The SoftwarePlaza IT Podcast

Join us for an insightful conversation with Neil Levine, SVP Product at Anchore, as we dive into the evolving world of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). Discover how SBOMs are transitioning from mere compliance necessities to powerful tools for enhancing software supply chain security. Neil shares Anchore's latest product release, focusing on critical features like "Bring Your Own SBOM&...

Join Alex Olivier, Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, as he uncovers the massive growth of non-human identities (NHIs) in modern systems. From ephemeral AI agents to IoT devices. Discover why traditional identity management falls short and how Cerbos enables a true zero-trust architecture by authorizing every machine and workload identity in real-time. Alex also shares insights into Cerbos' flexi...

Hear from Bar-El Tayouri, Head of Mend AI, about the urgent need for a new approach to securing AI-driven applications. From understanding novel AI components and their risks to implementing a comprehensive AppSec program, this episode provides actionable insights for organizations building with AI.

Kyle Campos, CTO of CloudBolt, joins us to talk about the failure of the 'report factory' model in FinOps. Too many teams generate dashboards, but few actually remediate waste. CloudBolt is changing that with an orchestration-first approach that closes the loop from insight to action. Kyle also explains how the StormForge acquisition supercharges Kubernetes optimization with real-time auto...

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Alex Zenla, Co-founder & CTO of Edera, as she shares her unconventional journey from the Minecraft community and IoT to building a cutting-edge Kubernetes security solution. Learn about the "aha" moments that led to Edera's unique approach to container isolation, their focus on security and efficiency, and their plans for the future of...

Traditional security measures often fall short when it comes to the evolving world of agent-based and shadow AI. Discover the power of network-based observability in this insightful conversation with Trevor Welsh, VP Product at Witness AI. Learn how Witness AI provides unprecedented visibility into AI interactions, enabling enterprises to identify risks, enforce policies, and protect sensitive dat...

Learn about the current state of cloud security and the impact of artificial intelligence in this conversation with Jeff Leder, CTO of Dot Security. We explore common security challenges, the "shift left" philosophy, and the evolving threats and opportunities presented by AI in the cyber landscape.

We had a chat with Nils Karn, Co-Founder & CEO, Mitigant, and Thomas Fricke, Co-Founder & Advisor, Mitigant about the concept of cloud attack emulation. It involves simulating attacks like ransomware to test the resilience of a system, emphasizing that it's not a simulation but an actual attack executed in a controlled environment. Mitigant conducts these attack emulations  on pre-prod...

Scott Leatherman, CMO, Aviatrix, joins us to highlight the challenges of securing cloud-native environments, and the need for modern firewall solutions. Aviatrix's Kubernetes Firewall helps reduce IP exhaustion and provides east-west and egress security. A surprising offshoot of doing cloud and Kubernetes firewalls the right way is being able to modernize your applications. Tune in to hear a u...

Reza Ramezanpour, Developer Advocate at  Tigera  joins us to talk about v3.30 of Project Calico. This release focuses on enhanced observability and a staged network policy feature that allows for non-enforcing policy testing without impacting cluster performance. Calico 3.30 introduces integration with the Gateway API, enabling advanced ingress traffic control and micro-segmentation capabilities....

Today's podcast features OX Security, a company revolutionizing application security. OX Security covers the entire application lifecycle, from design to runtime, ensuring comprehensive protection. Their advanced verification system identifies and validates security threats with hard evidence, eliminating guesswork. Boaz Barzel, Field CTO, demonstrates how their dashboard dramatically reduces...

ActiveState has been working on managing open source dependencies and builds for over 20 years. They take an 'SBOM-first' approach, generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) first before building applications, providing visibility into dependencies. Active State's platform can discover open source components used across an organization, prioritize vulnerabilities, and provide intelligent reme...

Florian Forster, CEO & Co-Founder, Zitadel, joins us in this episode to discuss the challenges of authentication in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments, such as managing token expiration, revocation, and scalability. Forster highlights some common anti-patterns in authentication, like cramming too much data into access tokens and running expensive operations against the identity infrastru...

Vasil Kaftandzhiev and Pete Wall of Grafana Labs join us today to talk about all things Kubernetes observability. Grafana aims to make observability easy by providing tools to get started easily, blend Kubernetes best practices with Grafana Cloud features, and build custom dashboards for precise Kubernetes needs. Grafana offers integrations with various databases, services, and tools out-of-the-bo...

Rotem Tamir, CTO, Ariga, joins us today to talk about Atlas, a database-schema-as-code tool that takes a declarative approach to managing database schemas. It enables developers to define the desired state of the schema, and Atlas then handles the planning, verification, and deployment of changes. This way, changes to the schema are automatically planned, verified, and deployed through a GitHub ac...

The team at Styra created OPA & Rego. With OPA 1.0 around the corner they have released a new tool to troubleshoot policies written with Rego. Charlie Egan, Senior Developer Advocate at Styra, joins us to talk about all things OPA and demos Regal as well. If policy as code excites you, you won’t want to miss this one.

Edward Ionel talks about how Mirantis Lens unifies Dev & Ops around Kubernetes workflows. With unique features, a wide user base, and great flexibility, Lens is sure to ease your Kubernetes operations.

OpenLogic provides end-to-end support for OSS projects & LTS for discontinued ones. Every organization uses and depends on open source. However, with the ever changing open source landscape, tools get discontinued, don't work with each other, and can wreak havoc. OpenLogic has seen it all with open source, and can help get your OSS projects on the right track. Whether it's LTS for CentOS, Angu...