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Automation: Redundancy vs Resilience

Automation: Redundancy vs Resilience

Cloud outages aren’t a matter of if, but when. At JPSoftWorks, we don’t just trust provider SLAs: we design resilience into our systems with automation, smart routing, and chaos testing. Because being ready beats being surprised.

Cloud Security Theater: Why Azure "Best Practices" Don’t Actually Make You Secure (With guest blogger, Joshua Copeland)

Cloud Security Theater: Why Azure "Best Practices" Don’t Actually Make You Secure (With guest blogger, Joshua Copeland)

Alone a checklist is worthless. Joshua Copeland and Jean-Paul Lizotte Image generated by AI. They look good in a board report. They check the compliance box. But they don't reflect how adversaries actually move, exploit, and pivot in cloud environments. What we're left with is "

Where Not to Automate: Keeping Human Value at the Core of SecDevOps

Where Not to Automate: Keeping Human Value at the Core of SecDevOps

Customer Contact: People First and Always We talk a lot about automation in SecDevOps, and with good reason. Automation lets us move fast, reduce errors, and scale security into every part of the delivery pipeline. But we've also learned the hard way that not everything should be automated.

Saving 90% of cost with five lines of code.

Saving 90% of cost with five lines of code.

AI in SecDevOps: Why “Cost Hacks” Aren't the Whole Story I was just reading an article by towardsdatascience.com. And it occurred to me that most of us would be tempted to jump into this pretty blindly. Here's my take on it. “How We Reduced LLM

EAC or everything as code

EAC or everything as code

Everything as Code: The Backbone of a Reliable, Secure, and Consistent DevSecOps Practice At JPSoftWorks, you know, we've always believed that technology should serve people first: not the other way around. Over the years, working in SecDevOps, one truth has become increasingly clear to us: in order to

Why the “Dev(SEC)Ops Rockstar” Myth Persists

Why the “Dev(SEC)Ops Rockstar” Myth Persists

Why the “DevOps Rockstar” Myth Persists A Badging Bonanza for Ambitious Engineers * Instant credibility. One LinkedIn title change, and you’re the go-to guru for pipeline pain. * Tool-collector’s paradise. Kubernetes today, service mesh tomorrow—learning curves feel like career hacks. * Hero dopamine. Shipping hot-fixes at 2 a.m.

DevOps versus DevSecOps, an illustrated example.

DevOps versus DevSecOps, an illustrated example.

So what’s the big deal about DevSecOps? Why can’t you just explain it? I can, but first we need to talk about DevOps. Act I – DevOps, the culture. Not a person. Contrary to many job ads, DevOps isn’t a title. It’s a way of working that

LLMs ≈ Pocket Calculators for the Mind

LLMs ≈ Pocket Calculators for the Mind

Why the real question is how we use them, not if we should “I don’t carry information in my mind that is readily available in books… The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein

Is Agentic SecDevOps for you?

Is Agentic SecDevOps for you?

What is it? As usual. let's take a moment to look at the "bare essential constituant parts" of what Agentic DevOps is, and let's see how we align them to the SecDevOps mindset. Microsoft’s "Agentic DevOps", Key Concepts: * "Agentic DevOps&