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Chef InSpec
Don’t Leave Your S3 Buckets Wide Open
By Mandi Walls
IT security can feel like an endless war against the unknown. Especially when your big old comfortable monolith with one access point gets spread out into a million small microservice pieces all over the place. Securing distributed systems is a challenge that requires constant vigilance and attention to detail.
Read moreReintro to Chef InSpec 4.0 and End of Life Announcement for v1.x and v2.x
With all of the excitement during ChefConf 2019, you may have missed that we released Chef InSpec 4.0 in May 2019. We put a focus on optimizing the core Chef InSpec product while making it more extensible and capable in handling the next generation of resources. The highlights of Chef InSpec version 4.
Read moreYour Time At ChefConf 2019: Chef InSpec and Security
By Mandi Walls
Chef InSpec is a powerful tool for creating and managing complex security profiles for your infrastructure. Whether you’re using Windows or Linux, Chef InSpec can help your team managing the demands of the modern security landscape.
Read moreWhat Does the New Chef Mean for the Community?
Chef would not exist without its community. Our Open Source community built the foundation upon which every part of Chef stands. Together we continue to evolve and grow and shape each other as Chef moves into its third chapter.
Read moreEnd of Support: A Catalyst to Application Lifecycle Modernization
As many of you know, the standard Microsoft lifecycle policy is 10 years of support (5 for mainstream + 5 for extended support) for business and developer products, such as SQL and Windows servers. At the end of the extended support period, patches or security updates are no longer provided, creating security and compliance issues.
Read moreHit the Cloud Running With Chef InSpec Profiles
Following on from the recent announcement that Chef has achieved CIS certification across AWS, Azure and GCP let’s take a deeper look at how to get started with Chef InSpec on these cloud providers. Starting with InSpec v3.7.7 there is profile generation support for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Read moreAchieving Federal Compliance with Chef Automate and Chef InSpec
Federal agencies work hard to provide value to consumers of their services, but in order to deliver updates at the velocity their customers demand, they must ensure their infrastructure is hardened and secure throughout the software development lifecycle.
Read moreReducing Audit Pain with Continuous Compliance
No one questions that audits are stressful, painful and time-consuming. But organizations — financial institutions especially — must conduct audits to ensure security and validate compliance regulatory requirements. As security threats increase or regulations change, entities in turn must conduct more audits.
Read moreSecuring Access in Cloud Environments with Saviynt and Chef
By Nick Rycar
The days where we wondered whether or not our organization would choose to migrate workloads to the cloud are long behind us. Today the question is not if we’ll move these workloads, but how many, and how quickly we can do so.
Read more2019: The “Third Chapter” of Chef Software
By Barry Crist
Dear Members of the Chef Community, Now that the buzz from closing out 2018 and Chef Rally (our annual all company kick-off) has died down, I wanted to share a quick update on Chef, along with a glimpse into the amazing opportunity that lies ahead for the company and our community. First of all, 2018.
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