Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Mend.io has proactively upgraded 184 open source organizations and GitHub users to the Mend Renovate Community (OSS) plan, with no request required. The upgrade covers about 3,000 repositories with roughly 4 million combined GitHub stars. Maintainers get higher resource limits, more concurrency, and access to Merge Confidence.

Most customers start CertKit with SSL host monitoring. On day one, you point CertKit at the systems you already run and get every certificate and when it expires. You start with confidence that you have everything under control. Then, you automate, letting CertKit take over the certificates as they need to be renewed. Each renewal is the last time you ever have to worry about that certificate.

Overprivileged Kubernetes ServiceAccounts persist when broad RBAC, cloud IAM permissions, and long-lived credentials outlive their intended use. Reduce overprivileged access with least privileged RBAC, scoped cloud permissions, and short-lived certificates that eliminate static credentials. I spent two days last quarter tracking down why a developer could delete production secrets. The RBAC looked fine. The ClusterRoleBinding said edit, not cluster-admin.

The NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a set of fundamental, outcome-based practices that integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Documented in NIST SP 800-218, it helps organizations reduce vulnerabilities, prevent recurrences, and establish a common language for secure development. The SSDF outlines dozens of tasks grouped into four high-level categories.

In February, Let’s Encrypt announced that DNS-PERSIST-01 was coming, “some time in Q2 2026.” It’s October, and it’s nowhere close to ready. We’ve been waiting for DNS-PERSIST-01 since January, along with every other ACME client and lots of organizations. DNS-PERSIST-01 promised to simplify domain validation and make automation easier, but we had to wait on Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is waiting on a redesign, a standards body, and maybe one more vote.

Attacking a CI/CD pipeline used to require a specialist who understood Git internals, cloud identity, and the way build runners handle secrets. That is no longer true. The barrier to entry for an advanced attack has dropped to the level of writing prompts in English. Automation itself is not new to DevOps, but AI has raised its ceiling on both sides of the fence.