Security Engineering

What they are, what they aren’t, and what you should do with them — It’s already been a year since the Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices have been published (see the original article here). The project has stirred up some dust, so now is a good time to give an update as well as clarify a few things that may have led to…

As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this week, we’re profiling female-identifying engineers across our business. Maria Sepulveda is a Senior Security Engineer at Skyscanner. An expert within information security, Maria led the recertification of Skyscanner’s PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry data Security Standard) compliance. Maria took an unconventional…

As the businesses realize that moving to cloud is the best decision since it provides scalability, flexibility and agility, more and more companies are keen to adopt cloud-based services. But there is reluctance due to the concerns such as privacy risks, data loss and identity theft. Implementation of less-secure solutions…

Lacework covers many cloud security use-cases and is one of the few vendors that allows you to easily export all of the underlying data for your analysis. This enables you to open up a slew of new use cases joining with your other operational data. Note: Lacework does expose their…

With backing from Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, Monad creates industry’s first security data cloud platform for DevOps and cloud engineering. — San Francisco, Aug. 26, 2021 — Monad, Inc., a security data cloud innovator, today emerged from stealth with $17 million in Series A investment. This round is led by Index Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital and headed by security veterans Christian Almenar and Jacolon Walker. …

Welcome to our series “Meet a Robinhoodie”! Each post, we ask a Robinhood employee about their path to Sherwood Forest and why they joined. Karthik Rangarajan is a Director of Engineering, Security for the Security & Privacy team based in Menlo Park, CA. Now, let’s get to know him! Why…

Introduction Flipkart, being primarily a tech behemoth, obviously has a massive software footprint. The systems that power this scale can be completely pictured as a living body, which goes through multiple phases of growth, development, diseases, recovery, and immunization. Just as the human body can be extremely fit and still become…

We’re fanatics about automation and Jenkins is already being used all over the place to automate mundane tasks, so why not extend this automation to our SIEM (Panther)? — By Niko Raisanen We have a scalability-focused outlook on security here at FloQast. We’re fanatics about automation and Jenkins is already being used all over the place to automate mundane tasks, so why not extend this automation to our SIEM (Panther)?