Cluster API

kube.academy – The Cluster API is a Kubernetes project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management. This tooling can be leveraged to manage your Kubernetes estate …
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CKS Exam Series #10 Container Hardening

itnext.io – It’s a simple container which tries to make a curl call to an imaginary api, also passing a secret token. Every RUN line creates a new image layer. If update and install are in different lines it…
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Lincoln Laboratory earns a 2020 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is among the winners of the 2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing. The Business Intelligence Group presented 38 companies, services, and executives with these awards that recognize leaders in cloud-based technology. The laboratory won for developing TRACER (Timely Randomization Applied to Commodity Executables at Runtime), software that prevents cyber attackers from remotely attacking Windows applications.

Since 2012, the Business Intelligence Group has acknowledged industry leaders with several awards for innovation in technology and services. With the move of so many business and institutional functions to the cloud, the Stratus Awards were initiated to recognize companies and individuals that have enabled effective, secure cloud-based computing.

Maria Jimenez, chief nominations officer of the Business Intelligence Group, says, “We now rely on the cloud for everything from entertainment to productivity, so we are proud to recognize all of our winners. Each and every one is helping in their own way to make our lives richer every day. We are honored and proud to reward these leaders in business.”

TRACER addresses a problem inherent in the immensely popular Windows’ commodity applications: all installations of these applications look alike, so cyber intruders gain the ability to compromise millions of computers simply by “cracking” into one computer. In addition, because more than 90 percent of desktop computers run Microsoft Windows with closed-source applications, many cyber protections that rely on having the source code available are not applicable for these desktop systems.

The patented TRACER technology re-randomizes sensitive internal data and layout at every output from the application. This continuous re-randomization thwarts attempts to use data leaks to hijack the computer’s internals; any information leaked by the application will be stale when attackers attempt to exploit it.

TRACER’s research and development was led by Hamed Okhravi of Lincoln Laboratory’s Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group and included contributions by Jason Martin, David Bigelow, David Perry, Kristin Dahl, Robert Rudd, Thomas Hobson, and William Streilein.

“One of our primary goals for TRACER was to make it as easy to use as possible. The current version requires minimal steps to set up and requires no user interaction during its operation, which we hope facilitates its widespread adoption,” Okhravi said.

The software has been made available via a commercial company. For its innovation and potential to revolutionize the cybersecurity field, TRACER was named a 2020 R&D 100 Award winner by R&D World. TRACER was also honored with MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s 2019 Best Invention Award.
Quelle: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard Business Analytic Services: Banking transformation originates from a strong core

The new normal in banking increasingly includes digital self-service, as customer expectations and demands have increased with the “consumerization” of banking on multiple devices. 

Highly available digital products and services are dependent upon flexible distribution channels used to meet the banking needs of customers. Indeed, it requires more than an interactive interface. 
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Delivering more flexible and tailored cloud-native management with the latest version of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.2, which delivers even greater integration and customization to how enterprises manage cloud-native workloads and environments. This latest release simplifies and streamlines operations and captures additional performance metrics to ensure optimization of Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
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Operators over easy: an introduction to Kubernetes Operators

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Kubernetes Operators, but if you don’t work directly with Red Hat OpenShift or another Kubernetes distribution you may not know precisely what an Operator is. In this post, we’ll explain what Operators are and why they’re important.

To better understand the “what” and the “how” about Kubernetes Operators, we need to understand the problem(s) that motivated the need for Kubernetes Operators.
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Friday Five — March 5, 2021

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.

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Announcing special guests for Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience 2021

From throwing out the first pitch during a Boston Red Sox game at the iconic Fenway Park and Grammy Award-winning band Weezer rocking the night away at the San Francisco Armory to Neon Trees and Fitz & the Tantrums giving attendees a night to remember at the Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion, Red Hat Summit has shown we can bring the excitement and the entertainment to the agenda. In the age of social-distancing however, we can’t bring everyone together for a concert, but we can still show you a good time.
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