DevOps Chat

One of the hottest new trends in the cybersecurity world is what is being called "Deception". While honeypots and such have been around for a long time, the idea of purposely deceiving your attackers has really gained momentum, especially in the age of APT (advanced persistent threats). The team at Illusive Networks has pioneered this approach to safeguarding your infrastructure. In this Security Boulevard Chat we sit down with Illusive Networks Ofer Israeli to discuss the "art of deception."

Rosalind Radcliffe is a treasure of the mainframe world. It is always an interesting interview whenever we get the chance to speak with her. In this chat, Rosalind updates us on the newest generation of Big Iron from IBM, the z14 systems. Rosalind also tells us about some of the new capabilities of z14 that allow you to go as fast as you need it in your organization. Rosalind says it is time to move away from thinking of bi-modal IT. Even multi-speed IT is outdated. Today's mainframe can keep up with anything you throw at it.

Michael Kaczmarksi is an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career at IBM he has obviously seen technologies come and go. Michael gives us an inside look at IBM's Cloud Private offering and how it relates to DevOps, Service management, hybrid cloud and so many other contemporary technologies in the market today.

In this DevOps Chat we are joined by Andy Richman of Park My Cloud and Samir Mehra of Cloud Health Technologies. Both of these cloud experts give sound advice on how you can best and most efficiently manage your cloud infrastructure whether it is on AWS, Azure, Google or anywhere else. If you are interested in optimizing your cloud deployments (who isn't?), then have a listen.

They already number in the billions, but connected devices or IoT were not all built with security as top of mind.

In this chat we speak with Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, a global leader in digital security for connected systems and devices. Mike tells what to do with your legacy devices and systems to help make them more secure and what to look for in systems going forward so that you can be as secure as possible.

Great practical advice.

In this DevOps Chat find out how the developers of Wolfpack (http://wolfpack.run) are saving over 50% of their prior costs for cloud by using Park My Cloud's cloud management platform.

Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs of these apps can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to cloud bills. In this chat we speak with Jonathan Chashper, CEO of Wolfpack about how his company got a handle on the cloud and is saving over 50% of what they were paying before.

Microservices and Containers: Mastering the Re-Platforming of the IT Infrastructure

The re-platforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case today. The term digital transformation is in the hearts, minds and on the lips of top-level business executives and IT leaders alike. The underlying traditional or legacy infrastructures that have dominated enterprise IT for nearly 30 years simply cannot handle the workloads or power the applications that will drive business decisively forward.

Both microservices and containers are destined to play a major role in this enterprise re-platforming, for different reasons. Containers for their part hold significant benefits both for developers and the development effort as well as for the organization itself. Understanding this range of benefits is instrumental to securing IT budget for containers going forward.

In this interview, Jim Scott, director, enterprise strategy and architecture at MapR, can discuss the most promising and compelling tools, technologies and solutions destined to play a major role in this re-platforming of the enterprise. Jim will highlight how to stay one clear step ahead as IT undertakes what is arguably its most mission-critical task in a generation.

Chef Habitat is growing up. Along the way it is really becoming quite a useful platform for application automation, including beefing up your security and compliance. We had a great update from the Chef team on what is new with Habitat. We have two Chef folks, Jaime Winsor, a co-author of Habitat and Tasha Drew, senior product manager and Blake Irvin of SmartB, a Habitat user.

Chef has spent a lot of time bringing security and compliance into the software development lifecycle (SDLM). They have several solutions both open source and commercial which can help with your DevSecOps practice. I had a chance to sit down with Dan Hauenstein and Dominick Richter. Dominick is one of the founding members of dev-sec.io and co-creator of Chef Compliance.

Container adoption rates are skyrocketing. Securing these environments is both a tremendous opportunity and a daunting challenge. Aqua Security has taken on this challenge. With their most recent funding announcement and other momentum news, they are making their play to lock down the container security market and establish themselves as the market leader.

I had a chance to catch up with Rani Osnat of Aqua to hear about their funding news, how they are going to use the money and what the challenges are in the container security space.