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Top 5 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Challenges

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Top 5 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Challenges

Infrastructure as code (IaC), an essential component of contemporary software, enables developers to spin up software infrastructure while offering systems the ability to grow in a flexible and on-demand manner. Tools that make these configurations based on a programmatic method fall under the category of IaC, including: AWS CloudFormation Azure Resource Manager Helm Charts Progress Chef Puppet Red Hat Ansible Terraform IaC has altered the process of deploying environments for online services and applications. Rather…

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Azure vs AWS Developer Tools

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Azure vs AWS Developer Tools

Cloud computing has evolved to become the foundation for most organizations’ data, workload storage, and operations. Advancements in cloud technologies has been a critical driver of digital transformation, accelerating growth and productivity while reducing the operational costs of manual processes. This has enabled enterprises to scale easily without the headache of the physical addition of on-premises servers. There are several cloud vendors that organizations use to achieve this. The most dominant leaders are Amazon Web…

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) vs Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source system that simplifies container orchestration through several built-in features. Without a tool like Kubernetes, it would be almost impossible to manually deploy and manage containers using command line on a large scale. How to manage Kubernetes Kubernetes requires high-level skills to deploy, configure, and manage a cluster. Many organizations lack the in-house resources needed to make the most of Kubernetes — and those that do have the resources…

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Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

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Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities Workload Security AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365 – learn how to protect against their common vulnerabilities. By: Jiri Sykora, Sunil Bharti May 19, 2022 Read time:  ( words) What is AADInternals? AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365. As the name suggest it deals with…

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Virtual Machine vs Container

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Virtual Machine vs Container

The difference between virtual machines and containers Virtual machines (VMs) and containers are as similar as they are different. They each have their own unique characteristics and use cases that separate them from each other. However, they are similar in that they can be used either together, or interchangeably, to enhance IT and DevOps efficiency. Great, all that sounds fine and dandy, but what are virtual machines and containers actually used for? I’m glad you…

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Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

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Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

The Challenge With a brand-new account, your initial configuration sets the tone. With existing accounts, the challenge is twofold. The first is the team working with that account will already be used to operating under the existing configuration. And since they’ve been doing it this way for a while and things are working, there’s no motivation to change. The second challenge is on the technical side. Can these guardrails be implemented without breaking anything inside…

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Terraform Tutorial: Drift Detection Strategies

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Terraform Tutorial: Drift Detection Strategies

A common misconception among DevOps teams using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools is that the templates they use to run their deployments are infallible sources of truth. Instead, a fundamental challenge of architectures built using tools like Terraform is configuration drift. This occurs when the actual state of your infrastructure begins to accumulate changes and deviates from the configurations defined in your code. Configuration drift can occur for many reasons, regardless of how good your…

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IaC: Azure Resource Manager Templates vs. Terraform

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IaC: Azure Resource Manager Templates vs. Terraform

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of configuring infrastructure through code instead of manually. A manual process requires operators and system administrators to configure any changes to the infrastructure. Using IaC, DevOps teams can store the infrastructure configuration code and application code in a centralized repository. IaC ensures consistent and more secure deployment. By avoiding error-prone manual configuration and deployment, security standards and policies are easier to maintain. And, DevOps engineers can improve scalability…

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Microservice Security: How to Proactively Protect Apps

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Microservice Security: How to Proactively Protect Apps

Microservice Security: How to Proactively Protect Apps Serverless Security Microservices are growing in popularity—how can development teams embed seamless security into the entire pipeline? Fernando Cardoso, solutions architect at Trend Micro, breaks it down for you. By: Melanie Tafelski, Fernando Cardoso January 19, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Microservices Overview As many organizations moved to serverless functions to maximize agility and performance in the cloud, microservices became the new go-to design architecture for modern web…

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Apache Log4j: Mitigation for DevOps

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Apache Log4j: Mitigation for DevOps

Apache Log4j: Mitigation for DevOps Cloud Native What can DevOps teams do to mitigate Apache Log4j risks? Explore how to secure your apps for today and against future vulnerabilities. By: Melanie Tafelski January 05, 2022 Read time:  ( words) What is Apache Log4j? You’ve most likely heard of the critical flaw CVE-2021-44228, discovered in the popular Java-based library, Apache Log4j. Nicknamed Log4Shell, it impacts numerous Apache projects, including Druid, Dubbo, Flink, Flume, Hadoop, Kafka, Solr, Spark,…

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