As platform engineering continues to rise in popularity, there is a new side effect to watch out for: the people using the internal developer platforms aren't the people who built it. They’re not necessarily familiar with the codebase, they may not know what's powering it behind the scenes – and the platform might even have to contend with malicious users. So how is Puppet evolving to contend with this new challenge?

At MetricFire, we treat your data as our data, and we secure our data. Security is prioritized at every level of our infrastructure so you can have peace of mind that your data is sent and stored safely. Keeping MetricFire secure is fundamental to the nature of our business. One of our key priorities is to secure our customers’ metrics and trust. We diligently ensure that we comply with industry security standards so that our customers can trust that their metrics are safeguarded.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns have enabled velocity, repeatability, and codification of best practices for our environments. However, using IaC has introduced new challenges, especially around security. Securing manually deployed infrastructure is already difficult. This problem rapidly multiplies when organizations adopt IaC patterns, since they must now contend with the complexity of code and the proliferation of environments enabled by this increased velocity.

It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion Organization, xMatters is proud to be actively participating. Since the National Cybersecurity Alliance started this initiative in 2004, the number of devices connected to the internet and the amount of time we spend interacting online has increased exponentially. The impact on our lives is so massive that it’s become hard to imagine what life would be like without our devices.