Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.
Aqua Security Finds New Cryptojacking Technique
Aqua Security this week issued an alert about a new type of cryptojacking attack that uses containers to consume network bandwidth rather than CPU resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Assaf Morag, lead data ...
Deepfence Expands Scope of Open Source Container Security Platform
Deepfence today announced it has updated its open source ThreatMapper project to add expanded visualizations of attack paths and a scanner based on the YARA tool many security researchers use to identify ...
Sysdig Employs AI to Thwart Container Cryptojacking Attacks
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, Sysdig today revealed it is adding machine learning algorithms capable of detecting cryptojacking attacks to its cloud service for securing container applications. The algorithms are ...
CloudNativeDay: Google Sees Containers Improving App Reliability
Containers and serverless computing frameworks play a critical role in making environments more resilient as organizations increasingly depend on the availability of applications to drive revenue. Steve McGhee, co-author of Enterprise Roadmap ...
Thwarting Ransomware Attacks in Kubernetes Environments
In this episode of The View With Vizard, Cloudian CTO Gary Ogasawara explains how to thwart ransomware attacks in Kubernetes environments. The video is above and a transcript of the conversation ...
Migration to Containers, Microservices and Kubernetes
Mirantis CEO Adrian Ionel reflects on the state of Kubernetes two years after acquiring Docker Enterprise. Video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation with Mike Vizard. Male: This ...
Mirantis Adds Lens Pro Edition to IDE Portfolio for Kubernetes
Mirantis has made available a Lens Pro edition of its cloud-native application integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a local instance of Kubernetes. That instance can be automatically provisioned along with on-demand ...
Mirantis Acquires amazee.io to Bring NoOps to K8s
Mirantis today announced it has acquired amazee.io to advance adoption of a “ZeroOps” approach to deploying applications in Kubernetes environments. Amazee.io’s open source Lagoon platform provides a layer of abstraction that analyzes ...
Trend Micro Tightens Container Security Integration in Cloud Platform
Trend Micro today extended its Trend Micro Cloud One platform to more tightly integrate its container security offering. Mike Milner, vice president of cloud technology for Trend Micro, said the latest edition ...
1 Billion Flux Downloads Show GitOps Gaining Ground
Weaveworks today says container images of its open source Flux version control software have now been downloaded more than one billion times. Flux is at the core of Weaveworks’ GitOps platform. In ...

