Stop Leaking Secrets: The Hidden Danger in Test Automation and How Vault Can Fix It

Modern automation frameworks have come a long way—Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Cucumber, and Selenium enable teams to run sophisticated end-to-end validations across browsers and services. But under all that progress lies a risk that’s still alarmingly common: secrets hardcoded into test code or environment files. These aren’t just theoretical risks. In one large enterprise, a regression

Technical Deep Dive: Scaling GenAI-Enhanced SBOM Analysis from Trivy Fix to Enterprise DevSecOps

This article demonstrates how a critical Trivy SBOM generation fix (PR #9224) can be scaled into an enterprise GenAI-powered platform, delivering comprehensive DevSecOps automation and millions in cost savings. We will explore the technical implementation from core dependency resolution improvements to enterprise-scale AI-driven vulnerability intelligence. The Foundation: Cross-Result Dependency Resolution in Trivy Problem Statement: Incomplete

Prototype for a Java Database Application With REST and Security

Many times, while developing at work, I needed a template for a simple application from which to start adding specific code for the project at hand. In this article, I will create a simple Java application that connects to a database, exposes a few rest endpoints and secures those endpoints with role based access.

How to Use ALB as a Firewall in IBM Cloud

Do you have a use case where you want to implement a network firewall in IBM Cloud VPC that filters traffic based on hostname? For example, you may want to allow connections only to www.microsoft.com and www.apple.com, while blocking access to all other destinations. Currently, IBM Cloud does not provide a managed firewall service. However,