In Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), connectors help keep user accounts, roles, and access permissions in sync across your applications. What if you don’t deploy a connector? What about legacy and cloud applications that don’t support SCIM, or systems…
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Securing Converged AI-Blockchain Systems: Introducing the MAESTRO 7-Layer Framework
Introduction When an AI trading agent exploits a smart contract vulnerability, financial firms can lose millions in seconds. In 2024 alone, more than $1.42 billion vanished through smart contract exploits, with AI-enhanced systems showing particularly troubling weaknesses that traditional security…
DevSecConflict: How Google Project Zero and FFmpeg Went Viral For All the Wrong Reasons
Security research isn’t a stranger to controversy. The small community of dedicated niche security teams, independent researchers, and security vendors working on new products finds vulnerabilities in software and occasionally has permission to find and exploit them. This security industry…
When Chatbots Go Rogue: Securing Conversational AI in Cyber Defense
The evolution of conversational AI has introduced another dimension of interaction between businesses and users on the internet. AI chatbots have become an inseparable part of the digital ecosystem, which is no longer restricted to customer service or personalized suggestions.…
Iceberg Compaction and Fine-Grained Access Control: Performance Challenges and Solutions
Modern data lakes increasingly rely on Apache Iceberg for managing large analytical datasets, while organizations simultaneously demand fine-grained access control (FGAC) to secure sensitive data. However, combining these technologies can create unexpected performance bottlenecks that significantly impact query execution times.…
Zero Trust in API Gateways: Building Bulletproof Infrastructure With Istio and OPA
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…
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…