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I think they buy these kinds of things for less philanthropic reasons and more for the same reason that the ultra wealthy invest in art: an asset that never loses and often increases in value. It’s a haven for their wealth. If you can “loan” it to professionals (e.g. a museum) who will take care of it for free, and the public can enjoy it too? It’s a solid PR move as well.
It's so bad we're going to the old gods for help now. :)
I love getting to play with these OSes that I never got to touch 20 years ago, so thanks for this! Now that you've got NeXTStep, have you considered Rhapsody?
Large organizations are exactly what I'm thinking about.
Software security is a good example. Lets say you work for a large company, you have 50K repos in your git instance, and you have 10K developers on staff churning out all of that software from the mundane to the mission critical. You want to provide a means for your developers to be good citizens to get out in front of security vulnerabilities.
Building an in house solution to do this is extremely costly in every way imaginable, from the extreme expertise needed, to the ability to do it at a very large scale.
There are a number of vendors out there who provide great software to do things like scan source code, scan dependencies, or scan a live environment for vulnerabilities. The best of those vendors have cloud-only solutions.
You're stuck either accepting the risk that, at the very least, vulnerabilities about your software would be potentially exposed for the world to see, or installing an inferior product on-premise. That potential risk is even greater if your customers depend on you to store things like private and/or financial data.
I've been through multiple vendor vetting processes at my company, and there has always been a line drawn at whether or not the company's data is stored with the vendor in the cloud. My company is very cloud averse due to the nature of the business, and the kind of data they store. The vendor products that make that cut are usually not the best, and if they have a cloud offering, it's almost always superior to their on-premise offering. Every time I go through this process, it shifts even further in the direction of more + better cloud offerings, and fewer on-premise offerings.
If the lesson the author is ultimately trying to convey is "You can't trust cloud infrastructure providers to protect your data, especially Microsoft." My answer is, "Okay. What can a company do when there is no choice?" The number of enterprise-grade applications that are cloud-only offerings is only increasing. Regardless of whether or not my company actually wants to to own the risk of storing its data in a third party, the day is coming where they have to choose to accept the risk that comes with storing data in the cloud, or re-inventing someone else's wheel at great development and operational cost.
I'm not versed in reading biomedical studies, but I'm curious about this. A successful in vitro test would not necessarily mean that the medicine could overcome other biological challenges such as the blood-brain barrier for delivering medication to brain tumors. Is my assumption correct?
An actual car (not an NFT) is in the design stages at a company run by DeLorean's daughter, who happens to also be an accomplished cyber security professional. https://dngmotors.com/
I’ve felt this too in my 40s. I generally don’t recommend books that might be considered self-help, but a recent book by Arthur Brooks called “From Strength to Strength” was really helpful for me to understand what’s happening to me, and how to embrace the use of crystallized intelligence in my later career. If that doesn’t interest you, you can find some interviews with him about the subject and book in a few places by search.
- "Sadly, the fire-proof safe wasn't lightning-strike safe and is now obliterated."
But... the lightning strike caused a fire. That shouldn't mean the fire is "extra hot" or something like that.
I'm disturbed, as I keep these kinds of thing in my fire safe for just such a reason.
Nearly all of the major security-focus static tools have CI integration, and guidance on best practices for integration.
Great work! I think it would be helpful to tag static analyzer tools that are dedicated to security with a security tag (SAST tools like, Brakeman, Fortify SCA, Checkmarx CxSAST, Coverity, etc.) OWASP lists a bunch here: https://owasp.org/www-community/Source_Code_Analysis_Tools