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Mike Vizard

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Mike Vizard

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 — devopsy.kinsta.cloud, 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.

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BAND Desktop Application Streamlines Management of AI Coding Agents

BAND today made available a desktop application through which application developers can more easily manage and collaborate with multiple coding agents. Company CEO Arick Goomanovsky said the BAND for Developers application, in addition to providing more context and coordinating handoffs between disparate AI agent sessions, also makes it simpler for developers to intervene whenever an […]

Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min

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Noma Security Discloses Claude Code Desktop Exploit

Security researchers at Noma Security uncovered SneakPeek, a vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code Desktop that allowed malicious JavaScript embedded in large HTML files to bypass sandbox protections and silently steal sensitive local data. The flaw exposed credentials, API tokens and Kubernetes configurations through the application’s preview pane. Although Anthropic has released a security update addressing the exploit, the discovery highlights growing software supply chain risks as AI coding tools become embedded in developer workflows without sufficient security oversight.

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LocalStack Extends Emulation Reach to Microsoft Azure Services

LocalStack has made available a public beta of its platform that enables application developers to emulate Microsoft Azure cloud services on their local machines. Colin Neagle, head of marketing for LocalStack, said LocalStack now enables application developers to build software locally that can run across more than 40 Azure services. Following initial support for cloud […]

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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

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IBM and Red Hat Disclose Discovery of More Than 400 Java Vulnerabilities

IBM and Red Hat this week reported they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Java libraries since launching a Lightwell initiative earlier this year. Additionally, Lightwell Clearinghouse, a program that enables IT organizations to submit specific open source software dependencies for priority review and remediation, is now generally available. Ben […]

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Harness Acquires Augment Code Assets to Expand Reach into AI Coding

Harness today added an artificial intelligence (AI) coding offering to its portfolio after revealing it acquired select assets from Augment Code. The Harness Cosmos Software Factory is based on Cosmos, a set of AI coding agents, an Auggie command line interface (CLI), a Code Context Engine and other related technologies originally developed by Augment Code. […]

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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

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Base44 Unveils AI Platform to Transform Application Development

Base44 this week unfurled a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to foster greater collaboration between software engineers, application designers and product management teams. Yoav Orlev, chief product officer for Base44, said at the core of the Base Code platform is a harness the company developed that enables multiple AI models to be used […]

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AWS AI Agent Surfaces Recommendations to Optimize Cloud Computing Environments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that surfaces recommendations to optimize cost, security, performance and resilience based on the business objectives an organization defines. Jill Fariss, vice president of AWS Support, said the AWS Well-Architected Agent generates code that can be implemented via a command line […]

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Survey Surfaces Sharp Increase in Amount of Code Written by AI

A global survey of 705 developers and IT leaders finds 42% of respondents reporting that artificial intelligence (AI) now writes at least half their code, with only 21% of developers now spending more than half their week writing new code from scratch. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the survey also finds […]

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Perforce Applies Machine Learning to Generate Synthetic Data for App Testing

Perforce Software has added a tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for application development teams to generate synthetic data for application testing purposes. Mayank Ahluwalia, a senior product manager for Perforce Delphix, said Delphix Synthetic Data makes use of machine learning algorithms to generate synthetic data for specific use cases. It […]

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AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a benchmark that can be used to test whether a model can distinguish real vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is actually safe. The Deception Benchmark was created following an evaluation of the capabilities of 12 models from five different providers. In all, the benchmark includes 14,822 samples […]

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Survey: Lack of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security Runs High

A survey of 400 platform and security engineers in the U.S and United Kingdom (UK), finds nearly three quarters (73%) are either only moderately confident (58%) or not confident (15%) in the ability of their existing tools for managing software artifacts to prevent attacks against their organization’s software supply chain. Conducted by Cloudsmith, a provider […]

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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

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Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost

Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]

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Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery

Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]

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AWS Adds Harness to Open Source SDK for Building AI Agents

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has added a harness to the open source software development kit (SDK) it makes available for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents. First introduced last year, the Strands SDK makes it simpler for application developers to use AI models to build and deploy AI agents. The Strands harness […]

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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

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StackHawk Delivers Wingman to Fix Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code

StackHawk this week launched Wingman, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible for application developers to automatically fix vulnerability issues as code is being written. Wingman is designed to install into Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Antigravity. It scans the live application, interprets findings, and fixes vulnerabilities in a way that […]

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