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Topics include Supply Chain Security, Vulnerability Management, Neat Tricks, and Contributor insights.

Posts in 2024
  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 3 | The GitOps Configuration

    Thursday, August 08, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction Kubernetes CRDs Context and Namespace Switching Steps to setup KubeSwitch Enter GitOps | Enter Gimlet | Enter Fluxcd Gimlet Gimlet Application Repostories Gimlet Environments Gimlet Environment Config Gimlet Observability Fluxcd VS Code …

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  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 2 | The Preparation

    Thursday, April 11, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction IP Addresses and DHCP DNS Local.gd NextDNS Take note NFS Prep Enable NFS on the Synology Configure Shared Folder OS Prep Pis | Ubuntu Server 22.04.4 LTS Kubectl | Your machine Helm | Your machine MicroK8s Prep Microk8s Installation …

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  • How Ortelius Models Threats with ML Workflows - A Roadmap

    Tuesday, April 09, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Why are Threat Models Needed? What’s the Problem? Developers around the globe are consuming open-source packages all day long. One “npm install” and BOOM the new intern can now single-handedly code your carefully architected payment flow service. …

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  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 1 | The Hardware

    Friday, April 05, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction My Home Setup NFS Storage Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility for the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x64 OS installation Preparing the OS for installation USB 3 flash drives Example from configuring my Pi to use USB flash sticks Using the Raspberry Pi …

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  • What Metadata is Required for AI DevSecOps?

    Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Creating the Next Generation AI DevSecOps Pipeline As IT teams strive to bolster software supply chains against hidden vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party components, the demand for smart, streamlined, and automated DevSecOps pipelines is …

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  • What is Threat Modeling?

    Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What is Threat Modeling? - Basic Concepts to Get You Started In a data-driven world digital security and awareness are vital for people, academy, industry, and government. A cyberattack can take away more than your breath. It can take away your …

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  • Peeling the SecOps Onion

    Tuesday, March 26, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Exposing Vulnerabilities by Peeling the SecOps Onion How do you peel an onion? Normally, you would peel an onion layer by layer and that’s precisely what Ortelius can do for you minus the crying bit. The security landscape is treacherous. We …

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  • 2024 Ortelius Non-functional Requirements

    Thursday, February 29, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What are Non-functional Requirements Non-functional requirements specify criteria that define the operation of a system rather than its specific behaviors. They describe attributes such as performance, security, scalability, reliability, and …

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  • What are non-functional requirements and why do they matter?

    Wednesday, February 28, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    In the modern DevSecOps world, we are often building the system (plane) as it is flying; at least that is the saying. The point of this adage is that we often build as we go and without any documentation, including making sure that we’ve thought …

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Posts in 2023
  • Exposing and Controlling Open-Source Within Your Supply Chain

    Wednesday, November 08, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction Open-source software has witnessed a remarkable evolution over the past few decades. The concept of freely sharing code and collaborating on software development has given rise to a vast ecosystem of open-source projects and …

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