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Beyond OPA Gatekeeper: Enterprise-scale Admission Control for Kubernetes

OPA Gatekeeper is the most popular solution for enforcing admission control policies on Kubernetes clusters. It was designed for policy management on a single cluster. Styra DAS (built by the creators of OPA) aims to provide the next step for enterprise companies with centralized policy management over tens or hundreds of clusters and policy use cases beyond Kubernetes. In this post, we explain how Styra DAS differs from OPA Gatekeeper and how our enterprise focus led to different design decisions.

Automating Kubernetes Backups with CloudCasa REST APIs

For power users who want to run their scripts from the command line or use workflow automation tools to provision their environments, watch this short tutorial on how to use the CloudCasa REST API to manage Kubernetes backups. The tutorial goes through an example of executing a CloudCasa backup job through the REST API, which requires tasks such as querying for backup job ids and invoking an action against that job through an http request.

[Webinar] How You Should Not Remediate Your Hardcoded Secrets

If you have ever run a secrets scanner against your entire codebase, it has likely raised hundreds if not thousands of findings, leaving you wondering, "Where should I start?" Unlike other vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets represent a threat by themselves whether your code is running or not. Attackers with access to a repository will scan it inside out for secrets, turning every occurrence into a risk you cannot ignore. Still, this does not mean that you should treat all incidents equally!

Domain member: Digitally encrypt secure channel data

Digitally Encrypt Secure Channel Data is a security setting used for digitally securing the data that’s transmitted over the secure data channel network. The data transmitted between the domain member and the domain controller must be encrypted and secured with the latest technology to ensure that no unauthorized user gets access to the confidential data.
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The Life of the Sysadmin: A Patch Tuesday Story

The System Administrator! AKA the Sysadmin. The keeper of the network, computers – well basically all things technology. The one who is hated for imposing complex passwords and other restrictions, but taken for granted when everything works well. They are the first to be called when “facebuuk.com” reports: “domain does not exist”.

Accelerated Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation, and More Cyber Resiliency In 2023

In this episode of 2023 Predictions, Sathya Sankaran, General Manager of CloudCasa by Catalogic, speaks with Swapnil Bhartiya on his insights into where he sees the industry heading in 2023. The pandemic resulted in the acceleration of cloud adoption and digital transformation and Sathya expects this momentum to continue in 2023 as well.

Top Open Source Licenses Explained

With an understanding of what open source licenses are and their benefits, it’s also useful to know what are the main categories of these licenses, the different types, and their requirements. It’s quite an array, which can be overwhelming, but with this knowledge, you can make more informed choices about what software and what licenses are right for your purposes.

Accelerating Secure Infrastructure Deployments with Policy-as-Code Authorization

Styra is today introducing a better way for platform engineering teams to empower hundreds or thousands of developers and accelerate their infrastructure deployments, including the broadest policy library and infrastructure authorization toolset for Kubernetes, Terraform and CloudFormation.