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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

The question was this: how do you define critical software, and what kinds of operations does critical software power and control? NIST definition: what is defined as critical software? First of all, NIST says it went into this process of defining critical software with two specific goals in mind: 1.

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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

The question was this: how do you define critical software, and what kinds of operations does critical software power and control? NIST definition: what is defined as critical software? First of all, NIST says it went into this process of defining critical software with two specific goals in mind: 1.

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Technology Short Take 121

Scott Lowe

Operating Systems/Applications. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. This blog post has a link to a white paper that could be useful. Kief Morris’ article on breaking up your Terraform project (day 5 of SysAdvent) is really good; well worth the read, in my opinion.

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Technology Short Take #62

Scott Lowe

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, Fournova Software—the company behind the OS X Git client Tower (which I use regularly)—has a developer survey here.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

So, in a nutshell, least privilege says that every object in a system – whether a user, a process, or an application – must be able to access only the information and resources that it needs, and no more. The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications.

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CloudVelocity Announces $13M Funding, New Tools for AWS.

Data Center Knowledge

CloudVelocity today released its One Hybrid Cloud software for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services. CloudVelocity says its software will make it easier to seamlessly move complex cloud deployments between data centers and multiple public clouds. CloudVelocity Debuts Its Cloud Cloning Software. White Papers.

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