Podcasts about SDLC

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the crucial difference between ‘no-code AI solutions’ and ‘no work’ when using AI tools. You’ll grasp why seeking easy no-code solutions often leads to mediocre AI outcomes. You’ll learn the vital role critical thinking plays in getting powerful results from generative AI. You’ll discover actionable techniques, like using frameworks and better questions, to guide AI. You’ll understand how investing thought upfront transforms AI from a simple tool into a strategic partner. Watch the full episode to elevate your AI strategy! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-no-code-ai-tools-sdlc.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn – 00:00 In this week’s In Ear Insights, I have a bone to pick with a lot of people in marketing around AI and AI tools. And my bone to pick is this, Katie. There isn’t a day that goes by either in Slack or mostly on LinkedIn when some person is saying, “Oh, we need a no code tool for this.” “How do I use AI in a no code tool to evaluate real estate proposals?” And the thing is, when I read what they’re trying to do, they seem to have this idea that no code equals no work. That it’s somehow magically just going to do the thing. And I can understand the past tense aversion to coding because it’s a very difficult thing to do. Christopher S. Penn – 00:49 But in today’s world with generative AI, coding is as straightforward as not coding in terms of the ability to make stuff. Because generative AI can do both, and they both have very strong prerequisites, which is you gotta think things through. It’s not no work. Neither case is it no work. Have you seen this also on the various places we hang out? Katie Robbert – 01:15 Well, first, welcome to the club. How well do your ranty pants fit? Because that’s what you are wearing today. Maybe you’re in the ranty shirt club. I don’t know. It’s… I think we were talking about this last week because I was asking—and I wasn’t asking from a ‘I don’t want to do the work’ standpoint, but I was asking from a ‘I’m not a coder, I don’t want to deal with code, but I’m willing to do the work’ standpoint. And you showed me a system like Google Colab that you can go into, you can tell it what you want to do, and you can watch it build the code. It can either keep it within the system or you can copy the code and put it elsewhere. And that’s true of pretty much any generative AI system. Katie Robbert – 02:04 You can say, “I want you to build code for me to be able to do X.” Now, the reason, at least from my standpoint, why people don’t want to do the code is because they don’t know what the code says or what it’s supposed to do. Therefore, they’re like, “Let me just avoid that altogether because I don’t know if it’s going to be right.” The stuff that they’re missing—and this is something that I said on the Doodle webinar that I did with Andy Crestodina: we forget that AI is there to do the work for us. So let the AI not only build the code, but check the code, make sure the code works, and build the requirements for the code. Say, “I want to do this thing.” “What do you, the machine, need to know about building the code?” Katie Robbert – 02:53 So you’re doing the work to build the code, but you’re not actually coding. And so I think—listen, we’re humans, we’re lazy. We want things that are plug and play. I just want to press the go button, the easy button, the old Staples button. I want to press the easy button and make it happen. I don’t want to have to think about coding or configuration or setup or anything. I just want to make it work. I just want to push the button on the blender and have a smoothie. I don’t want to think about the ingredients that go into it. I don’t want to even find a cup. I’m going to drink it straight from the blender. Katie Robbert – 03:28 I think, at least the way that I interpret it, when people say they want the no code version, they’re hoping for that kind of easy path of least resistance. But no code doesn’t mean no work. Christopher S. Penn – 03:44 Yeah. And my worry and concern is that things like the software development lifecycle exist for a reason. And the reason is so that things aren’t a flaming, huge mess. I did see one pundit quip on Threads not too long ago that generative AI may as well be called the Tactical Debt Generator because you have a bunch of people making stuff that they don’t know how to maintain and that they don’t understand. For example, when you are using it to write code, as we’ve talked about in the past, very few people ever think, “Is my code secure?” And as a result, there are a number of threads and tweets and stuff saying, “One day I coded this app in one afternoon.” Christopher S. Penn – 04:26 And then, two days later, “Hey guys, why are all these people breaking into my app?” Katie Robbert – 04:33 It’s— No, it’s true. Yeah, they don’t. It’s a very short-sighted way of approaching it. I mean, think about even all the custom models that we’ve built for various reasons. Katie GPT—when was the last time her system instructions were updated? Even Katie Artifact that I use in Claude all the time—when was the last time her… Just because I use it all the time doesn’t mean that she’s up to date. She’s a little bit outdated. And she’s tired, and she needs a vacation, and she needs a refresh. It’s software. These custom models that you’re building are software. Even if there’s no, quote unquote, “code” that you can see that you have built, there is code behind it that the systems are using that you need to maintain and figure out. Katie Robbert – 05:23 “How do I get this to work long term?” Not just “It solves my problem today, and when I use it tomorrow, it’s not doing what I need it to do.” Christopher S. Penn – 05:33 Yep. The other thing that I see people doing so wrong with generative AI—code, no code, whatever—is they don’t think to ask it thinking questions. I saw this—I was commenting on one of Marcus Sheridan’s posts earlier today—and I said that we live in an environment where if you want to be really good at generative AI, be a good manager. Provide your employee—the AI—with all the materials that it needs to be set up for success. Documentation, background information, a process, your expected outcomes, your timelines, your deliverables, all that stuff. If you give that to an employee with good delegation, the employee will succeed. If you say, “Employee, go do the thing.” And then you walk off to the coffee maker like I did in your job interview 10 years ago. Katie Robbert – 06:26 If you haven’t heard it, we’ll get back to it at some point. Christopher S. Penn – 06:30 That’s not gonna set you up for success. When I say thinking questions, here’s a prompt that anybody can use for pretty much anything that will dramatically improve your generative AI outputs. Once you’ve positioned a problem like, “Hey, I need to make something that does this,” or “I need to fix this thing,” or “Why is this leaking?”… You would say, “Think through 5 to 7 plausible solutions for this problem.” “Rank them in order of practicality or flexibility or robustness, and then narrow down your solution.” “Set to one or two solutions, and then ask me to choose one”—which is a much better process than saying, “What’s the answer?” Or “Fix my problem.” Because we want these machines to think. And if you’re saying—when people equate no code with no think and no work— Yes, to your point. Christopher S. Penn – 07:28 Exactly what you said on the Doodle webinar. “Make the machine do the work.” But you have to think through, “How do I get it to think about the work?” Katie Robbert – 07:38 One of the examples that we were going through on that same webinar that we did—myself and Andy Crestodina—is he was giving very basic prompts to create personas. And unsurprisingly… And he acknowledged this; he was getting generic persona metrics back. And we talked through—it’s good enough to get you started, but if you’re using these very basic prompts to get personas to stand in as your audience, your content marketing is also going to be fairly basic. And so, went more in depth: “Give me strong opinions on mediocre things,” which actually turned out really funny. Katie Robbert – 08:25 But what I liked about it was, sort of to your point, Chris, of the thinking questions, it gave a different set of responses that you could then go, “Huh, this is actually something that I could build my content marketing plan around for my audience.” This is a more interesting and engaging and slightly weird way of looking at it. But unless you do that thinking and unless you get creative with how you’re actually using these tools, you don’t have to code. But you can’t just say, “I work in the marketing industry. Who is my audience?” “And tell me five things that I should write about.” It’s going to be really bland; it’s going to be very vanilla. Which vanilla has its place in time, but it’s not in content marketing. Christopher S. Penn – 09:10 That’s true. Vanilla Ice, on the other hand. Katie Robbert – 09:14 Don’t get me started. Christopher S. Penn – 09:15 Collaborate and listen. Katie Robbert – 09:17 Words to live by. Christopher S. Penn – 09:20 Exactly. And I think that’s a really good way of approaching this. And it almost makes me think that there’s a lot of people who are saying, somewhat accurately, that AI is going to remove our critical thinking skills. We’re just going to stop thinking entirely. And I can see some people, to your point, taking the easy way out all the time, becoming… We talked about in last week’s podcast becoming codependent on generative AI. But I feel like the best thinkers will move their thinking one level up, which is saying, “Okay, how can I think about a better prompt or a better system or a better automation or a better workflow?” So they will still be thinking. You will still be thinking. You will just not be thinking about the low-level task, but you still have to think. Christopher S. Penn – 10:11 Whereas if you’re saying, “How can I get a no-code easy button for this thing?”… You’re not thinking. Katie Robbert – 10:18 I think—to overuse the word think— I think that’s where we’re going to start to see the innovation bell curve. We’re going to start to see people get over that curve of, “All right, I don’t want to code, that’s fine.” But can you think? But if you don’t want to code or think, you’re going to be stuck squarely at the bottom of the hill of that innovation curve. Because if you don’t want to code, it’s fine. I don’t want to code, I want nothing to do with it. That means that I have made my choice and I have to think. I have to get more creative and think more deeply about how I’m prompting, what kind of questions I’m asking, what kind of questions I want it to ask me versus I can build some code. Christopher S. Penn – 11:10 Exactly. And you’ve been experimenting with tools like N8N, for example, as automations for AI. So for that average person who is maybe okay thinking but not okay coding, how do they get started? And I’m going to guess that this is probably the answer. Katie Robbert – 11:28 It is exactly the answer. The 5Ps is a great place to start. The reason why is because it helps you organize your thoughts and find out where the gaps are in terms of the information that you do or don’t have. So in this instance, let’s say I don’t want to create code to do my content marketing, but I do want to come up with some interesting ideas. And me putting in the prompt “Come up with interesting ideas” isn’t good enough because I’m getting bland, vanilla things back. So first and foremost, what is the problem I am trying to solve? The problem I am trying to solve is not necessarily “I need new content ideas.” That is the medicine, if you will. The actual diagnosis is I need more audience, I need more awareness. Katie Robbert – 12:28 I need to solve the problem that nobody’s reading my content. So therefore, I either have the wrong audience or I have the wrong content strategy, or both. So it’s not “I need more interesting content.” That’s the solution. That’s the prescription that you get; the diagnosis is where you want to start with the Purpose. And that’s going to help you get to a better set of thinking when you get to the point of using the Platform—which is generative AI, your SEO tools, your market research, yada yada. So Purpose is “I need to get more audience, I need to get more awareness.” That is my goal. That is the problem I am trying to solve. People: I need to examine, do I have the right audience? Am I missing parts of my audience? Have I completely gone off the deep end? Katie Robbert – 13:17 And I’m trying to get everybody, and really that’s unrealistic. So that’s part of it. The Process. Well, I have to look at my market research. I have to look at my customer—my existing customer base—but also who’s engaging with me on social media, who’s subscribing to my email newsletters, and so on and so forth. So this is more than just “Give me interesting topics for my content marketing.” We’re really digging into what’s actually happening. And this is where that thinking comes into play—that critical thinking of, “Wow, if I really examine all of these things, put all of this information into generative AI, I’m likely going to get something much more compelling and on the nose.” Christopher S. Penn – 14:00 And again, it goes back to that thinking: If you know five people in your audience, you can turn on a screen recording, you can scroll through LinkedIn or the social network of your choice—even if they don’t allow data export—you just record your screen and scroll (not too fast) and then hand that to generative AI. Say, “Here’s a recording of the things that my top five people are talking about.” “What are they not thinking about that I could provide content on based on all the discussions?” So you go onto LinkedIn today, you scroll, you scroll, maybe you do 10 or 15 pages, have a machine tally up the different topics. I bet you it’s 82% AI, and you can say, “Well, what’s missing?” And that is the part that AI is exceptionally good at. Christopher S. Penn – 14:53 You and I, as humans, we are focused creatures. Our literal biology is based on focus. Machines are the opposite. Machines can’t focus. They see everything equally. We found this out a long time ago when scientists built a classifier to try to classify images of wolves versus dogs. It worked great in the lab. It did not work at all in production. And when they went back to try and figure out why, they determined that the machine was classifying on whether there was snow in the photo or not. Because all the wolf photos had snow. The machines did not understand focus. They just classified everything. So, which is a superpower we can use to say, “What did I forget?” “What isn’t in here?” “What’s missing?” You and I have a hard time that we can’t say, “I don’t know what’s missing”—it’s missing. Christopher S. Penn – 15:42 Whereas the machine could go, knowing the domain overall, “This is what your audience isn’t paying attention to.” But that’s not no thinking; that’s not no work. That’s a lot of work actually to put that together. But boy, will it give you better results. Katie Robbert – 15:57 Yeah. And so, gone are the days of being able to get by with… “Today you are a marketing analyst.” “You are going to look at my GA4 data, you are going to tell me what it says.” Yes, you can use that prompt, but you’re not going to get very far. You’re going to get the mediocre results based on that mediocre prompt. Now, if you’re just starting out, if today is Day 1, that prompt is fantastic because you are going to learn a lot very quickly. If today is Day 100 and you are still using that prompt, then you are not thinking. And what I mean by that is you are just complacent in getting those mediocre results back. That’s not a job for AI. Katie Robbert – 16:42 You don’t need AI to be doing whatever it is you’re doing with that basic prompt 100 days in. But if it’s Day 1, it’s great. You’re going to learn a lot. Christopher S. Penn – 16:52 I’m curious, what does the Day 100 prompt look like? Katie Robbert – 16:57 The Day 100 prompt could start with… “Today you are a marketing analyst.” “You are going to do the following thing.” It can start there; it doesn’t end there. So, let’s say you put that prompt in, let’s say it gives you back results, and you say, “Great, that’s not good enough.” “What am I missing?” “How about this?” “Here’s some additional information.” “Here’s some context.” “I forgot to give you this.” “I’m thinking about this.” “How do I get here?” And you just—it goes forward. So you can start there. It’s a good way to anchor, to ground yourself. But then it has to go beyond that. Christopher S. Penn – 17:36 Exactly. And we have a framework for that. Huge surprise. If you go to TrustInsights.ai/rappel, to Katie’s point: the role, the action (which is the overview), then you prime it. You should—you can and should—have a piece of text laying around of how you think, in this example, about analytics. Because, for example, experienced GA4 practitioners know that direct traffic—except for major brands—very rarely is people just typing in your web view address. Most often it’s because you forgot tracking code somewhere. And so knowing that information, providing that information helps the prompt. Of course, the evaluation—which is what Katie’s talking about—the conversation. Christopher S. Penn – 18:17 And then at the very end, the wrap-up where you say, “Based on everything that we’ve done today, come up with some system instructions that encapsulate the richness of our conversation and the final methodology that we got to the answers we actually wanted.” And then that prompt becomes reusable down the road so you don’t have to do it the same time and again. One of the things we teach now in our Generative AI Use Cases course, which I believe is at Trust Insights Use Cases course, is you can build deep research knowledge blocks. So you might say, “I’m a marketing analyst at a B2B consultancy.” “Our customers like people like this.” “I want you to build me a best practices guide for analyzing GA4 for me and my company and the kind of company that we are.” Christopher S. Penn – 19:09 “And I want to know what to do, what not to do, what things people miss often, and take some time to think.” And then you have probably between a 15- and 30-page piece of knowledge that the next time you do that prompt, you can absolutely say, “Hey, analyze my GA4.” “Here’s how we market. Here’s how we think about analytics. Here’s the best practices for GA4.” And those three documents probably total 30,000 words. And it’s at that point where it’s not… No, it is literally no code, and it’s not entirely no work, but you’ve done all the work up front. Katie Robbert – 19:52 The other thing that occurs to me that we should start including in our prompting is the three scenarios. So, basically, if you’re unfamiliar, I do a lot of work with scenario planning. And so, let’s say you’re talking about your budget. I usually do three versions of the budget so that I can sort of think through. Scenario one: everything is status quo; everything is just going to continue business as usual. Scenario two: we suddenly land a bunch of big clients, and we have a lot more revenue coming in. But with that, it’s not just that the top line is getting bigger. Katie Robbert – 20:33 Everything else—there’s a ripple effect to that. We’re going to have to staff up; we’re going to have to get more software, more server, whatever the thing is. So you have to plan for those. And then the third scenario that nobody likes to think about is: what happens if everything comes crashing down? What happens if we lose 75% of our clients? What happens if myself or Chris suddenly can’t perform our duties as co-founders, whatever it is? Those are scenarios that I always encourage people to plan for—whether it’s budget, your marketing plan, blah blah. You can ask generative AI. So if you spent all of this time giving generative AI data and context and knowledge blocks and the deep thinking, and it gives you a marketing plan or it gives you a strategy… Katie Robbert – 21:23 Take it that next step, do that even deeper thinking, and say, “Give me the three scenarios.” “What happens if I follow this plan?” “Exactly.” “What happens if you give me this plan and I don’t measure anything?” “What happens if I follow this plan and I don’t get any outcome?” There’s a bunch of different ways to think about it, but really challenge the system to think through its work, but also to give you that additional information because it may say, “You know what? This is a great thought process.” “I have more questions for you based on this.” “Let’s keep going.” Christopher S. Penn – 22:04 One of the magic questions that we use with generative AI—I use it all the time, particularly requirements gathering—is I’ll give it… Scenarios, situations, or whatever the case may be, and I’ll say… “The outcome I want is this.” “An analysis, a piece of code, requirements doc, whatever.” “Ask me one question at a time until you have enough information.” I did this yesterday building a piece of software in generative AI, and it was 22 questions in a row because it said, “I need to know this.” “What about this?” Same thing for scenario planning. Like, “Hey, I want to do a scenario plan for tariffs or a war between India and Pakistan, or generative AI taking away half of our customer base.” “That’s the scenario I want to plan for.” Christopher S. Penn – 22:52 “Ask me one question at a time.” Here’s—you give it all the knowledge blocks about your business and things. That question is magic. It is absolutely magic. But you have to be willing to work because you’re going to be there a while chatting, and you have to be able to think. Katie Robbert – 23:06 Yeah, it takes time. And very rarely at this point do I use generative AI in such a way that I’m not also providing data or background information. I’m not really just kind of winging it as a search engine. I’m using it in such a way that I’m providing a lot of background information and using generative AI as another version of me to help me think through something, even if it’s not a custom Katie model or whatever. I strongly feel the more data and context you give generative AI, the better the results are going to be. Versus—and we’ve done this test in a variety of different shows—if you just say, “Write me a blog post about the top five things to do in SEO in 2025,” and that’s all you give it, you’re going to get really crappy results back. Katie Robbert – 24:10 But if you load up the latest articles from the top experts and the Google algorithm user guides and developer notes and all sorts of stuff, you give all that and then say, “Great.” “Now break this down in simple language and help me write a blog post for the top five things that marketers need to do to rank in 2025.” You’re going to get a much more not only accurate but also engaging and helpful post because you’ve really done the deep thinking. Christopher S. Penn – 24:43 Exactly. And then once you’ve got the knowledge blocks codified and you’ve done the hard work—may not be coding, but it is definitely work and definitely thinking— You can then use a no-code system like N8N. Maybe you have an ICP. Maybe you have a knowledge block about SEO, maybe you have all the things, and you chain it all together and you say, “I want you to first generate five questions that we want answers to, and then I want you to take my ICP and ask the five follow-up questions.” “And I want you to take this knowledge and answer those 10 questions and write it to a disk file.” And you can then hit—you could probably rename it the easy button— Yes, but you could hit that, and it would spit out 5, 10, 15, 20 pieces of content. Christopher S. Penn – 25:25 But you have to do all the work and all the thinking up front. No code does not mean no work. Katie Robbert – 25:32 And again, that’s where I always go back to. A really great way to get started is the 5Ps. And you can give the Trust Insights 5P framework to your generative AI model and say, “This is how I want to organize my thoughts.” “Walk me through this framework and help me put my thoughts together.” And then at the end, say, “Give me an output of everything we’ve talked about in the 5Ps.” That then becomes a document that you then give back to a new chat and say, “Here’s what I want to do.” “Help me do the thing.” Christopher S. Penn – 26:06 Exactly. You can get a copy at Trust Insights AI 5P framework. Download the PDF and just drop that in. Say, “Help me reformat this.” Or even better, “Here’s the thing I want to do.” “Here’s the Trust Insights 5P framework.” “Ask me questions one at a time until you have enough information to fully fill out a 5P framework audit.” “For this idea I have.” A lot of work, but it’s a lot of work. If you do the work, the results are fantastic. Results are phenomenal, and that’s true of all of our frameworks. I mean, go on to TrustInsights.ai and look under the Insights section. We got a lot of frameworks on there. They’re all in PDF format. Download them from anything in the Instant Insights section. You don’t even need to fill out a form. You can just download the thing and start dropping it. Christopher S. Penn – 26:51 And we did this the other day with a measurement thing. I just took the SAINT framework right off of our site, dropped it in, said, “Make, fill this in, ask me questions for what’s missing.” And the output I got was fantastic. It was better than anything I’ve ever written myself, which is awkward because it’s my framework. Katie Robbert – 27:10 But. And this is gonna be awkwardly phrased, but you’re you. And what I mean by that is it’s hard to ask yourself questions and then answer those questions in an unbiased way. ‘Cause you’re like, “Huh, what do I want to eat today?” “I don’t know.” “I want to eat pizza.” “Well, you ate pizza yesterday.” “Should you be eating pizza today?” “Absolutely.” “I love pizza.” It’s not a helpful or productive conversation. And quite honestly, unless you’re like me and you just talk to yourself out loud all the time, people might think you’re a little bit silly. Christopher S. Penn – 27:46 That’s fair. Katie Robbert – 27:47 But you can. The reason I bring it up—and sort of… That was sort of a silly example. But the machine doesn’t care about you. The machine doesn’t have emotion. It’s going to ask you questions. It’s not going to care if it offends you or not. If it says, “Have you eaten today?” If you say, “Yeah, get off my back,” it’s like, “Okay, whatever.” It’s not going to give you attitude or sass back. And if you respond in such a way, it’s not going to be like, “Why are you taking attitude?” And it’s going to be like, “Okay, let’s move on to the next thing.” It’s a great way to get all of that information out without any sort of judgment or attitude, and just get the information where it needs to be. Christopher S. Penn – 28:31 Exactly. You can also, in your digital twin that you’ve made of yourself, you can adjust its personality at times and say, “Be more skeptical.” “Challenge me.” “Be critical of me.” And to your point, it’s a machine. It will do that. Christopher S. Penn – 28:47 So wrapping up: asking for no-code solutions is fine as long as you understand that it is not no work. In fact, it is a lot of work. But if you do it properly, it’s a lot of work the first time, and then subsequent runs of that task, like everything in the SDLC, get much easier. And the more time and effort you invest up front, the better your life is going to be downstream. Katie Robbert – 29:17 It’s true. Christopher S. Penn – 29:18 If you’ve got some thoughts about no-code solutions, about how you’re using generative AI, how you’re getting it to challenge you and get you to do the work and the thinking, and you want to share them, pop by our free Slack group. Go to TrustInsights.ai/analyticsformarketers where you and over 4,200 marketers are asking and answering each other’s questions every single day. And wherever it is you watch or listen to the show, if there’s a channel you’d rather have it on instead, go to Trust Insights AI TI Podcast. You can find us at all the places fine podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in. I’ll talk to you on the next one. Speaker 3 – 29:57 Want to know more about Trust Insights? Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. 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In this episode, Michael Lieberman, Co-founder and CTO of Kusari, walks us through the intersection of open source software and security. We discuss Mike's extensive involvement in OpenSSF projects like SLSA and GUAC, which provide essential frameworks for securing the software development life cycle (SDLC) and managing software supply chains. He explains how these tools help verify software provenance and manage vulnerabilities. Additionally, we explore regulatory concerns such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the vital role of the recently released Open SSF Security Baseline (OSPS Baseline) in helping organizations comply with such regulations. Mike also shares insights into the evolution of open source security practices, the importance of reducing complexity for developers, and the potential benefits of orchestrating security similarly to Kubernetes. We conclude with a look at upcoming projects and current pilots aiming to simplify and enhance open source security.   00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 00:19 Mike's Background and Role in Open Source 01:35 Exploring SLSA and GUAC Projects 04:57 Cyber Resiliency Act Overview 06:54 OpenSSF Security Baseline 11:29 Encouraging Community Involvement 18:39 Final Thoughts   Resources: OpenSSF's OSPS Baseline GUAC SLSA KubeCon Keynote: Cutting Through the Fog: Clarifying CRA Compliance in C... Eddie Knight & Michael Lieberman   Guest: Michael Lieberman is co-founder and CTO of Kusari where he helps build transparency and security in the software supply chain. Michael is an active member of the open-source community, co-creating the GUAC and FRSCA projects and co-leading the CNCF's Secure Software Factory Reference Architecture whitepaper. He is an elected member of the OpenSSF Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council along with CNCF TAG Security Lead and an SLSA steering committee member.  

Mark Freydl (CEO/Founder @codiacio) talks about the challenges of blending IaaC, DevOps and Platform Engineering to drive efficient software development lifecycles.SHOW: 919SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #919 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:  http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Codiac websiteCodiac at Tech Field DayTopic 1 - Welcome to the show, Mark. Give everyone a quick introduction.Topic 2 - Before we dig into the tech, let's start with the problem. What problem were you seeing in software development that wasn't being solved with IaaC, Platform Engineering, DevOps, etc.? Where does SDLC fit into this? Topic 3 - Have microservices helped or hurt? We hear all the time about the loose coupling of microservices and benefits towards production, but doesn't that also make it harder to develop? How do you recreate an environment where you are dependent on a bunch of microservices in a development pipeline?Topic 4 - I get the feeling this is all about removing friction. But where and how? I see Kubernetes as a blessing and curse many times. It's an awesome application platform, as long as you aren't the one that has to do the care and feeding on it. Thoughts?Topic 5 - The goal here I believe is a closed loop system that is beneficial for developers and SRE's, but how do you balance closed loops vs. extensibility and abstraction of different platforms to the systems that are truly write once.Topic 6 - How does the culture and relationships in the org have to change to meet the changes in the tech?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agentic marketing. You’ll learn how MCP connects AI tools to automate tasks—but also why technical expertise is essential to use it effectively. You’ll discover the three layers of AI adoption, from manual prompts to fully autonomous agents, and why skipping foundational steps leads to costly mistakes. You’ll see why workflow automation (like N8N) is the bridge to agentic AI, and how to avoid falling for social media hype. Finally, you’ll get practical advice on staying ahead without drowning in tech overwhelm. Watch now to demystify AI's next big thing! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-what-is-mcp-agentic-ai-generative-ai.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn – 00:00 In this week’s In-Ear Insights, let’s talk about MCP—Model Context Protocol—and its applications for marketing and what it means. Katie, you said you have questions. Katie Robbert – 00:13 I do. I saw you posted in our free Slack group, Analytics for Marketers, towards the end of last week that one of the models had MCP available. When I see notifications like that, my first thought is: Is this something I need to pay attention to? Usually, you’re really good about letting me know, but I am a fully grown human who needs to be responsible for what I should be paying attention to and not just relying on the data scientist on my team. That was my first gut reaction—which is fair, because you’re a busy person. I like to keep you very busy, and you don’t always have time to let me know what I should be paying attention to. So that was problem one. Problem number two is, yes, you post things typically ahead of when they become more commonplace announcements. I saw a post this morning that I shared with you about MCP and agentic marketing processes, and how it’s going to replace your SEO if you’re doing traditional SEO. For some reason, that raised all of my insecurities and anxieties. Oh my gosh, I really am falling behind because I like to tell people about getting their foundation squared away. If I’m being really honest with myself, I think I focus on that because I feel so lost when I think about AI, agentic processes, MCP, N8N, and all these other things. So I’m like, let me focus on what I know best. But I am now in the boat where I feel like my boat is trailing behind the giant AI yacht. I’m dog-paddling to try to keep up, and I’m just not there. So help me understand a couple of things. One, what is MCP? Two, we’ve talked about agentic AI, but let’s talk about agentic marketing processes. And three, how is someone who isn’t in the weeds with AI every day supposed to not sit at their desk and cry over all of this? Those are big questions, so maybe let’s take them one at a time. All right, let’s start with: What is MCP? Christopher S. Penn – 02:36 Okay, MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. This is something initially advanced by Anthropic, the makers of Claude. It has since been adopted as a standard by OpenAI and now by Google. Sundar Pichai announced at Google Cloud Next last week that the Gemini family will adopt MCP. So what is this? It’s a way for a generative AI model to interface with other systems—a process called tool handling. MCP is a specific kind of tool. You create an MCP server that does stuff behind the scenes. It can be as simple as reading files from your disk or as complicated as using a bunch of SEO tools to optimize a page. It makes that keyword tool available in a tool like Claude Desktop. You could call the tool something like “Make a Katie Joke.” That would be the tool name. You would build an MCP server that talks to an LLM to do all these things behind the scenes. But in Claude, it would just appear as a little tool icon. You’d say, “Hey, Claude, use the Make a Katie Joke tool to make a joke that Katie would make,” and it would talk to that MCP server and kick off all these processes behind the scenes. So think of MCP as a kind of natural language API where, in a conversation with ChatGPT or Claude, you’d say, “Hey, write me some Google Ads with the Google Ads tool.” If you’ve built this tool for yourself or use one of the many free, open MCP servers available (which have data privacy issues), you can add new capabilities to generative AI that the tools don’t have on their own. The thing is, you still have to know what the tool does. You have to build it if it doesn’t exist, integrate it, and know when you should and shouldn’t use it. So as much as it may feel like you’re falling behind, believe it or not, your expertise is actually more important than ever for this. Even though we have MCP, N8N, and workflow automation, all that is software development. It still has to conform to the SDLC. You may not write code, but you better know the SDLC, or you’re going to waste a lot of time. Katie Robbert – 05:19 That’s helpful to know because, again, this may be—let me back up for a second. The information people share on social media is what they want you to see about them. They’re presenting their best selves. I understand that. I do that too as a representative of the company. That’s my job—to represent the best parts of what we do. And yet, my non-professional persona looks at what everyone else is sharing and thinks, Oh my gosh, I really am falling behind. And yet, here I am. My posts are right up there with the others. It’s like, no, I’m not. So I think that’s a little bit of the psychology of where a lot of people are feeling right now. We’re trying our best to look like we know what we’re talking about, but on a daily basis, we’re like, I have no idea what’s happening. So that’s part one. Now I understand what an MCP is. In a nutshell, it’s kind of like a connector between two systems. The commercial version is Zapier—a lot of marketers use Zapier. It’s like, how do I get my data from this place to that place? It transfers information from one system to another. Interestingly enough, I was at the animal shelter we work with yesterday, talking with the executive director. One of the problems she’s trying to solve is that she has literally hundreds of tabs in different spreadsheets of inventory at the shelter. They’re moving to a new shelter, and she’s trying to figure out where everything goes. I was describing to her a system—which doesn’t exist yet—that could include what you’re telling me is an MCP. In a very short version, I explained: We could take all your spreadsheets with all your tabs (which are basically your categories), put those into a database, and then layer generative AI on top of it with some system instructions. Your staff takes a picture of whatever’s been donated. Generative AI recognizes, Okay, that’s two bags of dog food, one thing of wet food, and some pee pads. It looks like those go in Room 121 with the other things, and it adds to the database. I was explaining this process without knowing what that connector was going to be. I said, Let me go back and talk to Chris about it. But I’m fairly certain that’s a thing that can exist. So it sounds like I was describing something I didn’t have the terminology for. Christopher S. Penn – 08:12 Exactly. Right now, here’s the thing—and this is something the LinkedIn hype crowd won’t tell you. As the average user, let me show you what the “getting started with MCP” quick start for non-technical users is. This is from Claude’s website: For Claude Desktop users, get started using MCP in Claude Desktop. First, install Claude Desktop. Second, go into the config file and edit this JSON. Katie Robbert – 08:41 You’ve already lost me. Christopher S. Penn – 08:42 Exactly. Oh, by the way, you also need Node.js on your computer for this to run properly. So when someone says MCP is the future and it’s so easy—well, yes, if you’re a technical person, that’s true. If you’re a non-technical person, this is useless because you’re not going to sit there and install Node.js just to configure a pre-built MCP server. You and your company—if you want to use these capabilities—need to have some IT resources because this is just straight-up IT. This isn’t even AI. This is just, Hey, you need these components in your kitchen before you can cook anything. As cool as MCP is (and believe me, it is very cool), it also has a very high technical bar of entry. So when you see somebody saying, Hey, this is the new AI-enabled MCP SEO, well, yes, that’s true. But what they’re not saying is, you’re probably not going to do this on your own if you’re a non-technical marketer. It’s a business ploy to say, You should hire us as your SEO firm because we’re AI-enabled and we know how to install MCP services. Like, yeah, I can do that too. I just don’t advertise it because it’s kind of a jerk move. Katie Robbert – 10:13 But I think that’s an important point to raise—not that you’re a jerk, but that a lot of us struggle with feeling like we’re not keeping up with AI because of these individuals—professionals, thought leaders, futurists, content creators—who put out this information: This is the future, this is how you’re going to do it. I can probably accurately describe agentic AI, but I couldn’t build it for you. And I think that’s where everyday marketers are struggling. Yeah, I think now I finally understand the concept, but I have no idea how to get started with the thing because there’s nothing out of the box for non-technical people. It’s all still, to your point, a lot of software development, a lot of IT. Even if it’s just installing things so you can get to the drag-and-drop, asking people to suddenly update their config file is maybe one step beyond their technical comfort zone. I just—I know the purpose of this episode is to understand more about MCP and agentic marketing, but I’m struggling to feel like I’m keeping up with being able to execute on all these things that are happening. Because every day, it’s something new, right? Christopher S. Penn – 11:54 So here’s how you get to MCP usage. First, you have to have the basics. Remember, we have the three layers we’ve talked about in the past: Done by you—You’re copy-pasting prompts. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s labor-intensive. If you’ve got a great prompt and a way of doing things that works, you’re already ahead of 95% of the crowd who’s still typing one-sentence prompts into ChatGPT. That’s step one. Done with you—How can you put that in some form of automation? We’ve talked about N8N in the past. I’ll give you an example: I put together a workflow for my newsletter where I say, Here’s my newsletter post. I want you to translate it into these four languages. It sends it to Google Gemini, then writes the updated versions back to my hard drive. This saves me about 20 minutes a week because I don’t have to copy-paste each prompt anymore. This is workflow automation. Done for you (Agentic)—To turn this into an MCP server (which makes it an agent, where I’m not part of the process at all), I’d add the MCP server node. Instead of saying, When manual start (when Chris clicks go), you’d have an MCP server that says, When a generative AI tool like Claude requests this, run the process. So, Claude would say, Hey, here’s this week’s newsletter—go make it. Claude Desktop would recognize there’s an Almost Timely Newsletter tool (an MCP server), send the request, the software would run, and when it’s done, it would send a message back to Claude saying, We’re done. That’s how MCP fits in. It takes the whole automation, puts it in a black box, and now it’s an agent. But you cannot build the agent without the workflow automation, and you cannot build the workflow automation without the standard operating procedure. If you don’t have that fundamental in place, you’re going to create garbage. Katie Robbert – 15:59 I think that’s also helpful because even just thinking about the step of translation—I’m assuming you didn’t just say, Hey, Gemini, translate this and accept whatever it gave back. You likely had to build system instructions that included, Translate it this way, then here’s how you’re going to double-check it, then here’s how you’re going to triple-check it. That to me is very helpful because you’re giving me confirmation that the foundational pieces still have to happen. And I think that’s where a lot of these content creators on social platforms talking about MCP and agentic AI are skipping that part of the conversation. Because, as we’ve said before, it’s not the fun stuff—it’s not the push-the-buttons, twist-the-knob, get-the-shiny-object part. It’s how you actually get things to work correctly. And that’s where, as a regular human, I get caught up in the hype: Oh, but they’re making it look so easy. You just do the thing. It’s like the people on social who post, Look how perfect my sourdough bread came out, but they’re not showing you the 17 loaves and five years of trial and error before this perfect loaf. Or they’re faking it with a mock background. I’m saying all this because I need that reminder—it’s all smoke and mirrors. There’s no shortcut for getting it done correctly. So when I see posts about agentic marketing systems and SEO and email marketing—You’re not even going to have to participate, and it’s going to get it right—I need that reminder that it’s all smoke and mirrors. That’s my therapy session for the morning. Christopher S. Penn – 18:33 And here’s the thing: If you have well-written standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are step-by-step, you can hand that to someone skilled at N8N to turn it into a workflow automation. But it has to be granular—Click here, then click here. That level of detail is so important. Once you have an SOP (your process), you turn it into workflow automation. Once the workflow automation works, you bolt on the MCP pieces, and now you have an agent. But here’s the danger: All these things use APIs, and APIs cost either time, money, or resources. I’m using Gemini’s free version, which Google trains on. If I was doing this for a client, I’d use the paid version (which doesn’t train), and the bills start coming in. Every API call costs money. If you don’t know what you’re doing and you haven’t perfected the process, you might end up with a five-figure server bill and wonder, What happened? Part of MCP construction and agentic AI is great development practices to make your code as efficient as possible. Otherwise, you’re going to burn a lot of money—and you may not even be cash-positive. Katie Robbert – 21:27 But look how fast it is! Look how cool it is! Christopher S. Penn – 21:36 It is cool. Katie Robbert – 21:38 Going back to the original question about MCP—I read a post this morning about agentic marketing systems using MCP and how it’s going to change the way you do SEO. It said it’s going to optimize your content, optimize for competitors, find keywords—all of which sounds really cool. But the way it was presented was like, Oh, duh, why am I not already doing this? I’m falling behind if I’m not letting the machines do my SEO for me and building these systems for my clients. This conversation has already made me feel better about where I am in terms of understanding and execution. Going back to—you still have to have those foundational pieces. Because agentic AI, MCPs, generative AI, shiny objects—it’s all just software development. Christopher S. Penn – 22:59 Exactly. It’s all software development. We’ve just gotten used to writing in natural language instead of code. The challenge with shiny objects is that the people promoting them correctly say, This is what’s possible. But at a certain point, even with agentic AI and MCP automations, it’s more efficient to go back to classical programming. N8N doesn’t scale as well as Python code. In the same way, a 3D printer is cool for making one thing at home, but if you want to make 10,000, classical injection molding is the way to go. New technology doesn’t solve old problems. Katie Robbert – 23:47 And yet, it’s going to happen. Well, I know we’re wrapping up this episode. This has been incredibly helpful and educational for me because every week there’s a new term, a new thing we’re being asked to wrap our heads around. As long as we can keep going back to It’s just software development, you still need the foundation, then I think myself and a lot of other people at my skill level are going to be like, Whew, okay, I can still breathe this week. I don’t have to panic just yet. Christopher S. Penn – 24:23 That said, at some point, we are going to have to make a training course on a system like N8N and workflow automation because it’s so valuable for the boring stuff—like keyword selection in SEO. Stay tuned for that. The best place to stay tuned for announcements from us is our free Slack group, Trust Insights AI Analytics for Marketers, where you and nearly 5,000 marketers are asking and answering each other’s questions every day about data science, analytics, and AI. Wherever you watch or listen to the show, if there’s a channel you’d rather have it on, go to trustinsights.ai/tipodcast to find us at all the places fine podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in—I’ll talk to you on the next one! (Transcript ends with AI training permission notice.) Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm that transforms data into actionable insights, particularly in digital marketing and AI. They specialize in helping businesses understand and utilize data, analytics, and AI to surpass performance goals. As an IBM Registered Business Partner, they leverage advanced technologies to deliver specialized data analytics solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. Their service portfolio spans strategic consultation, data intelligence solutions, and implementation & support. Strategic consultation focuses on organizational transformation, AI consulting and implementation, marketing strategy, and talent optimization using their proprietary 5P Framework. Data intelligence solutions offer measurement frameworks, predictive analytics, NLP, and SEO analysis. Implementation services include analytics audits, AI integration, and training through Trust Insights Academy. Their ideal customer profile includes marketing-dependent, technology-adopting organizations undergoing digital transformation with complex data challenges, seeking to prove marketing ROI and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Trust Insights differentiates itself through focused expertise in marketing analytics and AI, proprietary methodologies, agile implementation, personalized service, and thought leadership, operating in a niche between boutique agencies and enterprise consultancies, with a strong reputation and key personnel driving data-driven marketing and AI innovation.

We have a top ten list entry for Insecure Design, pledges to CISA's Secure by Design principles, and tons of CVEs that fall into familiar categories of flaws. But what does it mean to have a secure design and how do we get there? There are plenty of secure practices that orgs should implement are supply chains, authentication, and the SDLC. Those practices address important areas of risk, but only indirectly influence a secure design. We look at tactics from coding styles to design councils as we search for guidance that makes software more secure. Segment resources https://owasp.org/Top10/A042021-InsecureDesign/ https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1xBJR/keynote-rust-in-the-linux-kernel-a-new-era-for-cloud-native-performance-and-security-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-fellow-the-linux-foundation https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-325

We have a top ten list entry for Insecure Design, pledges to CISA's Secure by Design principles, and tons of CVEs that fall into familiar categories of flaws. But what does it mean to have a secure design and how do we get there? There are plenty of secure practices that orgs should implement are supply chains, authentication, and the SDLC. Those practices address important areas of risk, but only indirectly influence a secure design. We look at tactics from coding styles to design councils as we search for guidance that makes software more secure. Segment resources https://owasp.org/Top10/A042021-InsecureDesign/ https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1xBJR/keynote-rust-in-the-linux-kernel-a-new-era-for-cloud-native-performance-and-security-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-fellow-the-linux-foundation https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/ Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-325

We have a top ten list entry for Insecure Design, pledges to CISA's Secure by Design principles, and tons of CVEs that fall into familiar categories of flaws. But what does it mean to have a secure design and how do we get there? There are plenty of secure practices that orgs should implement are supply chains, authentication, and the SDLC. Those practices address important areas of risk, but only indirectly influence a secure design. We look at tactics from coding styles to design councils as we search for guidance that makes software more secure. Segment resources https://owasp.org/Top10/A042021-InsecureDesign/ https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1xBJR/keynote-rust-in-the-linux-kernel-a-new-era-for-cloud-native-performance-and-security-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-fellow-the-linux-foundation https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-325

We have a top ten list entry for Insecure Design, pledges to CISA's Secure by Design principles, and tons of CVEs that fall into familiar categories of flaws. But what does it mean to have a secure design and how do we get there? There are plenty of secure practices that orgs should implement are supply chains, authentication, and the SDLC. Those practices address important areas of risk, but only indirectly influence a secure design. We look at tactics from coding styles to design councils as we search for guidance that makes software more secure. Segment resources https://owasp.org/Top10/A042021-InsecureDesign/ https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1xBJR/keynote-rust-in-the-linux-kernel-a-new-era-for-cloud-native-performance-and-security-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-fellow-the-linux-foundation https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/ Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-325

The new DORA State of DevOps report explores the AI trust gap in the SDLC, culture's impact on DevOps success,  and the rise of platform engineering

Global Agile Summit Preview: How to Measure and Visualize Software Improvement for Actionable Results with Mooly Beeri In this BONUS Global Agile Summit preview episode, we explore how to effectively measure and visualize the continuous improvement journey in technology organizations. Mooly Beeri shares his data-driven approach that helps software teams identify where to focus their improvement efforts and how to quantify their progress over time. We discuss practical examples from major organizations like Philips and Aptiv, revealing how visualization creates an internal language of improvement that empowers teams while giving leadership the insights needed to make strategic decisions. Visualizing Software Development Effectiveness "We visualize the entire SDLC end-to-end. All the aspects... we have a grading of each step in the SDLC. It starts with a focus on understanding what needs to be done better." Mooly shares how his approach at Philips helped create visibility across a diverse organization built from numerous acquisitions with different technologies and development cultures. The challenge was helping management understand the status of software craftsmanship across the company. His solution was developing a heat map visualization that examines the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) - from requirements gathering through deployment and support - with an effectiveness index for each stage. This creates an at-a-glance view where management can quickly identify which teams need support in specific areas like automation, code reviews, or CI/CD processes. This visualization becomes a powerful internal language for improvement discussions, allowing focused investment decisions instead of relying on intuition or which team has the most persuasive argument. The framework creates alignment while empowering teams to determine their own improvement paths. Measuring What Matters: The Code Review Example "We often hear 'we have to do code reviews, of course we do them,' but when we talk about 'how well are they done?', the answer comes 'I don't know, we haven't measured it.'" When one team wanted to double the time invested in code reviews based on conference recommendations, Mooly helped them develop a meaningful measurement approach. They created the concept of "code review escapes" - defects that could have been caught with better code reviews but weren't. By gathering the team to evaluate a sample of defects after each iteration, they could calculate what percentage "escaped" the code review process. This measurement allowed the team to determine if doubling review time actually improved outcomes. If the escape rate remained at 30%, the investment wasn't helping. If it dropped to 20%, they could calculate a benefit ratio. This approach has been expanded to measure "escapes" in requirements, design, architecture, and other SDLC phases, enabling teams to consciously decide where improvement efforts would yield the greatest returns. Balancing Team Autonomy with Organizational Alignment "Our model focuses on giving teams many options on how to improve, not just one like from top-down improvements. We want to focus the teams on improving on what matters the most." Mooly contrasts his approach with traditional top-down improvement mandates, sharing a story from Microsoft where a VP mandated increasing unit test coverage from 70% to 80% across all teams regardless of their specific needs. Instead, his framework agrees on an overall definition of effectiveness while giving teams flexibility to choose their improvement path. Like athletes at different fitness levels, teams with lower effectiveness have many paths to improvement, while high-performing teams have fewer options. This creates a win-win scenario where teams define their own improvement strategy based on their context, while management can still see quantifiable progress in overall organizational effectiveness. Adapting to Different Industry Contexts "TIP: Keep the model of evaluation flexible enough to adapt to a team's context." While working across healthcare, automotive, and other industries, Mooly found that despite surface differences, all software teams face similar fundamental challenges throughout the development lifecycle. His effectiveness framework was born in the diverse Philips environment, where teams built everything from espresso machine firmware to hospital management systems and MRI scanners. The framework maintains flexibility by letting teams define what's critical in their specific context. For example, when measuring dynamic analysis, teams define which runtime components are most important to monitor. For teams releasing once every four years (like medical equipment), continuous integration means something very different than for teams deploying daily updates. The framework adapts to these realities while still providing meaningful measurements. Taking the First Step Toward Measured Improvement "Try to quantify the investment, by defining where to improve by how much. We encourage the team to measure effectiveness of whatever the practices are they need to improve." For leaders looking to implement a more measured approach to improvement, Mooly recommends starting by focusing teams on one simple question: how will we know if our improvement efforts are actually working? Rather than following trends or implementing changes without feedback mechanisms, establish concrete metrics that demonstrate progress and help calculate return on investment. The key insight is that most teams already value continuous improvement but struggle with prioritization and knowing when they've invested enough in one area. By creating a quantifiable framework, teams can make more conscious decisions about where to focus their limited improvement resources and demonstrate their progress to leadership in a language everyone understands. About Mooly Beeri Mooly Beeri is a software transformation expert with nearly 30 years of industry experience. As founder and CEO of BetterSoftware.dev, he developed a very practical and visual approach to visualize and measure the improvements in technology organizations like Microsoft, Phillips, and Aptiv. His data-driven approach helps organizations visualize and optimize their entire software development lifecycle through measurable improvements. You can link with Mooly Beeri on LinkedIn and visit Mooly Beeri's website.

Tanya Janca, author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding, discusses secure coding and secure software development life cycle with SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath. This session explores how integrating security into every phase of the SDLC helps prevent vulnerabilities from slipping into production. Tanya strongly recommends defining security requirements early, and discusses the importance of threat modeling during design, secure coding practices, testing strategies such as static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing (SAST, DAST and IAST), and the need for continuous monitoring and improvement after deployment. This episode is sponsored by Codegate.ai

Amazon Q Developer is streamlining the software development lifecycle by integrating AI-powered tools into AWS. In an interview at AWS in Seattle, Srini Iragavarapu, director of generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences at AWS, discussed how Amazon Q Developer enhances the developer experience. Initially focused on inline code completions, Amazon Q Developer evolved by incorporating generative AI models like Amazon Nova and Anthropic models, improving recommendations and accelerating development. British Telecom reported a 37% acceptance rate for AI-generated code.Beyond code completion, Amazon Q Developer enables developers to interact with Q for code reviews, test generation, and migrations. AWS also developed agentic frameworks to automate undifferentiated tasks, such as upgrading Java versions. Iragavarapu noted that internally, AWS used Q Developer to migrate 30,000 production applications, saving $260 million annually. The platform offers code generation, testing suites, RAG capabilities, and access to AWS custom chips, further flattening the SDLC by automating routine work. Listen to The New Stack Makers for the full discussion.Learn more from The New Stack about Amazon Q Developer: Amazon Q Developer Now Handles Your Entire Code Pipeline Amazon Q Apps: AI-Powered Development for All Amazon Revamps Developer AI With Code Conversion, Security Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game. 

Security expert Tanya Janca discusses her new book "Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding" and shares insights on making security accessible to developers. In this engaging conversation, she explores how security professionals can better connect with developers through threat modeling, maintaining empathy, and creating inclusive learning environments. Tanya emphasizes the importance of system maintenance after deployment and shares practical advice on input validation, while highlighting how security teams can build better relationships with development teams by avoiding arrogance and embracing collaboration.Tanya's new book:  Alice & Bob Learn Secure CodingThree Individuals that Tanya would like to introduce to you:Confidence Staveley https://confidencestaveley.com/Rana Khalil https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranakhalil1Laura Bell Main https://www.laurabellmain.com/FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The use of low-code has grown significantly and has been boosted by GenAI tools. These tools allow companies to work with partners to accelerate software development and rapidly bring new solutions to market. In this episode of HFS Unfiltered Stories, Joel Martin, Executive Research Leader at HFS Research, talks with SP Singh, SVP, Service Offering Head at Infosys.Find out how Infosys enables its customers to accelerate the SDLC with low-code and GenAI frameworks. Read the related research titled “The low-code imperative is crucial to bring speed and agility to software-driven outcomes” here: https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/the-low-code-imperative-is-crucial-to-bring-speed-and-agility-to-software-driven-outcomes/

* Chinese AI App DeepSeek Banned From Australian Government Devices* OpenAI Data Breach Alleged: 20 Million Logins Reportedly Stolen* Apple Removes Apps Infected with "SparkCat" Malware* Australian Healthcare Sector Hardest Hit by Cyberattacks: Report* Securing the No-Code SDLC: A New Approach NeededChinese AI App DeepSeek Banned From Australian Government Deviceshttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/chinese-ai-app-deepseek-banned-on-all-australian-government-devices/lm9udv4etThe Australian government has banned the use of the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek on all government-issued devices, citing national security concerns. This decision, effective immediately, follows warnings from intelligence agencies about the potential risks associated with the app.The ban comes amidst growing global concerns about the security and privacy implications of AI technologies developed in China.While the ban applies only to government entities, the government has urged Australians to be mindful of how their data is used online. This move follows a similar ban on the Chinese social media app TikTok earlier this year.DeepSeek's rapid rise to prominence has sparked a global debate about the future of AI development and the potential for geopolitical competition in this emerging field.OpenAI Data Breach Alleged: 20 Million Logins Reportedly Stolenhttps://gbhackers.com/openai-data-breach/A concerning claim has emerged on dark web forums, alleging the theft and subsequent sale of over 20 million OpenAI user login credentials.The anonymous threat actor, who posted the claim, is offering the credentials for sale, raising serious concerns about the security of OpenAI's user data.While the authenticity of this claim remains unconfirmed, the potential impact of such a breach is significant. OpenAI accounts are often used for critical tasks, including academic research, professional projects, and sensitive content generation.OpenAI has not yet publicly addressed these claims. However, users are advised to take immediate precautions, such as changing passwords and enabling two-factor authentication, to protect their accounts.This incident serves as a stark reminder of the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape and the importance of robust security measures for all online platforms, especially those handling sensitive user data.Apple Removes Apps Infected with "SparkCat" Malwarehttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/06/apple-removed-screen-reading-malware-apps/Apple has removed 11 iOS apps from the App Store after they were found to contain malicious code designed to steal sensitive information from users' devices.Security firm Kaspersky discovered the malware, dubbed "SparkCat," which utilizes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scan user photos for sensitive data, such as cryptocurrency recovery phrases.The malware targeted users in Europe and Asia, attempting to gain access to user photos and extract valuable information.Apple also identified an additional 89 apps that had previously been rejected or removed from the App Store due to fraud concerns and found to contain similar malicious code.This incident serves as a reminder for users to be cautious when downloading and installing apps from the App Store, particularly those from unknown developers. Apple recommends utilizing the App Privacy Report feature within the Settings app to monitor app access to sensitive data and avoid granting unnecessary permissions.By taking these precautions and exercising caution when downloading apps, users can significantly reduce their risk of exposure to malware and other malicious threats.Australian Healthcare Sector Hardest Hit by Cyberattackshttps://cybercx.com.au/resource/dfir-threat-report-2025/https://www.smh.com.au/technology/healthcare-and-finance-the-hardest-hit-by-cyberattacks-20250205-p5l9ns.htmlThe Australian healthcare sector faced the brunt of cyberattacks in the past year, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm CyberCX.The report revealed that healthcare accounted for 17% of all cyberattacks in Australia, followed by the financial services sector at 11%. The 2024 MediSecure data breach, impacting over 12 million Australians, stands as a stark reminder of the severity of these attacks.The report highlights a concerning trend: a significant increase in the time it takes to detect cyber espionage incidents, now averaging over 400 days. This suggests that attackers are becoming more sophisticated and persistent, operating within networks for extended periods.The report also emphasizes the growing prevalence of financially motivated attacks, with 65% of incidents driven by financial gain.These findings underscore the critical need for enhanced cybersecurity measures across all sectors, particularly in healthcare and finance where sensitive data is highly valuable.Securing the No-Code SDLC: A New Approach Neededhttps://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/02/10/securing-the-sdlc-for-no-code-environments/Traditional software development relies heavily on a structured SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) with security baked in at every stage. However, the rise of no-code development platforms has disrupted this model, presenting unique challenges for security teams.No-code platforms, which empower citizen developers to create applications with minimal coding, often bypass crucial SDLC stages like planning, analysis, and design. This lack of structured oversight can lead to critical security vulnerabilities.Traditional security measures, such as threat modeling and secure coding practices, are often impractical or inapplicable in the no-code environment.To effectively secure no-code development, organizations must adapt their approach. This involves:* Focusing on later stages: Shifting the focus towards later stages of the SDLC, such as implementation, testing, and maintenance, where security measures can be most effectively applied.* Implementing real-time security detection: Integrating automated tools that can detect vulnerabilities in real-time within the no-code platform itself.* Establishing robust testing and deployment policies: Mandating rigorous testing procedures and enforcing strict security checks before applications are deployed to production environments.* Leveraging platform-level security: Advocating for no-code platforms to incorporate built-in security features, such as pre-configured secure connectors and automated compliance checks.By adapting their approach and focusing on these key areas, organizations can empower citizen developers to innovate while ensuring the security and integrity of their no-code applications.Special Thanks to Bradley Busch for contributing some of the interesting stories for this week's cyber bites. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit edwinkwan.substack.com

On this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Emily Lint sits down with Paula Susman to discuss people managers and agile transformations; what is and is not necessary as an Agilist to help managers transform and how do you set yourself and managers or leaders up for success in the long run to let go of command-and-control. About the Featured Guest Paula Susman is an accomplished and solutions-driven Agile Coach with 8 years of multifaceted experience in Agile transformations, process improvement and team management. Proven track record of success in blending and building highly evolved teams with Agile approaches within the SDLC.  Follow Paula Susman on LinkedIn The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared. Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org    Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg  Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.   About our Host Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.  Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).    About our Sponsor Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

A lot of AI security boils down to the boring, but important, software security topics that appsec teams have been dealing with for decades. Niv Braun explains the distinctions between AI-related and AI-specific security as we avoid the FUD and hype of genAI to figure out where appsec teams can invest their time. He notes that data scientists have been working with ML and sensitive data sets for a long time, and it's good to have more scrutiny on what controls should be present to protect that data. This segment is sponsored by Noma Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/noma to learn more about them! An open source security project forks in response to license changes (and an echo of how we've been here before), car hacking via spectacularly insecure web apps, hacking a synth via spectacularly cool MIDI messages, cookie parsing problems, the RANsacked paper of 100+ LTE/5G vulns found from fuzzing, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-315

A lot of AI security boils down to the boring, but important, software security topics that appsec teams have been dealing with for decades. Niv Braun explains the distinctions between AI-related and AI-specific security as we avoid the FUD and hype of genAI to figure out where appsec teams can invest their time. He notes that data scientists have been working with ML and sensitive data sets for a long time, and it's good to have more scrutiny on what controls should be present to protect that data. This segment is sponsored by Noma Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/noma to learn more about them! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-315

A lot of AI security boils down to the boring, but important, software security topics that appsec teams have been dealing with for decades. Niv Braun explains the distinctions between AI-related and AI-specific security as we avoid the FUD and hype of genAI to figure out where appsec teams can invest their time. He notes that data scientists have been working with ML and sensitive data sets for a long time, and it's good to have more scrutiny on what controls should be present to protect that data. This segment is sponsored by Noma Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/noma to learn more about them! An open source security project forks in response to license changes (and an echo of how we've been here before), car hacking via spectacularly insecure web apps, hacking a synth via spectacularly cool MIDI messages, cookie parsing problems, the RANsacked paper of 100+ LTE/5G vulns found from fuzzing, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-315

A lot of AI security boils down to the boring, but important, software security topics that appsec teams have been dealing with for decades. Niv Braun explains the distinctions between AI-related and AI-specific security as we avoid the FUD and hype of genAI to figure out where appsec teams can invest their time. He notes that data scientists have been working with ML and sensitive data sets for a long time, and it's good to have more scrutiny on what controls should be present to protect that data. This segment is sponsored by Noma Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/noma to learn more about them!  Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-315

rhino.ai delivers services-as-software solutions that combine IT, app development, and business requirements to deliver platform agnostic IT and business outcomes. In this episode of HFS Unfiltered Stories, Joel Martin, Executive Research Leader at HFS Research, is in conversation with Himanshu Arora, Chief Operating Officer at rhino.ai Topics covered include: Legacy Technology Debt and AI Transition Revolutionizing Software Development with Universal Application Notation (UAN) and the Universal Application Notation (UAN) Benefits Platform's Unique Features and Scalability Ava's Integration and App Modernization Improving Application Design and Naming Exploring AI Integration and Collaboration Don't buy GenAI tools that only improve software development and SDLC productivity, look for solutions that solve business outcomes. For more in-depth information, read the associated Point of View titled, “rhino.ai brings genAI and BRDs to automated software development”, here: https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/rhino-ai-brings-genai-brds/

In this New Stack Makers, Codiac aims to simplify app deployment on Kubernetes by offering a unified interface that minimizes complexity. Traditionally, Kubernetes is powerful but challenging for teams due to its intricate configurations and extensive manual coding. Co-founded by Ben Ghazi and Mark Freydl, Codiac provides engineers with infrastructure on demand, container management, and advanced software development life cycle (SDLC) tools, making Kubernetes more accessible.Codiac's interface streamlines continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), reducing deployment steps to a single line of code within CI/CD pipelines. Developers can easily deploy, manage containers, and configure applications without mastering Kubernetes' esoteric syntax. Codiac also offers features like "cabinets" to organize assets across multi-cloud environments and enables repeatable processes through snapshots, making cluster management smoother.For experienced engineers, Codiac alleviates the burden of manually managing YAML files and configuring multiple services. With ephemeral clusters and repeatable snapshots, Codiac supports scalable, reproducible development workflows, giving engineers a practical way to manage applications and infrastructure seamlessly across complex Kubernetes environments.Learn more from The New Stack about deploying applications on Kubernetes:Kubernetes Needs to Take a Lesson from Portainer on Ease-of-Use Three Common Kubernetes Challenges and How to Solve Them Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game. 

In this week's interview, Melinda Marks' joins us to discuss her latest research. Her recent report Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development delves into many aspects and trends affecting AppSec as it matures, particularly in cloud-first organizations. We also discuss the fuzzy line between "cloud-native" AppSec and everything else that refuses to disappear, particularly for organizations that weren't born cloud-native and still have legacy workloads to worry about. Integrating security into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) trends, best of breed vs platform, and other aspects of AppSec get discussed as well! This week, in the Application Security News, we spend a lot of time on some recent vulnerabilities. We take this opportunity to talk about how to determine whether or not a vulnerability is worth a critical response. Can AI fully automate DevSecOps Governance? Adrian has his reservations, but JLK is bullish. Is it bad that 70% of DevSecOps professionals don't know if code is AI generated or not? All that and more on this week's news segment. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-307

In this week's interview, Melinda Marks' joins us to discuss her latest research. Her recent report Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development delves into many aspects and trends affecting AppSec as it matures, particularly in cloud-first organizations. We also discuss the fuzzy line between "cloud-native" AppSec and everything else that refuses to disappear, particularly for organizations that weren't born cloud-native and still have legacy workloads to worry about. Integrating security into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) trends, best of breed vs platform, and other aspects of AppSec get discussed as well! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-307

In this week's interview, Melinda Marks' joins us to discuss her latest research. Her recent report Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development delves into many aspects and trends affecting AppSec as it matures, particularly in cloud-first organizations. We also discuss the fuzzy line between "cloud-native" AppSec and everything else that refuses to disappear, particularly for organizations that weren't born cloud-native and still have legacy workloads to worry about. Integrating security into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) trends, best of breed vs platform, and other aspects of AppSec get discussed as well! This week, in the Application Security News, we spend a lot of time on some recent vulnerabilities. We take this opportunity to talk about how to determine whether or not a vulnerability is worth a critical response. Can AI fully automate DevSecOps Governance? Adrian has his reservations, but JLK is bullish. Is it bad that 70% of DevSecOps professionals don't know if code is AI generated or not? All that and more on this week's news segment. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-307

In this week's interview, Melinda Marks' joins us to discuss her latest research. Her recent report Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development delves into many aspects and trends affecting AppSec as it matures, particularly in cloud-first organizations. We also discuss the fuzzy line between "cloud-native" AppSec and everything else that refuses to disappear, particularly for organizations that weren't born cloud-native and still have legacy workloads to worry about. Integrating security into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC) trends, best of breed vs platform, and other aspects of AppSec get discussed as well! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-307

Send us a textDiscover the hidden threats lurking in your kitchen appliances and learn why your next air fryer might be spying on you. On this episode of the CISSP Cyber Training Podcast, we unravel the alarming findings from Infosecurity Magazine about Chinese IoT devices and their potential to invade your privacy. We emphasize the critical importance of educating ourselves and others about the risks of IoT devices and the vast amounts of data they can collect. Additionally, we highlight new ICO regulations that aim to bolster data protection, especially for international companies, ensuring they uphold stringent privacy standards.But that's not all! We shift gears to explore Agile development practices, diving into the adaptability and feedback loops of Scrum and the high-security approach of the spiral model. Discover how the Capability Maturity Model's pinnacle stage fosters continuous improvement and learn the essentials of integrating security into the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline without sacrificing speed. We also delve into the nuances of pair programming for enhanced code quality and clarify the distinct approaches of Scrum's time-boxed sprints versus Kanban's work-in-progress limits. Tune in for a comprehensive look at modern software development practices and the indispensable role of security in our digital world.Gain access to 60 FREE CISSP Practice Questions each and every month for the next 6 months by going to FreeCISSPQuestions.com and sign-up to join the team for Free. That is 360 FREE questions to help you study and pass the CISSP Certification. Join Today!

Send us a textUnlock the secrets of integrating security within every phase of software development as we tackle Domain 8 of the CISSP exam. Our exploration begins with a deep dive into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and its various methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, and DevSecOps. Through a gripping tale of a Disney World IT insider's digital manipulation, we underscore the critical importance of safeguarding systems, especially when skilled employees exit the stage. This episode promises to arm you with the knowledge to fortify your organization's cybersecurity posture effectively.We then navigate the contrasting landscapes of software development models, weighing the structured order of the Waterfall model against the adaptive flexibility of Agile and the risk-focused Spiral model. Each approach comes with its own set of challenges and benefits, particularly concerning security integration and usability. Through the lens of iterative feedback and prototype development, we highlight how these methodologies can help refine requirements and minimize ambiguities, ensuring that security and functionality walk hand in hand.Finally, explore how the IDEAL model can transform your organization's security practices. Designed to improve cybersecurity and risk management, this structured improvement approach offers clear phases: Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting, and Learning. We also discuss the impactful mission behind CISSP training, where proceeds support a nonprofit for adoptive children. This initiative not only enhances your cybersecurity skills but also contributes to a cause greater than yourself. Join us as we unpack these strategies, providing insights that could significantly shape your cybersecurity career.Gain access to 60 FREE CISSP Practice Questions each and every month for the next 6 months by going to FreeCISSPQuestions.com and sign-up to join the team for Free. That is 360 FREE questions to help you study and pass the CISSP Certification. Join Today!

As AI scales and layered agents become more integrated, businesses face questions about just how automated they can become and what this means for efficiency, cost, and innovation.   This week, Dave, Esmee and Rob talk to Nicole Onuta, AI business transformation expert about the growing impact of generative AI on the software development lifecycle (SDLC), diving into both the opportunities and challenges that arise, how AI scales in an organisation and how hyper-automation is fast becoming a practical reality. TLDR 04:40 Confused about whether frictionless CX can be too frictionless 07:54 Cloud conversation with Nicole Onuta 34:57 The Eliza bot in 1966 43:08 AI execution! Guest Nicole Onuta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleonuta/Resources Turbocharging Software with Gen AI: https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/gen-ai-in-software/ Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Esmee van de Giessen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/Production Marcel van der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/ Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sound Ben Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/ Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini

Do you know that voting for Automation Guild 2025 session is now open. Want to know how to elevate your performance and functional automation checks at each stage of your SDLC? What's new in the latest version of Playwright? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Oct 13th.  So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. time topic link 1:07 Performance SDLC Webinar https://testguild.me/perfwebinar 0:30 AutomationGuild Vote https://testguild.com/vote 2:28 Playwright 1.48 https://testguild.me/zv5kol 3:30 Smartbear Load Testing https://testguild.me/afqjtq 4:12 Web Authentication with Playwright  https://testguild.me/cygfhc 5:02 TestRail AI Report https://testguild.me/fqzxmr 6:18 Quality DevOps Playbook https://testguild.me/devopsbook 7:04 Dynatrace System Availability AI https://testguild.me/rjreh2 8:13 SecureLayer7 https://testguild.me/ia6hah 0:00 Subscribe to the news show now https://testguild.me/newsub

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How CI/CD Tools can expose your Code to Security Risks? In this episode, we're joined by Mike Ruth, Senior Staff Security Engineer at Rippling and returning guest, live from BlackHat 2024. Mike dives deep into his research on CI/CD pipeline security, focusing on popular tools like GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Buildkite. He reveals the hidden vulnerabilities within these tools, such as the ability for engineers to bypass code reviews, modify configuration files, and run unauthorized commands in production environments. Mike explains how the lack of granular access control in repositories and CI/CD configurations opens the door to serious security risks. He shares actionable insights on how to mitigate these issues by using best practices like GitHub Environments and Buildkite Clusters, along with potential solutions like static code analysis and granular push rule sets. This episode provides critical advice on how to better secure your CI/CD pipelines and protect your organization from insider threats and external attacks. Guest Socials:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mike's Linkedin Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Podcast- Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security BootCamp Questions asked: (00:00) Introductions (01:56) A word from episode sponsor - ThreatLocker (02:31) A bit about Mike Ruth (03:08) SDLC in 2024 (08:05) Mitigating Challenges in SDLC (09:10) What is Buildkite? (10:11) Challenges observed with Buildkite (12:30) How Terraform works in the SDLC (15:41) Where to start with these CICD tools? (18:55) Threat Detection in CICD Pipelines (21:31) Building defensive libraries (23:58) Scaling solutions across multiple repositories (25:46) The Fun Questions Resources mentioned during the call: GitHub Actions Terraform Buildkite Mike's BSidesSF Talk

En este episodio #LaÚltimaFrontera, #SantiSiri y #EmiGarzón reciben a #MatthiasBroner un experto en el mundo Web3, parte de Matter Labs y uno de los cerebros detrás de zkSync, un protocolo que busca escalar #Ethereum para poder llegar a mil millones de usuarios en casos de uso cotidiano. Matthias fue Jefe de Marketing en OpenZeppelin, también lideró la estrategia de marketing de crecimiento para la DFINITY Foundation, destacándose en el lanzamiento y la apertura de código de ICP, una capa 1 emergente de la comunidad ETH que alcanzó el cuarto puesto en capitalización bursátil total. También, hablan sobre la revolución, el desarrollo, y el ciclo de vida del desarrollo de software (SDLC); el poder de la IA generativa; modelos de lenguaje LLM; criptografía "Zero Knowledge"; blockchain; startups; VC y protocolos Web3; entre otros temas. ¿Podría aumentar el PBI mundial si se hace la mejora prevista del 30% de la productividad, gracias a las IA para desarrolladores? ¿La experiencia humana sigue siendo crucial para definir experiencias de usuario atractivas? ¿Cuál es el poder y la promesa de la IA generativa en el SDLC?

We're already well into 2024 and it's sad that people still have enough fuel to complain about various aspects of their engineering life. DORA seems to be turning into one of those problem areas.Not at every organization, but some places are turning it into a case of “hitting metrics” without caring for the underlying capabilities and conversations.Nathen Harvey is no stranger to this problem.He used to talk a lot about SRE at Google as a developer advocate. Then, he became the lead advocate for DORA when Google acquired it in 2018. His focus has been on questions like:How do we help teams get better at delivering and operating software? You and I can agree that this is an important question to ask. I'd listen to what he has to say about DORA because he's got a wealth of experience behind him, having also run community engineering at Chef Software.Before we continue, let's explore What is DORA? in Nathen's (paraphrased) words:DORA is a software research program that's been running since 2015.This research program looks to figure out:How do teams get good at delivering, operating, building, and running software? The researchers were able to draw out the concept of the metrics based on correlating teams that have good technology practices with highly robust software delivery outcomes.They found that this positively impacted organizational outcomes like profitability, revenue, and customer satisfaction.Essentially, all those things that matter to the business.One of the challenges the researchers found over the last decade was working out: how do you measure something like software delivery? It's not the same as a factory system where you can go and count the widgets that we're delivering necessarily.The unfortunate problem is that the factory mindset I think still leaks in. I've personally noted some silly metrics over the years like lines of code.Imagine being asked constantly: “How many lines of code did you write this week?”You might not have to imagine. It might be a reality for you. DORA's researchers agreed that the factory mode of metrics cannot determine whether or not you are a productive engineer. They settled on and validated 4 key measures for software delivery performance.Nathen elaborated that 2 of these measures look at throughput:[Those] two [that] look at throughput really ask two questions:* How long does it take for a change of any kind, whether it's a code change, configuration change, whatever, a change to go from the developer's workstation. right through to production?And then the second question on throughput is:* How frequently are you updating production?In plain English, these 2 metrics are:* Deployment Frequency. How often code is deployed to production? This metric reflects the team's ability to deliver new features or updates quickly.* Lead Time for Changes: Measures the time it takes from code being committed to being deployed to production. Nathen recounted his experience of working at organizations that differed in how often they update production from once every six months to multiple times a day. They're both very different types of organizations, so their perspective on throughput metrics will be wildly different. This has some implications for the speed of software delivery.Of course, everyone wants to move faster, but there's this other thing that comes in and that's stability.And so, the other two stability-oriented metrics look at:What happens when you do update production and... something's gone horribly wrong. “Yeah, we need to roll that back quickly or push a hot fix.” In plain English, they are:* Change Failure Rate: Measures the percentage of deployments that cause a failure in production (e.g., outages, bugs). * Failed Deployment Recovery Time: Measures how long it takes to recover from a failure in production. You might be thinking the same thing as me. These stability metrics might be a lot more interesting to reliability folks than the first 2 throughput metrics.But keep in mind, it's about balancing all 4 metrics. Nathen believes it's fair to say today that across many organizations, they look at these concepts of throughput and stability as tradeoffs of one another. We can either be fast or we can be stable. But the interesting thing that the DORA researchers have learned from their decade of collecting data is that throughput and stability aren't trade-offs of one another.They tend to move together. They've seen organizations of every shape and size, in every industry, doing well across all four of those metrics. They are the best performers. The interesting thing is that the size of your organization doesn't matter the industry that you're in.Whether you're working in a highly regulated or unregulated industry, it doesn't matter.The key insight that Nathen thinks we should be searching for is: how do you get there? To him, it's about shipping smaller changes. When you ship small changes, they're easier to move through your pipeline. They're easier to reason about. And when something goes wrong, they're easier to recover from and restore service.But along with those small changes, we need to think about those feedback cycles.Every line of code that we write is in reality a little bit of an experiment. We think it's going to do what we expect and it's going to help our users in some way, but we need to get feedback on that as quickly as possible.Underlying all of this, both small changes and getting fast feedback, is a real climate for learning. Nathen drew up a few thinking points from this:So what is the learning culture like within our organization? Is there a climate for learning? And are we using things like failures as opportunities to learn, so that we can ever be improving? I don't know if you're thinking the same as me already, but we're already learning that DORA is a lot more than just metrics. To Nathen (and me), the metrics should be one of the least interesting parts of DORA because it digs into useful capabilities, like small changes and fast feedback. That's what truly helps determine how well you're going to do against those performance metrics.Not saying “We are a low to medium performer. Now go and improve the metrics!”I think the issue is that a lot of organizations emphasize the metrics because it's something that can sit on an executive dashboard But the true reason we have metrics is to help drive conversations.Through those conversations, we drive improvement.That's important because currently an unfortunately noticeable amount of organizations are doing this according to Nathen:I've seen organizations [where it's like]: “Oh, we're going to do DORA. Here's my dashboard. Okay, we're done. We've done DORA. I can look at these metrics on a dashboard.” That doesn't change anything. We have to go the step further and put those metrics into action.We should be treating the metrics as a kind of compass on a map. You can use those metrics to help orient yourself and understand, “Where are we heading?”.But then you have to choose how are you going to make progress toward whatever your goal is.The capabilities enabled by the DORA framework should help answer questions like:* Where are our bottlenecks?* Where are our constraints?* Do we need to do some improvement work as a team?We also talked about the SPACE framework, which is a follow-on tool from DORA metrics. It is a framework for understanding developer productivity. It encourages teams or organizations to look at five dimensions when trying to measure something from a productivity perspective.It stands for:* S — satisfaction and well-being* P — performance* A — activity* C — communication and collaboration* E — efficiency and flowWhat the SPACE framework recommends is that youFirst, pick metrics from two to three of those five categories. (You don't need a metric from every one of those five but find something that works well for your team.)Then write down those metrics and start measuring them. Here's the interesting thing: DORA is an implementation of SPACE. You can correlate each metric with the SPACE acronym!* Lead time for changes is a measure of Efficiency and flow* Deployment frequency is an Activity* Change fail rate is about Performance.* Failed deployment recovery time is about Efficiency and flowKeep in mind that SPACE itself has no metrics. It is a framework for identifying metrics.Nathen reiterated that you can't use the space metrics because there is no such thing. I mentioned earlier how DORA is a means of identifying the capabilities that can improve the metrics.These can be technical practices like using continuous integration.But they can also be capabilities like collaboration and communication. As an example, you might look at what your change approval process looks like. You might look at how collaboration and communication have failed when you've had to send changes off to an external approval board like a CAB (change approval board).DORA's research backs the above up:What our research has shown through collecting data over the years, is that while they do exist on the whole, an external change approval body will slow you down.That's no surprise. So your change lead time is going to increase, your deployment frequency will decrease. But, at best, they have zero impact on your change fail rate. In most cases, they have a negative impact on your change fail rate. So you're failing more often.It goes back to the idea of smaller changes, faster feedback, and being able to validate that. Building in audit controls and so forth.This is something that reliability-focused engineers should be able to help with because one of the things Sebastian and I talk about a lot is embracing and managing risk effectively and not trying to mitigate it through stifling measures like CABs. In short, DORA and software reliability are not mutually exclusive concepts.They're certainly in the same universe.Nathen went as far as to say that some SRE practices necessarily get a little bit deeper than sort of the capability level that DORA has and provide even more sort of specific guidance on how to do things.He clarified a doubt I had because a lot of people have argued with me (mainly at conferences) that DORA is this thing that developers do, earlier in the SDLC.And then SRE is completely different because it focuses on the production side. The worst possible situation could be turning to developers and saying, “These 2 throughput metrics, they're yours. Make sure they go up no matter what,” and then turn to our SREs and say “Those stability metrics, they're yours. Make sure they stay good” All that does is put these false incentives in place and we're just fighting against each other.We talked a little more about the future of DORA in our podcast episode (player/link right at the top of this post) if you want to hear about that.Here are some useful links from Nathen for further research:DORA online community of practiceDORA homepage[Article] The SPACE of Developer ProductivityNathen Harvey's Linktree This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.srepath.com

In the ever-evolving world of software development, the journey from novice coder to seasoned developer is marked by significant shifts in both skill sets and professional value. Our recent podcast episode delves into this transformation, offering insights into how developers can reassess their worth, adjust their rates, and adapt to new roles as they progress in their careers. Skill Sets: The Foundation of a Developer's Career When developers start their careers, their primary selling point is often their proficiency in specific programming languages and technologies. Early on, resumes are packed with details about the languages they know and the years of experience they have in each. For many, this technical expertise is the core of their professional identity and the basis for how they assess their value in the job market. As a developer, it might be tempting to believe that your worth is directly tied to the number of years you've spent writing code in a particular language. However, the podcast emphasizes that this approach to self-valuation is only the beginning. While technical skills are essential, they represent just one aspect of a developer's overall value. As developers gain experience, other, often more valuable, skills begin to emerge. Expanding Skill Sets: Beyond Just Coding After about three to five years in the field, developers typically begin to notice a shift in the nature of their work. No longer is it just about writing code; it's about developing software solutions. This broader perspective encompasses tasks like database design, requirements gathering, project estimation, and testing. These activities are part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes stages such as design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. As developers gain more experience, their ability to perform these tasks improves. They become better at estimating project timelines, designing robust architectures, and understanding client needs. These skills are less about coding and more about problem-solving and project management, which can be more valuable to clients and employers. Leadership Skill Sets: The Key to Team Success One of the most significant shifts discussed in the podcast is the growing importance of soft skills and leadership abilities. As developers progress in their careers, they often find themselves in roles that require them to mentor junior developers, lead teams, or even manage projects. These responsibilities may not involve writing code at all, but they are crucial for the success of any software project. These skills, such as team management, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration, are highly valued by employers and clients alike. Developers who can navigate the complexities of team dynamics, work with offshore teams, and manage projects in politically charged environments bring a level of expertise that goes beyond mere technical know-how. Pricing Your Skill Sets: Navigating the Market The podcast also touches on the tricky subject of pricing one's services, especially for developers who work as consultants or freelancers. As developers' skill sets evolve, so too should their pricing strategies. Early in their careers, developers might charge a flat rate for coding work, but as they take on more complex roles—such as solution design, project management, or consulting—they must adjust their rates accordingly. Different tasks and roles warrant different rates. For instance, writing COBOL code might command a higher rate due to its niche demand, while simple HTML coding might not be worth the time for a seasoned developer. Developers need to be mindful of the market they are targeting and the value they bring to each project. Valuing Your Skill Sets: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Underpricing One of the podcast's key takeaways is the potential danger of underpricing. Developers who charge too little risk not only financial strain but also damage to their reputation. In the software industry, delivering high-quality work is paramount, and failing to do so because of budget constraints can lead to dissatisfied clients and lost opportunities. The podcast advises developers to be upfront with clients about budgets and to walk away from projects that don't offer fair compensation for the value provided. Building trust with clients is crucial, but it should not come at the expense of undercutting one's worth. Continuously Evolving Your Skill Sets The journey from coder to developer is one of continuous learning and adaptation. As developers gain experience, they must recognize the evolving nature of their skill sets and adjust their professional strategies accordingly. By understanding the full scope of their value—beyond just coding—they can better navigate their careers, command higher rates, and take on more fulfilling roles that leverage their growing expertise. Stay Connected: Join the Developreneur Community We invite you to join our community and share your coding journey with us. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, there's always room to learn and grow together. Contact us at info@develpreneur.com with your questions, feedback, or suggestions for future episodes. Together, let's continue exploring the exciting world of software development. Additional Resources Ramping Up Your Skills Through Broad Experience Leverage Your Unique Skills – Interview With Tyler Foley Build A Company You Would Work For Pricing Strategies – The Value Of Your Product Or Service The Developer Journey Videos – With Bonus Content

Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in Chemical Engineering. So - by trade, he was clearly a chemist. However, when he joined Accenture, he started in with programming and establishing the SDLC methodology for the company. Matt is married with 2 kids, loves sports - specifically Illinois basketball - loves to play music and golf. He likes to travel with his wife to see family, and make frequent visits to their lakehouse.In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved.This is the creation story of QuantHub.LinksWebsite: https://quanthub.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcowell/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Jean-Baptiste Guerin, Head of Product at N26, to discuss global financial applications, globalization strategy, and the challenges of delivering products to a global client base. Drawing from his experiences at both N26 and Block, Jean-Baptiste shares valuable insights on successful international expansion and the pitfalls to avoid.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Meg Watson, a product lead at DoorDash with previous experience in leadership roles at Spotify and Stitch Fix. They discuss the intricacies of building and managing successful product teams, decision-making processes, and the evolution of remote work in the tech industry.

"How do you drive trust in a digital first or software first world?" This is the question that Francis Ofungwu, Global Field CISO at GitLab, helps customers answer every day. Securing software development is unlike enterprise security, where CISOs have strong visibility into the environment and can exercise direct control. To secure software, leaders must convince those outside of their department to buy-in on their strategy and implement needed changes. Learn Francis' secrets for winning support and securing the SDLC in this episode of The CISO's Gambit.   

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Kam Star, Chief Product Officer of Chaos, to discuss why you should consider the red ocean environment of a product, how you can use your customer community to grow, and how to lean on creativity.

Howdy, y'all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest toda is Tomer Schwartz, co-founder and CTO over at Dazz  Yup!  He's a vendor!  And OMG he's a sponsoring vendor too! Whatever will we do?  But wait, y'all know Allan's rule:  Vendors are allowed on the show if and when they can add more value on a given subject vs. any practitioners in The Cyber Ranch network.  Tomer fits that bill perfectly!  Tomer has worked in the Microsoft Security Response Center, he's the former Armis co-founder & CTO, current co-founder & CTO at Dazz, who is a leader in the Application Security Posture Management space.  Tomer is also a coffee aficionado.  Now what does Dazz do and why did we ask Tomer to be on the show?  Dazz is in the Application Security Posture Management space, which is relatively new around here, but they also collate and track threat exposure realtime, and also secure the SDLC in a DevOps'y way...   Questions   The elephant in the room is Gartner's newest category in this space. Some say ASPM fits into: CTEM, which is Continuous Threat Exposure Management for those behind on eating their alphabet soup.  Tomer, what's your perspective on that? Let's talk about the problem in the ASPM/CTEM space: noise / too much data, no context, limited visibility from code to cloud and everything in between. For real, most solutions suck, as their single pane of glass is a very, very dirty pane of glass, and no amount of Windex is going to help.  And our listeners know we believe in 3-4 “single” panes anyway.   Is there such a thing as a single pane of glass in the ASPM space?  Do we want a single pane?  How does it play nicely with my “single” panes from other spaces? Here comes the can of worms: Can AI help with this? Gartner says by 2026 40% of enterprises will have an ASPM solution - do you agree? And then there's good ol' UVM - Unified Vulnerability Management. Feels like a past promise that didn't deliver.  And it hasn't addressed DevOps or even Dev very well at all IMHO.  What's your take? How should CISOs be thinking about all of these technologies and practices? It can get very complicated very fast and if it's not done right the devs will run screaming. Where is this all headed? What's the ideal future state in this space? Here's your chance to tell thousands of CISOs and other high-level practitioners what you want them to know. What do you want them to know?

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Sanah Ansari, Director of Product at Capital One. Together they discuss the challenges and benefits of modernisation in a large company, emphasising the importance of strategic vision, stakeholder management, and adapting to changing consumer expectations.

On this episode of DevOps Dialogues: Insights & Innovations, host Paul Nashawaty is joined by Jack Poller of Paradigm Technica and Mitch Ashley, analyst and founder of Techstrong Research and Chief Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, for a discussion on the SDLC and the impacts of security as it is integrated into the pipeline. Their discussion covers: How security is not just security Security as a bolt-on afterthought Impacts to DevSecOps as it relates to the software release cycles  

Engineering leaders have long used value stream management and CI/CD tools to improve software delivery practices. However, an increasing demand for cost and efficiency is leading to the adoption of new technologies. Enterprises are quickly adopting tools that combine deeper levels of visibility into the SDLC with net-new workflow automations, leading to a better developer experience and increased output. This week's labs episode takes an in-depth look at Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) Platforms and how engineering teams are using this new technology to gain a competitive advantage. LinearB's COO and Co-founder Dan Lines along with co-host Conor Bronsdon cover the evolution of SEI, its core capabilities, and how these tools are being used to drive predictability, resource investment strategy and an improved developer experience. Join our journey into the data insights and workflow automations that are driving the next wave of continuous improvement. Gartner estimates that the adoption of SEI platforms will increase to 50% of engineering teams by 2027 – whether you're a VP, manager, or developer, find out why adopting an SEI Platform is crucial to your future success.Episode Highlights:2:39 Digging into the data to find optimizations 4:02 What is Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI)? 9:08 What is profitable engineering and why should it be top of mind? 14:56 How can SEI help a VPE or CTO? 20:43 How does SEI relate to value stream management? 25:05 The role of automation in continuous improvement 29:36 How do SEI platforms help improve GenAI code orchestration? 31:45 What makes a great SEI platform? 34:19 What's next for SEI?Show Notes:Moneyball (2011) directed by Bennett Miller • Reviews, film + cast • LetterboxdDownload your complimentary Gartner® Market Guide: Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) PlatformsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Ken and Mike discuss the importance of postmortems in incident response and security incidents. They explore the definition of postmortems, the value of reflection, the challenges of blame, and the significance of actionable outcomes. They also touch on the transparency of postmortems and the need for root cause analysis. The conversation concludes with a brief announcement about an upcoming conference series.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Shahzad Shaikh, Head of Product Management, Growth, Mobile, and Customer Engagement at Asana. Together they discuss the importance of growth strategies in product management, the need to balance growth with product quality, and the role of growth teams.

Dutch military intelligence warns of the Chinese Coathanger RAT. Pure Storage joins the growing list of Snowflake victims. JetBrains patches a GitHub IDE vulnerability. A data broker hits the brakes on selling driver location data. Flaws in VLC Media player allow remote code execution. Patch Tuesday updates. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey, taking on Domain 8, Software Development Security. Farewell, computer engineering legend Lynn Conway.  Our 2024 N2K CyberWire Audience Survey is underway, make your voice heard and get in the running for a $100 Amazon gift card. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. Learning Layer On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K's comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe take on Domain 8, Software Development Security, and tackle the following question: At which step of the SDLC should security considerations be first integrated? Functional requirements defining Project initiation and planning Testing and evaluation control System design specification Selected Reading Dutch intelligence says Chinese hacking campaign ‘more extensive' than previously known (The Record) Pure Storage confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack (Bleeping Computer) Users of JetBrains IDEs at risk of GitHub access token compromise (CVE-2024-37051) (Help Net Security) GitHub phishing campaign wipes repos, extorts victims (SC Magazine) Data broker shuts down product related to driver behavior patterns (The Record) VLC Media Player Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution (Cyber Security News) Microsoft June 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 51 flaws, 18 RCEs (Bleeping Computer) ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by Siemens, Schneider Electric, Aveva, CISA (SecurityWeek) Column: Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (LA Times) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Manlio Lo Conte, freelance Advisor, Investor, and Coach, and previous Chief Product Officer at Zwift, to discuss the future of voice software, how AI and voice software co-exist, and offer an internal look at the software and hardware teams of Amazon, Meta, and Zwift.

Episode 120 of Underserved is here! Our guest today is Christine Bird, a fellow UMass alum and veteran of the financial services industry. Christine started her career teaching some of the toughest students and learned to love it. Her foray into technology and QA taught her bug diplomacy, the SDLC, and how to make the skills vs. attitude decision. We discuss front-loading your tech learning, the AHA moment as a QA manager, and her love of being a city dweller.   LINKS Glad.org Sdlc-caat.com Jobcorps.gov https://www.linkedin.com/in/birdchristine/  

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Diego dos Santos, Director of ‘pay-by-bank' Product Management at Mastercard. Together, they discuss product growth strategies for international software products.