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How Hardening is reflected in the different NIST Standards

NIST stands for National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST was founded in 1901 and is a part of the U.S Department of Commerce. It is one of the oldest physical science laboratories in the US and was formed to remove challenges related to industrial competitiveness.

NIST Cyber Security Framework - 5 Core Functions Infographic

Some standards, guidelines, and best practices to meet the industrial, public, and federal agencies’ needs in Cybersecurity are developed by NIST. The cybersecurity framework by NIST has an outcome-based approach and this set it to be applied in any sector and on any size of business. There are three basic pillars of the NIST cybersecurity framework, namely; The framework core has five major functions.

OPA Design Patterns: Offline Configuration Authorization

An OPA design pattern, as detailed in a previous post, gives you an architectural solution to solve one or more common policy problems. In this blog post, we describe what we call the Offline Configuration Authorization design pattern for OPA. Remember that each OPA design patterns covers the following information.

From WhiteSource to Mend-A Rebrand Journey

How important is a company name, really? Turns out that it is pretty important, especially if the name you currently have does not represent what the company has become, or where it is going. Our name is what defines the vision, spirit, and ethos of who we are and what we are trying to accomplish—the strategy, technology, and culture all rolled into one. It needs to be crisp, memorable, and legally acquirable. Guess what? It is harder than it looks…

WhiteSource is Now Mend: You Code, We Cure

In 2011, my co-founders Azi Cohen, Ron Rymon, and I founded WhiteSource with a mission to automate all tasks surrounding the use and security of open source software. We were pioneering the software composition analysis (SCA) market before it had a name. Over the years, we’ve evolved to offer more value to our customers beyond our founding purpose.

Mend Explainer

Mend, formerly known as WhiteSource, effortlessly secures what developers create. Mend uniquely removes the burden of application security, allowing development teams to deliver quality, secure code, faster. With a proven track record of successfully meeting complex and large-scale application security needs, the world’s most demanding software developers rely on Mend. The company has more than 1,000 customers, including 25 percent of the Fortune 100, and manages Renovate, the open source automated dependency update project.

What we learned at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022: From presentations to accolades

It was a busy week last week at KubeCon +CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia, Spain. It seemed like the entire world related to Kubernetes came together after two years of being apart. It was fulfilling meeting up with our peers and gaining market insight- face-to-face. Catalogic’s core messaging this year has revolved around cyber-resilience for data protection.