When my company launched in October 2015, few security folks even knew what software containers were. We might as well have been securing shipping containers! Development and DevOps teams, on the other hand, already were enthusiastically embracing software containers because of the speed and agility they bring to the application delivery process. Plus, containers enabled…
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At first glance, the Watch Dogs video games seem like far-fetched fantasy, depicting a world of constant surveillance, ubiquitous hackability, and authorities eavesdropping on citizens to prevent crimes before they happen. But the more you peer beneath the covers, the more you realize how close the games are to reality and the more you see…
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Creating secure software and systems has never been more challenging. An explosion in the number of devices that hook into company data, coupled with increased mobility and a shift to cloud services and storage, has dramatically increased the potential attack surface of most organizations. More than 9 billion data records have been lost or stolen…
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All of our critical computing devices have a Jar Jar Binks processor. That is, they have little common sense, they’re easy to manipulate, and they’re unable to distinguish good from bad. Just like the floppy-eared version in Star Wars, Jar Jar Binks processors are well-meaning but incredibly easy to trick. This is exactly what allows…
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