Scoped Filtering: A Practical Bridge to RBAC

You’re a startup fresh out of your development-focused cycle, starting to gain traction and demo your product to potential clients. As someone working at a freshly minted Series A company, I understand the priority: get the product working. In our case, that meant demonstrating our data insights solution worked — before implementing sophisticated (but necessary)

5 Manual Testing Techniques Every Tester Should Know

Despite rapid advancements in test automation and the use of AI in software testing, manual testing is still a fundamental part of software Quality Assurance in 2025. Recent data from multiple industry reports confirm the ongoing value of manual testing in comparison to test automation. For example, only about 5% of companies perform fully automated

Federated Learning: Training Models Without Sharing Raw Data

As machine learning programs require ever-larger sets of data to train and improve, traditional central training routines creak under the burden of privacy requirements, inefficiencies in operations, and growing consumer skepticism. Liability information, such as medical records or payment history, can’t easily be collected together in a place due to ethical and legal restrictions. Federated

Networking’s Open Source Era Is Just Getting Started

For most of its history, networking has been a standards-first, protocol-governed domain. From the OSI model to the TCP/IP stack, progress was measured in working groups and RFCs, not GitHub commits. But that is changing fast. Projects like eBPF and Cilium, along with the architectural demands of Kubernetes, are moving networking from a specification-bound world

Basic Security Setup for Startups

Preamble I recently had a conversation with my friend about starting a new company. We discussed the various stages a company should go through to become mature and secure enough to operate in the modern market. This article will outline those stages. The suggested approach is based on the following principles: Security by default Security

Digital Experience Monitoring and Endpoint Posture Checks Usage in SASE

In this article, I will go through the concepts of digital experience monitoring (DEM) and Endpoint Posture Checks and discuss how these essential capabilities are integrated into the SASE framework to enforce the zero trust principle. Together, these capabilities empower enterprises’ security and IT teams to maintain optimal performance, a strong security posture, and trust,

How to Build Secure Knowledge Base Integrations for AI Agents

Done well, knowledge base integrations enable AI agents to deliver specific, context-rich answers without forcing employees to dig through endless folders. Done poorly, they introduce security gaps and permissioning mistakes that erode trust. The challenge for software developers building these integrations is that no two knowledge bases handle permissions the same way. One might gate

Your SDLC Has an Evil Twin — and AI Built It

You think you know your SDLC like the back of your carpal-tunnel-riddled hand: You’ve got your gates, your reviews, your carefully orchestrated dance of code commits and deployment pipelines.  But here’s a plot twist straight out of your auntie’s favorite daytime soap: there’s an evil twin lurking in your organization (cue the dramatic organ music).