Ilkka Turunen

Ilkka serves as Field CTO at Sonatype. He is a software engineer with a knack for rapid web-development and cloud computing and with technical experience on multiple levels of the XaaS cake. Ilkka is interested in anything and everything, always striving to learn any relevant skills that help towards building Sonatype for success.

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Code fireworks - Sonatype Celebrates World Open Source Day February 3, 2022
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Sonatype celebrates February 3, 2022 as World Open Source Day

By Ilkka Turunen on February 03, 2022 Everything Open Source

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We declare February 3rd World Open Source day. Why? Our roots lie firmly in Open Source and we want to celebrate maintainers across the world & give back
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Meet an open source contributor: Sal Kimmich

By Ilkka Turunen on February 03, 2022 Everything Open Source

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Meet Sal Kimmich one of the incredible open source contributors at Sonatype. Learn more about why and how they got into open source.
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Log4shell by the numbers- Why did CVE-2021-44228 set the internet on fire?

By Ilkka Turunen on December 14, 2021 vulnerabilities

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What the download numbers tell us about the impact of the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
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What is the Log4j exploit?

By Ilkka Turunen on December 10, 2021 vulnerabilities

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A serious 0-day Remote Code Execution exploit in log4j, the most popular java logging framework, was discovered today.
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The Central Repository stands to support sailors from Bintray - three steps to take now to protect your builds from failing

By Ilkka Turunen on February 08, 2021 The Central Repository

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We've created a practical guide for Bintray users migrating to the Central Repository to follow and ensure that use and distribution of open source components.
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What publishers need to know about migrating from JCenter / Bintray to the Central Repository

By Ilkka Turunen on February 08, 2021 The Central Repository

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A step-by-step guide publishers can follow to easily migrate from Bintray/JCenter to The Central Repository
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GDPR Gets Teeth: British Airways and Marriott Fined

By Ilkka Turunen on July 09, 2019 devsecops

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Fines levied at British Airways and Marriott International under GDPR show why data protection must be a central part of the software supply chain.
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US Energy and Commerce Committee: 6 Strategies for Modern Cybersecurity Risks

By Ilkka Turunen on December 18, 2018 software bill of materials

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On the 12th of December the Subcommittee on oversight and investigations released an additional report identifying the core strategies organisations can take.
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3 steps to deal with the aftermath of the highjacked eslint-scope package

By Ilkka Turunen on July 13, 2018 npm

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Yesterday at noon BST a new github issue was opened in the popular eslint repository on github.
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