Richi Jennings

Richi Jennings
Independent industry analyst, editor, and content strategist. Richi Jennings is a former developer and marketer. He’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, DevOps.com, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.

Recent Posts from Richi Jennings

September 28, 2022

DevOps teams: BGP security is BAD. But you can fix it

Border Gateway Protocol’s security is laughable — but there are things you can do to mitigate the risks.
September 22, 2022

Rust finds its mojo: Move forward to memory-safe code

It’s confirmed: The Linux kernel will have Rust support soon. Linus Torvalds and Mark Russinovich say the time is now if you want to memory-safe code.
September 15, 2022

Why Twitter security sucks: Half of staff has PII access

Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko (pictured), has some damning things to say about the service’s DevOps security — or lack of it.
September 8, 2022

U.S., OpenSSF school dev teams on supply chain security

The U.S. government is sending developers back to school with a new document. But, oh my, what a lot of words.
August 31, 2022

LastPass hacked (again): What devs can learn

In the most recent LastPass hack, bad actors stole source code and other secrets from its dev environment. Learn from it.
August 25, 2022

Hyundai devs used sample code signing keys, making updates vulnerable

Developers of the entertainment unit in the Hyundai Ioniq reused a code-signing key pair from an example, rather than generating their own.