Microsoft misconfigurations expose millions of records globally
Monday, November 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
In September 2024, significant data exposure was discovered within Microsoft Power Pages, a low-code SaaS platform, due to misconfigured access controls. The exposure, which potentially affected millions of individuals, highlights the risks associated with excessive permissions granted to the platform's "Anonymous" and "Authenticated" user roles....
AWS App Studio lands from Amazon
Friday, August 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
At AWS Summit New York, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announced the release of AWS App Studio, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service that uses natural language to create enterprise-grade applications. A user simply describes the application they want, what they want it to do, and the data sources they want to integrate with, and in just minut...
Software cyberattack predictions for 2022
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Nigel Thorpe hails from a software development background and moved to the IT security industry with Entrust Technologies during the early days of PKI. His knowledge has benefited a number of security companies in the UK, Canada, and the USA, and he now serves as Technical Director at SecureAge Technology. With a wide range of experience in different business environmen...
The rise of microservices with Anypoint Service Mesh
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
MuleSoft has announced Anypoint Service Mesh, a new solution that dramatically simplifies how companies can discover, manage and secure microservices. Anypoint Service Mesh brings security and reliability to any microservices-based application, regardless of language or deployment model, freeing developers from custom code. Customers can also now publish and discov...
Data Catalog is now available in public beta
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
At Google Cloud Next '19 San Francisco, Google introduced Data Catalog, a fully managed, data discovery and metadata management service that allows you to quickly discover, manage, and understand your data in Google Cloud. We're announcing that Data Catalog is now available in public beta.
Simple and powerful data discovery
Data analysts can now use Data C...
Legacy system gridlock overcome in OutSystems 11
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
OutSystems announced the release of OutSystems 11, a low-code solution to address one of the biggest issues facing IT teams - legacy system gridlock. Building on its low-code platform for web and mobile apps, OutSystems 11 delivers new advanced capabilities to help organizations modernize legacy systems and replace large application portfolios.
“The legac...
Tips for securing container deployments
Friday, September 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Container deployments are still susceptible to the regular threats that other types of deployments are - including DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. In fact, hackers often take advantage of compromised containers to scan sensitive data, download malware, or privilegeunauthorized access to any of your containers, hosts or data centers.Fei Huang is the CEO of NeuVect...
The intersection of AR, IoT, and Apps in the legal realm
Thursday, April 27, 2017 by Adam Grant
In 2007 the Apple gave us the iPhone and Apps became the rage. While the term “Internet for things” was first coined 1999 by Kevin Ashton (one of the founders of the original Auto-ID Center at MIT), in 2013 the Global Standards Initiative on Internet of Things defined the term as “the infrastructure of the information society.” AR, or Augmented Reality, unlike virtual r...
Biometric authentication for your apps from Appdome and BehavioSec
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appdome, a cloud service that automates mobile integration by fusing new services to mobile apps, is partnering up with biometric authentication technology company, BehavioSec. Appdome for BehavioSec now enables mobile developers and mobility professionals (such as mobile fraud, IT, or Security groups) to rapidly integrate advanced biometric and behavior based authentic...
MultiTenant vs. Single Tenant: Choosing the right DBaaS Data Store from the start
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Michael Russo
The Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) model is an attractive option for rapid deployment of managed database assets in the cloud. If you’re thinking of using a DBaaS to power your cloud-based application’s database, you’ll want to understand the pros and cons of multi-tenant versus single-tenant datastores for housing your data. Both approaches have merit and by understandi...
ContainerX Releases New Integration with VMware's vSphere
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
ContainerX has released a new beta integration with VMware’s vSphere into its container platform that is IT managed, with developer self-service using standard Docker CLI.ContainerX offers a solution for multi-tenant container management, including orchestration, compute, network and storage management. ContainerX’s Elastic Container Clusters and Container Pools provide...
New Salesforce App Cloud Offers Platform for Building Connected Apps
Monday, September 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Salesforce has released the Salesforce App Cloud offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS), which offers new Salesforce platform services such as Force, Heroku Enterprise and Lightning with new shared identity, data and network services to create connected apps. The new App Cloud provides the ability to build, scale and deploy mobile, web and wearable apps in a uni...
Heroku's Private Spaces Brings New Levels of Security for Apps in the Cloud
Monday, September 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Heroku’s new Private Spaces, now in limited beta, offers a new Heroku runtime that provides a way to isolate network applications and data services in the cloud. It provides a network isolated group of apps and data services with a dedicated runtime environment, provisioned to Heroku in a specific geographic region. Private Spaces is powered by Heroku Dogwood, a new run...
Red Hat Satellite is Updated for Container Management, Security and Provisioning
Friday, August 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite 6.1, Red Hat’s systems management solution for managing Red Hat infrastructure. New additions to the platform bring upgraded security enhancements, enhanced discovery and container management capabilities across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Container ManagementTo support new cont...
DreamFactory REST API Platform Now Available on Verizon Cloud
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory’s REST API platform is being combined with Verizon’s cloud services to deliver a cloud-first development environment to help developer's prototype, deploy and scale applications for mobile, web, and IoT. The new DreamFactory-Verizon Partner Solutions portal provides a way for developers to access RESTful API services hosted on IaaS, plus the portal fac...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
Splunk Cloud Now Available on 10 AWS Regions
Monday, April 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Splunk has announced the general availability of the Splunk Cloud through nine Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global regions and will soon be available in AWS GovCloud. Company’s can choose SaaS or self-managed software deployments of the Splunk Cloud which offers an enterprise-ready cloud service with a 100 percent uptime service level agreement (SLA) and scalability of 10...
Three HIPAA Safeguards You Need in Place When Building An App Today
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Jason Wang
If you’re building the next mhealth or wearable technology, you’ve no doubt grappled with the challenge of determining whether you need to be HIPAA compliant or not. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal law that mandates how patient data is stored, handled and utilized. With changes to the legislation in September ...
A Look Ahead: The Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Its time for the prognosticators to get out their crystal balls and make predictions for 2015. And as it relates to the top 10 technology strategic trends, Gartner has done just that. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on an organization in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact includ...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
Amazon Web Services Announces the General Availability of Zocalo Document Storage and Sharing Service
Sunday, August 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Zocalo has been available in a limited preview since early July and now the Amazon Web Services team is making Zocalo generally available to all AWS customers. There's a 30-day free trial (200 GB of storage per user for up to 50 users), after that its $5 per user per month.As part of this move to general availability, Amazon is also announcing that AWS CloudTrail...
raw engineering Releases the contentstack.io Mobile first Enterprise Content Management System
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
raw engineering has released contentstack.io, a mobile-first content management system (CMS) for the enterprise. contentstack.io provides the ability for an enterprises to accelerate content delivery across all web properties, web apps, mobile sites and mobile apps.Built on top raw engineering’s mobile platform built.io, contentstack.io facilitates publishing conte...
AppGyver and built.io Team Up for Enterprise App Development Using HTML5
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppGyver is combing its front end tools with built.io’s back end to offer a new option for enterprise app development using HTML5.AppGyver’s Steroids SDK utilizes native UI components with navigation and animations, together with the HTML5 wrapped application to create hybrid apps. AppGyver Prototyper can be used to build app prototypes which can be tested and demo...
Samsung and Fingerprint to Help App Developers Market to Kids With New App Network Targeting Southeast Asia and Oceania
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Samsung and Fingerprint have announced they are co-developing a kids' mobile app network enabling play-based learning for kids 3-to-7 years old.
Expected to launch in Southeast Asia and Oceania in Q1 2014, the new service on select Samsung devices offers a safe and fun environment for kids to play and learn. Parents can create a family account for multiple c...
