) represents a significant leap in artificial intelligence, enabling the creation of novel and realistic data, from text and audio to images and code. While this innovation holds immense potential, it also raises critical concerns regarding data security…
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Integrating Software Supply Chains and DevOps: Tips for Effectively Reconciling Supply Chain Management and DevOps
Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures. Software supply chains (SSCs) have become a prevalent topic in the software development world, and for…
Maximizing Feedback for Developers With Continuous Testing
Developers need feedback on their work so that they know whether their code is helping the business. They should have “multiple feedback loops to ensure that high-quality software gets delivered to users”[1]. Development teams also need to review their feedback…
Securing and Monitoring Your Data Pipeline: Best Practices for Kafka, AWS RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway Integration
There are several steps involved in implementing a data pipeline that integrates Apache Kafka with AWS RDS and uses AWS Lambda and API Gateway to feed data into a web application. Here is a high-level overview of how to architect this…
The Role of Penetration Testing in Strengthening Cyber Defenses
Digital security has become a significant worry for organizations of different sizes in today’s fast-paced world. With the rate at which digital threats continue to develop, enhancing security measures is very important to protect vulnerable data and infrastructure. This defense…
Top 5 Common Cybersecurity Attacks MSPs Should Know in 2024
As Managed Service Providers (MSPs) continue to play a crucial role in managing IT services for businesses, understanding the landscape of cybersecurity threats becomes paramount. The year 2024 is no exception, with cybercriminals employing more sophisticated methods to breach defenses.…
Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Age of Cyber Threats
Critical Infrastructure Protection is the need to safeguard a nation/region’s important infrastructures, such as food, agriculture, or transportation. Critical infrastructures include transportation systems, power grids, and communication systems. Critical infrastructure protection is important to communities because any damage to these…
An Approach To Synthetic Transactions With Spring Microservices: Validating Features and Upgrades
In fintech application mobile apps or the web, deploying new features in areas like loan applications requires careful validation. Traditional testing with real user data, especially personally identifiable information (PII), presents significant challenges. Synthetic transactions offer a solution, enabling the…
Explore Salesforce OAuth Authorization Flows and Its Use Cases
Have you authorized an application to access Salesforce without giving your credentials to that application? Then, you must have used a Salesforce OAuth authorization flow. OAuth is a standard for authorization. Salesforce uses several OAuth flows, and all these flows…
AI Against AI: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence To Detect Deepfakes and Vishing
In today’s digital age, the proliferation of Deepfake technology and voice phishing (vishing) tactics presents a significant challenge to the authenticity and security of digital communications. Deepfakes manipulate audio and video to create convincing counterfeit content, while vishing exploits voice…
Unveiling the Power of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Concerns about internet privacy and security are more common than ever in the quickly changing digital environment. As individuals and organizations participate in a variety of online activities, the necessity to protect sensitive information has resulted in the widespread use…
Fortifying Web Applications: A Guide To Preventing SQL Injection in AWS RDS SQL Server
SQL injection remains one of the most pernicious forms of security vulnerabilities facing databases today. This attack method exploits security weaknesses in an application’s software by injecting malicious SQL statements into an execution field. For databases hosted on Amazon RDS…
Automating Policy Enforcement in Kubernetes Using OPA: A Step-By-Step Tutorial
In the rapidly evolving world of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto orchestration tool, enabling businesses to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications with unparalleled efficiency. However, as the complexity of deployments grows, ensuring compliance and governance…
Best Practices To Secure Stateless REST Applications
Statelessness in RESTful applications poses challenges and opportunities, influencing how we manage fundamental security aspects such as authentication and authorization. This blog aims to delve into this topic, explore its impact, and offer insights into the best practices for handling…
Build a Flow Collectibles Portal Using Cadence (Part 2)
Welcome to the final step in creating your Collectibles portal! (for part 1, see here). In this part, we’ll focus on building the front end — the last piece of the puzzle. Here’s what we’ll achieve: This article has been…
Security Best Practices for Docker Images
Docker images play a pivotal role in containerized application deployment. They encapsulate your application and its dependencies, ensuring consistent and efficient deployment across various environments. However, security is a paramount concern when working with Docker images. In this guide, we…
Web Application Security: The Ultimate Guide to Coding Best Practices
Web applications have become deeply integrated into business operations and everyday life. However, this reliance also introduces major security risks if applications are not properly coded and configured. Implementing secure coding practices is, therefore, essential for any web application. Not…
The Art of Ethical Hacking: Securing Systems in the Digital Age
In today’s world, where everything is connected to the internet, cybersecurity is more significant than ever. Cyberattacks can cause serious damage to individuals, businesses, and governments by stealing data, disrupting services, or compromising systems. To prevent these attacks, we must…
Secure Your API With These 16 Practices With Apache APISIX (Part 1)
A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon this list of 16 practices to secure your API: Authentication: Verifies the identity of users accessing APIs. Authorization: Determines permissions of authenticated users. Data redaction: Obscures sensitive data for protection. Encryption: Encodes data…
Enabling Compliance and Security in AI-Driven, Low-Code/No-Code Development
AI is rapidly changing the way that people develop and build their own apps, automation, and copilots, helping enterprises improve efficiency and outputs without further straining IT and the help desk. While this is leveling the playing field for software…