https://stigian.com/insights.html Public writing and technical notes from Stigian Consulting. en-us Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/security-assessments-within-devsecops.html https://stigian.com/insights/security-assessments-within-devsecops.html The processes are tedious to review, like finding a particular needle in haystacks of documents spread throughout a system lifecycle. Technical Notes Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/github-enterprise-cloud-for-federal-and-dod-software-projects-part-1-source-code-and-cui.html https://stigian.com/insights/github-enterprise-cloud-for-federal-and-dod-software-projects-part-1-source-code-and-cui.html Most of our source code does not have a "military or space application", is not CUI, and therefore it is perfectly acceptable to use GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) for storing source code for Federal and DoD software projects. Technical Notes Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/lsvpc-tool.html https://stigian.com/insights/lsvpc-tool.html lsvpc is a command line utility written in Go that makes concurrent requests to more than a dozen EC2 SDK methods, stitching together the information it receives into a terse, hierarchical structure. Technical Notes Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/aws-backup-for-ec2-instances-defined-by-iac-terraform.html https://stigian.com/insights/aws-backup-for-ec2-instances-defined-by-iac-terraform.html How do we recover an instance, but still maintain the ability to manage the resource with Terraform? Technical Notes Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/stigian-consulting-enables-compass-lexecon-to-provide-world-leading-economics-research-and-consulting-services.html https://stigian.com/insights/stigian-consulting-enables-compass-lexecon-to-provide-world-leading-economics-research-and-consulting-services.html Stigian Consulting today announced that it has enabled Compass Lexecon to provide world-leading economics research and consulting services to its clients.These environments leverage a variety of AWS services to facilitate access to analytics tools and technologies. Client Outcomes Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/simplifying-aws-security-group-management-with-terraform-and-csv.html https://stigian.com/insights/simplifying-aws-security-group-management-with-terraform-and-csv.html AWS Security Groups act as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. When you have a large number of rules, managing them can become complex and error-prone. This blog post introduces a method to simplify this process using Terraform and CSV files. Technical Notes Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/threats-in-ai.html https://stigian.com/insights/threats-in-ai.html Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become very powerful, scalable, and easy to use, which is a dangerous combination for aggressive cyber operations. Perspectives Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/what-is-generative-ai.html https://stigian.com/insights/what-is-generative-ai.html In the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms like ChatGPT are used to make new content. AI is a type of machine learning that lets computers learn from examples, like putting things into groups. Perspectives Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/state-of-quantum-computing-summer-2023.html https://stigian.com/insights/state-of-quantum-computing-summer-2023.html There is much discussion in advanced breakthroughs in computing lately and quantum computing (QC) has been a topic of interest. This article will go through the latest QC advances and consider how well it performs on real world problems. Perspectives Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/defining-instance-types-in-aws.html https://stigian.com/insights/defining-instance-types-in-aws.html AWS ImageBuilder default pipeline sometimes changes instance types, leading to strangeness. Technical Notes Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/using-terraform-locals-to-minimize-repetition.html https://stigian.com/insights/using-terraform-locals-to-minimize-repetition.html Locals tags can be used to minimize code repetition in terraform. Technical Notes Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/aws-ssm-parameter-setting-strategy-in-terraform.html https://stigian.com/insights/aws-ssm-parameter-setting-strategy-in-terraform.html We use AWS SSM parameters to store specifics of our deployed infrastructure, and to share those specifics between terraform projects deployed in an environment. Technical Notes Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://stigian.com/insights/add-gitattributes-to-your-iac.html https://stigian.com/insights/add-gitattributes-to-your-iac.html Adding a .gitattributes file to your git repo can easily let WIndows and other users collaborate without newline problems. Technical Notes Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT