How Steampipe enables KPIs as code

How Steampipe enables KPIs as code

Ciaran Finnegan is the cybersecurity practice lead at CMD Solutions Australia and Phil Massyn is a senior security consultant there. About a year ago they began using Steampipe and its CrowdStrike plugin to scan their customers’ AWS environments.Now Finnegan and...
How Steampipe enables KPIs as code

Why zero knowledge matters

The information age continues to unfold in fits and starts, and the rise of blockchain is among the most compelling current trends. It turns out that public key cryptography, a long stable technology, was latent with undiscovered possibilities. Blockchain is a...
How Steampipe enables KPIs as code

Complexity is the enemy of cloud security

It’s a fact that most enterprises put security teams and tools in a silo. It drives me nuts when I see these bad habits carried over to cloud computing security. I covered this topic three years ago, and for the most part, it’s unchanged.Many of today’s security...
How Steampipe enables KPIs as code

What observability means for cloud operations

Observability is one of those concepts being tossed about these days in the tech press and at cloud computing conferences. Everyone has a definition of what it is and how it’s used. No two are the same.Observability seems to be mostly defined as the ability to...