Katie McCaskey

Katie is an experienced technology writer and entrepreneur. At Sonatype, she's focused on creating and finding great content.

Why Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Demands Precision

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Software Composition Analysis: Getting to the Signal Through the Noise, by 451 Research, demonstrates Sonatype's leadership in software composition analysis.
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PyPi 'Cheese Shop' Malware Illustrates Software Supply Chain Risk Vector

By Katie McCaskey on July 22, 2019 dependency injection

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Malicious actors circumvented the PyPI package repo manager, a classic case demonstrating why understanding open source code dependencies is critical.
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DevOps at the US Patent and Trademark Office

By Katie McCaskey on July 18, 2019 devsecops

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The US Patent and Trademark Office's Fee Processing Next Generation (FPNG) is an example of a government agency moving to a devops development environment.
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A World of Infinite Choice in Open Source Software

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The 2019 Software Supply Chain Report explains the development environment we're all living in and what we can learn from exemplar dev teams.
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Repository Management: An Easy Way to Minimize Risk

By Katie McCaskey on July 05, 2019 repository manager

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Mykel Alvis (@mykelalvis) of Array Consulting urges developers to use a caching, and preferably security-scanning, artifact repository. Here's why.
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New Cloud-Native CI/CD Projects OpenShift Pipelines and Tekton

By Katie McCaskey on July 01, 2019 devsecops

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Siamak Sadeghianfar of RedHat explains how the open source projects Tekton and OpenShift support cloud-native CI/CD projects.
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Achieving a Managed State Model For Your Software Supply Chain

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Secure software development processes share attributes with other human endeavors such as cooking, reading, and sports, says Santi Mulukutla of Sonatype.
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DevSecOps: Security at the Speed of DevOps

By Katie McCaskey on June 18, 2019 devsecops

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Larry Maccherone of Comcast shares his DevSecOps Manifesto and strategies he's used to foster the cultural change necessary to implement DevSecOps.
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DevOps Culture: The Neuroscience of Behavior

By Katie McCaskey on June 18, 2019 devsecops

3 minute read time

Helen Beal of Ranger4 takes a look at how the brain works, and what that means for cultural transformation. This is your brain on DevOps.
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