Techstrong Research Review

Mike and Mitch discuss the implosion of FTX as a means to reinforce the importance of trust. They discuss where trust fits into the DevOps process (code signing) and also how zero trust is really about ensuring trust more frequently.

Mike and Mitch discuss the recent Dropbox breach and what Mitch saw at the recent KubeCon show. They hit on some trends for the upcoming Predict 2023 conference, and also announced that the Research team will be at AWS re:Invent in late November.

Mike and Mitch do a KubeCon preview this week talking about the maturity of the open source movement and what to look for at the conference. The research team also plugs Predict 23 and discusses a recent post that Mitch wrote about the transformation of observability. 

Mitch, Mike and Mike’s bionic knee talk about consolidation in the security and identity space. Smart private equity investors, like Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity, are doing big deals and taking security brands off the public market. What does this mean for customers and the industry? The TS Research team also highlights a recent post that Mitch wrote explaining micro-services and how it’s an evolu...

Mike and Mitch unpack the push for most vendors to try to position their offerings as a “platform” and the reality that customers need to determine what is a tool and what is a platform, and must also be wary of vendor lock-in. We use examples from security, DevOps and some historical references to give context to how platforms play in a technology strategy.

Mike and Mitch tackle cloud-native security and API management security in this week’s Techstrong Research Review. They highlight a Sysdig survey as a means to make the point about the importance of continuous monitoring of both the container and the API environments.

In this inaugural Techstrong Research Review, Mike Rothman and Mitch Ashley highlight the march to Continuous Everything, discussing the maturing of digital workflow platforms like ServiceNow (Tokyo release), applying SBOMs in the enterprise and the recent “Do This, Not That - AppSec/API Security Edition” and “3 Keys to Continuous API Security” talks that took place during the https://www.techstro...