As rapidly as technologies change, so do the businesses that use them. In today’s world it is a necessity to operate with a remote team, whether partially or fully. But managing remote teams comes with a variety of new and unique challenges, like varying schedules and different time zones. …

In part 3 of this series on software security, we touched on some key security elements of your software’s environment. It’s important that your network is secure and that proper processes are in place to keep it that way. …

In part 2 of this series on software security, we explored how DevOps plays a key role in securing your software. While they take some time to set up, automated processes provide significant ROI. By pulling repeated processes out of the hands of your employees you can ensure consistent, secure…

Amazon Cognito enables you to quickly and easily add user sign-up, user sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps. At its core Amazon Cognito provides a complete solution for user authentication. Its main features are storing usernames and passwords, managing sessions, and providing forgotten password functionality. All…

Part one of this series on software security explored the role of the organization in establishing best practices around security. The bottom line: Employees can have the greatest impact on the prevention of exposure to vulnerabilities. Now we’ll go a layer deeper and look at DevOps. One leading issue with…

Early in the morning on November 25th, 2020 — the day before Thanksgiving — reports started circulating, claiming various issues with popular consumer applications and sites. It started off as intermittent availability problems. Before long, it escalated to full-blown unavailability. We turned to Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and management service…

The increase in cyber-attacks has led the subject of security to the forefront of software development topics. Formerly benign events like asking users for personal data requires a great deal of trust, which can be hard to regain if broken. You need to ensure you’re protecting that data and that’s…