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Introducing cf-remote: Tooling to deploy CFEngine

About a year ago, I wrote a small python script to automate installing and bootstrapping CFEngine on virtual machines in AWS. It had some hard coded IP addresses that I needed to update when I spawned new hosts, but other than that, it worked well. During manual testing, it saved me a lot of time instead of having to do things manually.

We're an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SIEM-thanks to you!

We’re happy to announce that ManageEngine is an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). While Gartner analysts recognized ManageEngine in its Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management * for three consecutive years, this Customers’ Choice distinction makes us even more proud because we see it as proof that our customers are happy with the technology we provide.

Mattermost security update 5.9.1/5.8.2/4.10.9 (ESR) released

We are releasing a recommended security update via Mattermost Team Edition 5.9.1, 5.8.2 and 4.10.9 (ESR) and Mattermost Enterprise Edition 5.9.1, 5.8.2 and 4.10.9 (ESR). This security update addresses a high-level vulnerability discovered during a security research review by Leandro Chaves.

Why DevSecOps Is Good Business

Back in 2002 when I was a (very) junior programmer at a German enterprise software company I was lucky enough to be part of a small team that was building what you would now call a SaaS app. Up until now, the company had made all their profits by selling desktop software written in a language most people likely have never heard of: FoxPro. But instead of spending my days debugging FoxPro code, I was now green fielding JAVA web services.