New Tech vs Old Tech: From Copy Protection to Ransom Notes There was a time when “security” meant something wonderfully simple. You wrote an application, burned it to a CD (or three), and your biggest fear was that someone might copy it without paying you. Maybe...
For more than six decades, COBOL has quietly powered the world’s most critical systems. In Part 1 of this article, we examined the criticality of COBOL applications still running in organisations today, the key drivers for modernisation and the associated risks. In...
For more than six decades, COBOL has quietly powered the world’s most critical systems. While often labelled as a “legacy” language, COBOL remains deeply embedded in the global economy, powering everything from banking transactions and insurance policies to airline...
When the cloud revolution began, speed was everything. DevOps teams-built CI/CD pipelines capable of deploying hundreds of times a day, while DevSecOps added the guardrails to keep this speed secure. But this acceleration came with a blind spot, an unpredictable cloud...
Finding the Right Balance Most architecture teams have been there; the endless meetings, countless reviews, perfect diagrams… and the inevitable delivery delays no one planned for. Striking the right balance between architectural rigour and delivery velocity is...
