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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

This underscores the pressing importance for security researchers and cybersecurity professionals to work together to evaluate risks, devise defenses and team up with governments and corporations to safeguard our resources. As technology advances, so too does the sophistication of threats to these essential systems.

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Broadcom Software: Taming IT Complexity through Effective Strategies and Partnerships

CIO

IT complexity, seen in spiraling IT infrastructure costs, multi-cloud frameworks that require larger teams of software engineers, the proliferation of data capture and analytics, and overlapping cybersecurity applications, is the hallmark—and also the bane—of the modern enterprise. 81% believe that reducing it creates a competitive advantage.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

After trying all options existing on the market — from messaging systems to ETL tools — in-house data engineers decided to design a totally new solution for metrics monitoring and user activity tracking which would handle billions of messages a day. Kafka groups related messages in topics that you can compare to folders in a file system.

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Using Honeycomb for LLM Application Development

Honeycomb

LLMs are nondeterministic black boxes that people use in ways you can’t possibly predict while still in development. Developing apps around LLMs creates an entire host of challenges that can’t be debugged in local development. These systems are powerful and they play a role similar to unit testing.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA and NSA Dive into CI/CD Security, While MITRE Ranks Top Software Weaknesses

Tenable

Plus, check out the 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. Also, what developers like about AI tools – and what they don’t. National Cyber Security Centre) “ Four critical steps for CI/CD security ” (SC Magazine) 2 – MITRE ranks nastiest software weaknesses MITRE’s annual list of the most dangerous software weaknesses is out.

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Using Your Pipelines To Harden Your Pipelines: The Importance of CI/CD Security for Your Software Supply Chain

Prisma Clud

As the systems we use to deliver software to the cloud get more complex and reliant on third-party components, they also leave more opportunities for attacks. Just last year, software supply chain attacks jumped 51% , which is proof that bad (and creative) actors are capitalizing on these weaknesses.