Many organizations have DevOps on their mind going into 2019. This is a global movement. In fact, Puppet and Splunk received responses for their 2018 State of DevOps Report from organizations on every continent except Antarctica. Those organizations varied in their industry, size and level of DevOps maturity, but they were all interested in learning how they could advance their DevOps evolution going forward.

Typically, people think of security threats as outside attacks on an organization. Data security plans tend to focus on securing the perimeter, endpoints, email and data. Though these are certainly critical measures, all organizations should realize the real threat that insiders, or internal employees, pose to operations.

Meet the hacker europa, a white hat hacker on the Detectify Crowdsource platform. He is based in Italy with a great passion for infosec and relatively new to the bug bounty scene, but seasoned in infosec. We asked him about the kind of bugs he likes to find, why he joined Crowdsource and how persistence helped him turn a duplicate finding into a bug with 8 different bypasses.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Looks like 2019 starts as busy as the previous year ended, breaches and failures all around. Let’s start with a pretty dumb but not uncommon issue – someone entering the wrong email address. How bad can that go?

Developed by Lockheed Martin, the Cyber Kill Chain® (CKC) framework is part of the Intelligence Driven Defense® model for the identification and prevention of cyber intrusions activity. The model identifies what adversaries must complete in order to achieve their objective.

We are pleased to announce the release of the ionCube24 app for iOS and Android! With it, you can access ionCube24 wherever you are and monitor your site for performance and security issues. This is a big step forward for ionCube24 giving you ease of access for monitoring your website wherever you are. With notifications and in-app management options you can be aware of issues immediately and act fast. Take a look below to see what the ionCube24 app can do.

In this latest SnapSecChat video series, our CSO, George Gerchow, talks about the imperative for building the next-gen security operations center (SOC) of the future. Why? Because today’s IT landscape is becoming increasingly complex and cloud-based.