The technology investment company Prosus has announced its intent to acquire the online development community Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. According to Stack Overflow, this acquisition will enable it to continue to operate as an independent company, but with the backing of a “global technology powerhouse.” “Prosus is one of the world’s leading technology investors … continue reading
Facebook announced PyTorch will become the company’s default AI framework at its developer conference F8 Refresh this week. PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework that the company co-created with AI researchers in 2016. By making PyTorch the default framework for all of its AI and machine learning models, the company believes its research and … continue reading
Checkmarx is the global leader in providing software security solutions that unify with modern application development initiatives like DevOps to reduce and remediate risk from software vulnerabilities. Checkmarx delivers the industry’s most comprehensive suite of Application Security Testing solutions and is trusted by more than 40 of the Fortune 100 companies and half of the … continue reading
Robert Haynes, open source and SCA evangelist at Checkmarx As the Application Security Testing (AST) pioneer and leader, Checkmarx has been relentless in our mission to continuously innovate, leading the industry with solutions that measurably improve security for software-driven organizations that develop their own applications. The Checkmarx suite of AST solutions fits perfectly into modern … continue reading
Recent large-scale attacks on enterprise and infrastructure security have led the federal government and private businesses to rethink the way they manage security. Last month’s ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline shut down the main part of its network for five days, affecting fuel supplies across the United States. Additionally, an attack on SolarWinds infrastructure … continue reading
As organizations look towards DevSecOps as a way to infuse security throughout the software development life cycle while at the same time accelerating releases, more sides of the business have their hands on deck regarding security. However, it’s still the security side that’s on the hook when a major breach happens. “People like to say … continue reading
Spectral’s newly released Preflight solution is an open-source tool designed to help developers defend against supply chain attacks by automatically verifying and safely executing a user’s CI and third-party scripts. The solution queries popular anti-malware services to verify and block binaries if they contain malware. “Hackers have become increasingly sophisticated, with a variety of tools, … continue reading
Application security initiatives and programs are getting good at getting down to where an organization’s data lives and protecting it against threats, but that is only one piece of the security puzzle. With limited amounts of time, resources and people available to tackle security, organizations have had to prioritize what gets protected. “For instance, an … continue reading
Too many companies are missing a key software component in their businesses: their software bill of materials (SBOM). A SBOM is a list of all the components that make up a piece of software. According to Brian Fox, chief technology officer at Sonatype, while some may think it is a trivial requirement, it provides transparency … continue reading
Today’s companies are drowning in bits and bytes. According to Hubspot, the average enterprise manages 347.56 TB of data, while Splunk claims 55% of business data is unused. It’s obvious that organizations need to utilize data more effectively. When they do, they’re in a better position to enable effective value stream management. Both data and … continue reading
Cloudera has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (“CD&R”) and KKR for $5.3 billion in cash, which will result in Cloudera becoming a private company. “This transaction provides substantial and certain value to our shareholders while also accelerating Cloudera’s long-term path to hybrid cloud leadership for analytics that … continue reading
This issue of SD Times features a look at how low code meets the urgency of a rapidly changing world, how open source is more of a community than a brand, and shifting security left. … continue reading
