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April 13, 2020
No, You Don’t Need Kubernetes for DevSecOps
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
If you google “DevSecOps”, you will find many references to deployment pipelines, and one of the most popular is from AWS (depicted in the diagram on the below). The pipeline involves many quickly evolving technologies…
March 27, 2020
TCG’s Strategy for Offsetting and Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
As a Certified B Corp, TCG is committed to doing good in the community and the world. Making this commitment meant that we had to carefully examine the environmental impact of our company, particularly our carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. As…
March 16, 2020
Will the Internet Handle Everyone Telecommuting?
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
On Facebook, someone asked me if the Internet would handle the increased traffic caused by everyone staying at home and telecommuting. I found that question to be fascinating and did some quick research. Here’s an extended…
March 10, 2020
Faster OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanning
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
OpenVAS is a system vulnerability scanner that checks visible ports, services it can access for known exploits, and high level web threats (like cross-site script vulnerabilities and improper file access). The TCG Tech Team uses it…
March 4, 2020
DevOps: a Top-Level View
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
There are myriad approaches, tools, and goals associated with the term “DevOps”. Inspired by a recent webinar I attended that presented a rather abstract view of DevOps, I went on a hunt for a concise synopsis of the term that covered…
January 23, 2020
Yes, You Can Run Docker AND Virtualbox on Windows 10 Home
By Al Crowley, TCG Principal Engineer
Running Docker containers on a Windows 10 PC has been difficult for the last few years. It’s even more difficult if you want to run VirtualBox virtual machines (VM) at the same time. A casual Google…
January 13, 2020
Can Machine Learning Solve Your Problem?
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Machine learning (ML) is all over the news. It can beat humans at Go, but has caused a backlash grading Utah students’ essays. So what problems can we effectively solve by an ML system right now?…
January 2, 2020
What’s the Process for Filling Senior Level Positions in Federal Government?
The Presidential appointment process has gotten a lot of attention from the press lately for a variety of reasons. Understandably so, the path to getting appointed to senior office can be quite complex, depending on the role a nominee is seeking. Among the…
December 19, 2019
A Review of Successful Applications of Machine Learning in Government Tech
Over the past several months the TCG R&D lab has been investigating how federal agencies can successfully utilize artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning to meet their mission objectives. Machine learning can be described, in layman’s terms, as…
December 10, 2019
Healthier, Safer Code with Static Analysis
By Al Crowley, TCG Principal Engineer
Sometimes good people do bad things. Occasionally a person even commits an API key to a public GitHub repository. Once in a while, that person is you—but last month that person was me. The good news is…