April 2021 – Carlos Castro

For many systems, high availability is crucial to survive, honor the SLA’s with (internal or external) customers. To achieve a high SLA with three, four or even five nines a redundant infrastructure is needed, there is no other way to achieve that if you don’t have your architecture redundant. Five-nines Continue Reading

Five Technology Shifts In: Why the Hype Curve Lies in Both Directions June 16, 2026

I’ve lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through the 2010s, and now AI. You learn things by surviving that many. You learn that vendors oversell. That leadership wants results yesterday. That the breathless predictions […]

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Checkmarx Adds Hybrid SAST Engine to Improve AppSec in AI Era June 16, 2026

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Tenet’s ‘Agentjacking’ Attack Turns Sentry Errors Into Code Execution June 15, 2026

AI coding agents can create a new code execution risk when they treat externally influenced error data as trusted guidance and have access to command line tools, according to new research from Tenet Security. The security company demonstrated an indirect prompt injection technique it calls “Agentjacking” in a recent report. In its proof of concept, […]