Cybersecurity

This second post in a series about security and DevOps describes how to build hardened server images with Chef.

This first post in a series about security and DevOps describes how to bootstrap development of a virtual test server.

Image copyright 2016 by Kharnagy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Lately I have been spending a lot of time with a new best friend.

Billions of internet-connected devices are now online and talking amongst themselves. To secure them, vendors need to design them to avoid surprises they didn’t intend.

During his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama announced an Executive Order on Cyber-Security. The full text is available in many places, including Wired.

Soon, I will be moving the securitymetrics.org website to a simpler, secure and more usable system—the same platform that powers Markerbench. It should be done in time for Mini-Metricon (March 1st, 2013).