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Given there’s a lot of talk about containerisation in the applications marketplace at the moment, this post is intended to provide a light introduction to the subject with a few pointers on security.
Given there’s a lot of talk about containerisation in the applications marketplace at the moment, this post is intended to provide a light introduction to the subject with a few pointers on security.
We’ll start at the beginning and ramp up really quickly. DevOps is a portmanteau of development and operations. We can consider it to mean automation of platform operations, or scripted operations.
Wikipedia has the following definition:
"DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software delivery process that emphasizes communication and collaboration from concept to market, including product management, software development, and operations professionals.
A few months ago, I was working on a risk assessment with a business and one of the most extreme threats, beyond targeted malware, was an attack by a nation state. Given the nature of the business being assessed wasn't involved in, or related to critical infrastructure, and the IP wasn't such that it was of national or military importance to gain leverage, we gave the risk a low rating. In recent months, due to the leaking of custom malware developed by the NSA, the tools considered available only to nation states are now available to everyone. Where the internet democratised the attack vectors employable against entities with an online presence, the leak of custom, targeted malware, has lowered the barrier to entry such that even non-sophisticated malicious actors can leverage the experience, expertise and destructive force of a nation state.
To begin, we'll take the following definitions of 'privacy' and 'information privacy' from the International Association of Privacy Professionals:
Broadly speaking, privacy is the right to be let alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Information privacy is the right to have some control over how your personal information is collected and used.
Following on from Encryption 101, this post will focus on different methods of Encryption, when they're applicable and why they are important.
Given there’s a lot of talk about containerisation in the applications marketplace at the moment, this post is intended to provide a light introduction to the subject with a few pointers on security.
We’ll start at the beginning and ramp up really quickly. DevOps is a portmanteau of development and operations. We can consider it to mean automation of platform operations, or scripted operations.
Wikipedia has the following definition:
"DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software delivery process that emphasizes communication and collaboration from concept to market, including product management, software development, and operations professionals.
A few months ago, I was working on a risk assessment with a business and one of the most extreme threats, beyond targeted malware, was an attack by a nation state. Given the nature of the business being assessed wasn't involved in, or related to critical infrastructure, and the IP wasn't such that it was of national or military importance to gain leverage, we gave the risk a low rating. In recent months, due to the leaking of custom malware developed by the NSA, the tools considered available only to nation states are now available to everyone. Where the internet democratised the attack vectors employable against entities with an online presence, the leak of custom, targeted malware, has lowered the barrier to entry such that even non-sophisticated malicious actors can leverage the experience, expertise and destructive force of a nation state.
To begin, we'll take the following definitions of 'privacy' and 'information privacy' from the International Association of Privacy Professionals:
Broadly speaking, privacy is the right to be let alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Information privacy is the right to have some control over how your personal information is collected and used.
Following on from Encryption 101, this post will focus on different methods of Encryption, when they're applicable and why they are important.
