IAM Best Practices

IAM stands for “Identity and Access Management.” IAM provides answers to the fundamental question in DevOps: “Who can access what?” The roots of IAM go back to the early days of computing, where users of UNIX systems needed a username…

BlackLotus Bookit Found Targeting Windows 11

Sold for around $5,000 in hacking forums, the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit is capable of targeting even updated systems, researchers find. This article has been indexed from Dark Reading Read the original article: BlackLotus Bookit Found Targeting Windows 11

Dumb Password Rules

Examples of dumb password rules. There are some pretty bad disasters out there. My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation systems to fail. Some of the systems on the list are…

How To Handle Secrets in Python

We live in a world where applications are used to do everything, be it stock trading or booking a salon, but behind the scenes, the connectivity is done using secrets. Secrets, such as database passwords, API keys, tokens, etc., must…