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Monitoring Velero and Enabling Email Alerts for Kubernetes Backup and Restore Failures

Open source Velero is a popular choice amongst Kubernetes community for backup of their application. Along with scheduling regular backups for your Kubernetes clusters, monitoring Velero and getting automated alerts for failed Velero backups is also important. When your most important backup fails, you want to know about it immediately and make sure your application notifies you.

CVSS 4.0 - What's New?

The latest version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, CVSS 4.0, entered its public preview phase at the 35th annual FIRST conference put on by FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. An international confederation of computer incident response teams, FIRST writes the CVSS specification that plays such an important role in identifying and cataloging software and application vulnerabilities.

Guarding the Guardrails - Introducing Regal the Rego linter

Two years ago, I explored the idea of linting Rego with Rego on this blog, and how we could use the abstract syntax tree (AST) representation of a Rego policy as JSON input data, allowing us to write a “linter” for Rego using Rego itself. Open Policy Agent (OPA) is well-established for use cases like application authorization, cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes admission control, where we normally talk about policy as guardrails. But who’s guarding the guardrails?