by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2023 | Security
If there is anything that keeps cloud development leaders up at night, it’s the fact that the risk of an impending security breach is scarily high. If I go around the room at any enterprise development meeting, devops engineers, cloud developers, and cloud architects...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2023 | Security
Oracle is open-sourcing Jipher, a Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) provider built for security and performance that has been used by the company’s cloud platform, the company said on November 7.Jipher was developed for environments with FIPS (Federal Information...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2023 | Security
Since the proliferation of large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, and Google’s PaLM 2, we have seen an explosion of generative AI applications in almost every industry, cybersecurity included. However, for a majority of LLM applications,...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 9, 2023 | Security
Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and open source, specifically. I’m on the record with 908 words of eyeroll for the Open Enterprise Linux Association and OpenTofu, given the conspicuous absence of cloud vendor support. Yet I’ve also...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 2, 2023 | Security
Open source is everywhere; a Synopsys study found that 96% of all software code bases analyzed included open source software. That’s the good news. Ironically, it’s also the bad news, as the very pervasiveness of open source introduces risk. Decades ago, proprietary...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 25, 2023 | Security
In the technology world, the latter half of the 2010s was mostly about slight tweaks, not sweeping changes: Smartphones got slightly better, and computer processing somewhat improved. Then OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT in 2022 to the public, and—seemingly all at once—we...
