Returning from Saturday’s LechazoConf 2017, a conference about failures (and successes) of entrepreneurs/startups in Castilla-Leon (and Spain). I enjoyed the conference! Organization was awesome, content was nice, and the lechazo was great (I am from Traspine...
The conversation surrounding application security could go a thousand different directions, technology is a massive landscape after all. For the purposes of this discourse, our focus will be on three particular arms of appsec. Perhaps we could call them the G...
The GDPR is Promoting a Culture Change About Data Privacy The importance and need for security have never been greater, particularly with personal and data security. Among all the great benefits of technology—the internet and the resulting global co...
The concept of open source software has shifted considerably from what some enterprises once thought about it. Any negative thoughts then were all misconceptions or not understanding what open source really is. Considering open source software is often free o...
Open-source licensing isn’t as complicated as license agreements go. Some people find it confusing, and businesses must pay close attention to how the licenses work. Making a mistake in one direction can result in legal action. Erring in the other direction c...
Cybersecurity often seems like an expensive proposition to many companies. There are annual evaluations to make sure you’re maintaining compliance, expensive programs to put in place, and extensive measures that have to be taken in order to provide true prote...
Malware has become a constant reality for most businesses. Ransomware alone cost around $5 billion in 2017–and those numbers are predicted to continue to rise in the coming years, potentially reaching as much as $11.5 billion by 2019. Prot...
When we think of security, especially the deep embedded and core measures introduced by DevSecOps, we often think of these measures in terms of insurance – and rightly so. We associate such security measures with protection, like keeping the software developm...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was the product of a conference of software developers in 1998 in Palo Alto, California. OSI has been established as a global non-profit organization that encourages, promotes, and protects open source software development and...
Working in the open source industry is a very rewarding career move, especially since the future of it looks bright. With statistics showing more companies are going to rely on open source applications in the future to save money buying commercial p...
DevOps has been a revolution in software development. It brings together software creation, deployment, and management into a single process. Development and operations may become a single team; if not, the teams work very closely together. The benefit is bet...
Many of the software products that everyone uses are open source. The Linux operating system, the Apache Web server, and a large number of software development systems are all open-source software. Their being open source is one of the reasons they’re so wide...
