With the rise of remote work, especially in recent months, and the number of net-connected devices rising all the time, email is more relevant as ever. Indeed, as a form of unobtrusive communication and document sharing, email has pretty much cemented its position as the go-to tool for businesses of all sizes. Unfortunately, being the popular kid in school is not always a good thing – for a start, it has a way of making you look like an easy way in.
In this post, I want to share my observations of how SaaS companies approach the trade-off between having solid cloud infrastructure security and pissing off their own engineers by overdoing it. Security is annoying. Life could be much easier if security did not get in the way of getting things done.
Talks focused on Open Policy Agent (OPA) are featured prominently in the agenda for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe—15 OPA-focused sessions were accepted from users at Google, City of Ottawa, Ada Health and more—signaling the importance of authorization in the cloud. While the event and those talks are now on hold until August, that doesn’t mean we should postpone learning more about authorization within applications, across Kubernetes clusters and on top of service mesh.
By this stage, everyone is familiar with the phrase ‘social distancing’ and what it means with regards to shopping trips and exercise outdoors. Social distancing, as we all know by now, was introduced to slow down or, more hopefully, stop the spread of Coronavirus. Many companies are taking steps to enable as many people as possible to work from home.
You don’t need us to tell you that fraud and financial crime is on the rise. A quick google search will give you endless stats to support this claim. Fraud losses are increasing as a percentage of revenue, and that direct impact on the bottom line isan area of laser focus for senior execs.
Ensuring business continuity is the top priority of every organization. However, is it possible in the age of digital warfare? Today, businesses are at great risk from state-sponsored attacks, insider threats, external threats, organized crimes, and threats from hacktivists. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) including all types of viruses are sophisticated and fast and protecting endpoints has become a great challenge for enterprises.
