The modern data stack represents the evolution of data management, shifting from traditional, monolithic systems to agile, cloud-based architectures. It’s designed to handle large amounts of data, providing scalability, flexibility, and real-time processing capabilities. This stack is modular, allowing organizations…
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Setup With Pritunl
Overview This documentation provides a comprehensive guide to setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) server using Pritunl, a popular open-source VPN server management platform. By following these steps, users can establish a secure and private network infrastructure suitable for…
Mitigating Adversarial Attacks: Strategies for Safeguarding AI Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential across industries, yet its vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses significant risks. Adversarial attacks, in which meticulously crafted inputs deceive AI models, can undermine system reliability, safety, and security. This article explores key strategies for…
Incident Management: Checklist, Tools, and Prevention
What Is Incident Management? Incident management is the process of identifying, responding, resolving, and learning from incidents that disrupt the normal operation of a service or system. An incident can be anything from a server outage, a security breach, a…
Decrypting the Future: Unveiling Questions on AI’s Role in Cybersecurity
According to a report by MarketsandMarkets, the global AI in cybersecurity market is projected to skyrocket from $8.8 billion in 2020 to an estimated $38.2 billion by 2026, marking a staggering 23.3% compound annual growth rate during the forecast period.…
iOS Application Security for Beginners
This article provides a brief overview of techniques that can be used in your mobile iOS application to keep it secure enough for the vast majority of cases. If you are a junior or middle iOS developer and have not…
Cybersecurity in the Cloud: Integrating Continuous Security Testing Within DevSecOps
Cloud computing has revolutionized software organizations’ operations, offering unprecedented scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in managing digital resources. This transformative technology enables businesses to rapidly deploy and scale services, adapt to changing market demands, and reduce operational costs. However, the transition…
Ensuring Security and Compliance: A Detailed Guide to Testing the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Flow in Python Web Applications
Creating an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server from scratch involves understanding the OAuth 2.0 framework and implementing its various components, such as the authorization endpoint, token endpoint, and client registration. In this detailed guide, we’ll walk through building a simple OAuth…
Unpacking Our Findings From Assessing Numerous Infrastructures (Part 2)
When superior performance comes at a higher price tag, innovation makes it accessible. This is quite evident from the way AWS has been evolving its services: gp3, the successor of gp2 volumes: Offers the same durability, supported volume size, max IOPS…
Secure Your API With These 16 Practices With Apache APISIX (Part 2)
Last week, we listed 16 practices to help secure one’s APIs and described how to implement them with Apache APISIX. Authentication: Verifies the identity of users accessing APIs. Authorization: Determines permissions of authenticated users. Data Redaction: Obscures sensitive data for…
Guarding the Gates of GenAI: Security Challenges in AI Evolution
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…
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…