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The SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Web 3.0 to Agentic AI: How Tray is Giving LLMs a Body and BrainIn this deep-dive with Alistair Russell, Co-founder and CTO of Tray.ai, we explore the evolution from semantic web research with Tim Berners-Lee to building Merlin, an agentic AI platform that's transforming business automation.Discover how Tray enables large language models to not just think, but act, with context, governance, and composability at scale. 2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMastering Modern Threats: Checkpoint's Roy Barda on WAF, API, and Contextual AIJoin Roy Barda, Director and Head of CloudGuard WAF at Checkpoint, for a comprehensive look at securing web applications and APIs in today's complex environment.Roy explains Checkpoint's unique AI-driven WAF solution that moves beyond static signatures to proactively identify zero-day threats and reduce false positives. He also discusses their robust API security platform, offering automated discovery, strong enforcement, and future plans for detecting misuse anomalies.Learn about the power of contextual AI in enhancing security measures and get a live demonstration of CloudGuard WAF's intuitive interface and powerful threat prevention capabilities. 2025-07-2841 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCNAPP, eBPF, and Beyond: How Sweet Security Delivers Runtime-First Cloud ProtectionSarah Elkaim, the Head of Product Marketing at Sweet Security breaks down how their real-time, eBPF-powered runtime protection is transforming cloud-native security.From dynamic baselining to proprietary LLMs, discover how Sweet is cutting incident response times to minutes and eliminating false positives, redefining what CNAPP can do.2025-07-2845 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond Compliance: Neil Levine Reveals How Anchore is Revolutionizing SBOM ManagementJoin us for an insightful conversation with Neil Levine, SVP Product at Anchore, as we dive into the evolving world of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs).Discover how SBOMs are transitioning from mere compliance necessities to powerful tools for enhancing software supply chain security. Neil shares Anchore's latest product release, focusing on critical features like "Bring Your Own SBOM" for diverse SBOM management, and the innovative Anchore Rank for prioritizing vulnerabilities.Learn about the operational challenges organizations face with SBOM sprawl and quality, and get a glimpse into the future of SBOM insights and automation. 2025-07-2837 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastZero Trust Authorization for Non-Human Identities: A Deep Dive with Cerbos' Alex OlivierJoin Alex Olivier, Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, as he uncovers the massive growth of non-human identities (NHIs) in modern systems. From ephemeral AI agents to IoT devices.Discover why traditional identity management falls short and how Cerbos enables a true zero-trust architecture by authorizing every machine and workload identity in real-time. Alex also shares insights into Cerbos' flexible, stateless approach and their upcoming release. 2025-07-2840 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond Traditional AppSec: Navigating the New Frontier of AI Security with Mend AIHear from Bar-El Tayouri, Head of Mend AI, about the urgent need for a new approach to securing AI-driven applications.From understanding novel AI components and their risks to implementing a comprehensive AppSec program, this episode provides actionable insights for organizations building with AI.2025-07-2838 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCloudBolt x StormForge: Why Automated FinOps Beats Human EffortKyle Campos, CTO of CloudBolt, joins us to talk about the failure of the 'report factory' model in FinOps. Too many teams generate dashboards, but few actually remediate waste.CloudBolt is changing that with an orchestration-first approach that closes the loop from insight to action. Kyle also explains how the StormForge acquisition supercharges Kubernetes optimization with real-time automation.2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Minecraft to Kubernetes Security: The Founding Story of Edera with Alex ZenlaJoin us for a fascinating conversation with Alex Zenla, Co-founder & CTO of Edera, as she shares her unconventional journey from the Minecraft community and IoT to building a cutting-edge Kubernetes security solution.Learn about the "aha" moments that led to Edera's unique approach to container isolation, their focus on security and efficiency, and their plans for the future of cloud-native infrastructure.2025-07-2852 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastUnmasking Shadow AI: Witness AI & Network Observability for the Era of Agentic AITraditional security measures often fall short when it comes to the evolving world of agent-based and shadow AI.Discover the power of network-based observability in this insightful conversation with Trevor Welsh, VP Product at Witness AI.Learn how Witness AI provides unprecedented visibility into AI interactions, enabling enterprises to identify risks, enforce policies, and protect sensitive data across all AI usage.2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCloud Security in the Age of AI: Insights from Dot Security's CTOLearn about the current state of cloud security and the impact of artificial intelligence in this conversation with Jeff Leder, CTO of Dot Security. We explore common security challenges, the "shift left" philosophy, and the evolving threats and opportunities presented by AI in the cyber landscape.2025-07-2847 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMitigant's cloud attack emulation: Real security testing without breaking productionWe had a chat with Nils Karn, Co-Founder & CEO, Mitigant, and Thomas Fricke, Co-Founder & Advisor, Mitigant about the concept of cloud attack emulation.It involves simulating attacks like ransomware to test the resilience of a system, emphasizing that it's not a simulation but an actual attack executed in a controlled environment.Mitigant conducts these attack emulations on pre-production systems rather than simulations or exact copies, to ensure the results are highly accurate.2025-05-2148 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastAviatrix and the surprising upside of better cloud firewallsScott Leatherman, CMO, Aviatrix, joins us to highlight the challenges of securing cloud-native environments, and the need for modern firewall solutions.Aviatrix's Kubernetes Firewall helps reduce IP exhaustion and provides east-west and egress security. A surprising offshoot of doing cloud and Kubernetes firewalls the right way is being able to modernize your applications.Tune in to hear a unique take on cloud network security.2025-05-2140 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCalico v3.30 brings observability, staged policies and more to improve Kubernetes network securityReza Ramezanpour, Developer Advocate at Tigera joins us to talk about v3.30 of Project Calico.This release focuses on enhanced observability and a staged network policy feature that allows for non-enforcing policy testing without impacting cluster performance. Calico 3.30 introduces integration with the Gateway API, enabling advanced ingress traffic control and micro-segmentation capabilities.Tune in to hear from one of the innovators in the Kubernetes networking security space.2025-05-2136 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastOX Security: Only 5% of application security alerts are worth looking atToday's podcast features OX Security, a company revolutionizing application security. OX Security covers the entire application lifecycle, from design to runtime, ensuring comprehensive protection. Their advanced verification system identifies and validates security threats with hard evidence, eliminating guesswork. Boaz Barzel, Field CTO, demonstrates how their dashboard dramatically reduces noise, filtering over 500,000 security alerts down to the most critical 2.08%. Tune in for an insightful conversation about ASPM.2025-03-0752 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastActiveState wants you to stay a step ahead of open source dependency woesActiveState has been working on managing open source dependencies and builds for over 20 years. They take an 'SBOM-first' approach, generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) first before building applications, providing visibility into dependencies. Active State's platform can discover open source components used across an organization, prioritize vulnerabilities, and provide intelligent remediation recommendations. Tune in as Scott Robertson, CTO, and Pete Garcin, Senior Director of Product at ActiveState talk about all things open source security.2025-01-1355 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastZitadel goes beyond basic authentication into threat intelligence & analysis of authentication dataFlorian Forster, CEO & Co-Founder, Zitadel, joins us in this episode to discuss the challenges of authentication in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments, such as managing token expiration, revocation, and scalability. Forster highlights some common anti-patterns in authentication, like cramming too much data into access tokens and running expensive operations against the identity infrastructure. He shares his vision for the future of authentication, including consolidation with authorization solutions and providing analytical capabilities on identity data. Tune into this episode for a deep dive into authentication.2025-01-1358 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastGrafana brings great Kubernetes observability with the added bonus of cost optimizationVasil Kaftandzhiev and Pete Wall of Grafana Labs join us today to talk about all things Kubernetes observability. Grafana aims to make observability easy by providing tools to get started easily, blend Kubernetes best practices with Grafana Cloud features, and build custom dashboards for precise Kubernetes needs. Grafana offers integrations with various databases, services, and tools out-of-the-box, and supports open telemetry for custom integrations.2024-12-0953 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastAtlas is out to make database schema management declarative and compliantRotem Tamir, CTO, Ariga, joins us today to talk about Atlas, a database-schema-as-code tool that takes a declarative approach to managing database schemas. It enables developers to define the desired state of the schema, and Atlas then handles the planning, verification, and deployment of changes. This way, changes to the schema are automatically planned, verified, and deployed through a GitHub action. Atlas helps platform engineers standardize schema management across different development stacks and provides a control plane for monitoring and governance. Listen to know all about a modern approach to database schema management.2024-12-0942 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastStyra releases Regal – A linter tool for the Rego policy languageThe team at Styra created OPA & Rego. With OPA 1.0 around the corner they have released a new tool to troubleshoot policies written with Rego. Charlie Egan, Senior Developer Advocate at Styra, joins us to talk about all things OPA and demos Regal as well. If policy as code excites you, you won’t want to miss this one.2024-11-2141 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMirantis Lens is the Kubernetes IDE you didn’t know you neededEdward Ionel talks about how Mirantis Lens unifies Dev & Ops around Kubernetes workflows. With unique features, a wide user base, and great flexibility, Lens is sure to ease your Kubernetes operations.
2024-11-2130 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastLTS for discontinued OSS or trouble migrating projectsOpenLogic provides end-to-end support for OSS projects &
LTS for discontinued ones.
Every organization uses and depends on open source. However, with the ever changing open source landscape, tools get discontinued, don't work with each other, and can wreak havoc. OpenLogic has seen it all with open source, and can help get your OSS projects on the right track.
Whether it's LTS for CentOS, Angular, Bootstrap, or middleware integration, OpenLogic does it all. Joe Carder, Enterprise Architect at OpenLogic talk about all things open source in this episode.
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