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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

” The 30-person company has worked to create decentralized identifiers for open-source projects and efforts such as International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass. Evernym describes itself as a leader in “self-sovereign identity.” Earlier this year, identity tech startup Auth0 sold to Okta for $6.5

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The Cybersecurity Sprint: Are we safe yet?

Cloud Musings

Agencies were instructed to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities, review and tightly limit the number of privileged users with access to authorized systems and dramatically accelerate the use of strong authentication, especially for privileged users.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.24

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Is Cloud Interoperability a Myth?

Cloud Musings

Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

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Technology Short Take 116

Scott Lowe

509v3 digital certificates, how they help enable asymmetric (public/private key) encryption, and the connection to Transport Layer Security (TLS). As would be expected with any maturing open source project that is starting to see increased adoption, Kubernetes has seen its share of security vulnerabilities over the last couple of months.

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Learning NVP, Part 4: Adding Hypervisors to NVP

Scott Lowe

This build of OVS is identical to the open source build in every way except that it includes the ability to create STT tunnels and includes some extra NVP-specific utilities for integrating OVS into NVP. Create a Transport Zone. In the Network Components Query Results, you’ll probably see no transport zones listed.

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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds. Kubernetes nodes rely on underlying virtual servers for both the master control plane and for worker nodes. Implement RBAC.