Policy as code is being explored by the industry as an alternative or expansion upon the long-term standards of role-based access control and entitlements. With policy as code, policies can be managed and automated using code written in a high-level language. It is a programmatic method of uniformly defining and enforcing policies throughout cloud native applications and their infrastructure ...

Software development is on the rise, and so are the expectations around its quality. When it comes to ensuring quality, there are various quality assurance (QA) techniques. As a tester, you can leverage different QA strategies, such as prioritizing and optimizing QA processes through CI/CD adoption, test orchestration, AI-based tooling, and more ...

According to the 2024 State of Open Source Report — from Perforce in collaboration with the Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation — 95% of respondents say that they have increased or maintained their use of open source in 2023 (33% of those significantly so) ...

Everyone can agree that application programming interface (API) security is important, but whose responsibility is it? Many organizations don't have a clear answer — and this presents a major opportunity for developers to step up into an important new role: API champion ...

As companies move more and more of their operations to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to ensure data integrity is maintained during migration. Data integrity in cloud-based environments is essential to ensuring that data remains accurate, consistent, and intact during migrations or transfers. However, cloud migration can be especially risky ...

The field of cloud native development is rapidly evolving, but during this shift to modern environments such as Kubernetes, many DevOps teams are putting security on the back burner in a rush to move to cloud native environments. This is opening the door to a wide array of new security risks and numerous opportunities for unscrupulous cybercriminals — and machine identities are a prime example of this ...

In today's hyper-connected and data-driven business landscape, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are the backbone of enterprise operations. These applications play a pivotal role in driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and fueling growth. However we must underscore the criticality and role of data protection measures, particularly as they relate to the rise of SaaS use and proliferation across companies worldwide, to ensure the resilience and continuity of business operations ...