I always look forward to attending the annual Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, Maryland. This event provides the latest insights from both Gartner and industry thought leaders, and is focused on many current challenges facing organizations today with key areas including agile architectures, business continuity management (BCM), cloud security, privacy and securing internet of things (IoT).”

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS! This release has a lot of new features, and we are very excited about all the new possibilities you get with CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS. If you are using the previous LTS, 3.10 you will also benefit from all the new features, improvements and testing of the 3.11 release, which you can read more about in the CFEngine 3.11 release post.

Early internet data communications were enabled through the use of a protocol called HyperText Transmission Protocol (HTTP) to transfer data between nodes on the internet. HTTP essentially establishes the “request-response” rules to be used between a “client” (i.e. web browser) and “server”(computer hosting a website) throughout the session.