Practical Technology

I used to like Malcolm Gladwell. And, I still think “Outliers,” “Blink,” and “The Tipping Point” are excellent books. But, sometimes, even brilliant people can make dumb mistakes. Case in point: Gladwell recently said, “It’s not in your best…Read More

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks don’t need to be big to wreak havoc on a target, but it doesn’t hurt. In the latest biggest of all times attacks, Google fended off an HTTPS DDoS attack, which peaked at 46 million requests per second…Read More

Okta, a trusted identity and access management (IAM) company, has been a big believer in zero trust security for years. Now, according to its latest survey, Zero trust adoption has “reached a tipping point.” What kind of tipping point? Ninety-seven…Read More

Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) memory encryption technology sounded like such a good idea back in 2015. This set of security instructions would enable programmers to set up protected private memory regions, called enclaves. Within them, data…Read More

Microsoft and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, have announced native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04. While open-source .NET has long been available in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, this collaboration by Microsoft and Canonical will…Read More

Read now DevOps, the portmanteau of development and operations, has long been key to integrating building software and deploying it. Recently, companies such as Cloudify have used the same technique to bridge the gap between your homebrew…Read More