Kosli Digest: New Features, Integrations, AI Trends, and CrowdStrike's Congressional Apology

Hey Bruce again, wrapping up all the news from September. It can’t be Q4 already?

As you may have noticed, brat girl summer is well and truly over. Halloween fans - your time has arrived. If you have any developer themed fancy dress pics please share them in the Kosli Community Slack.?

See if you can spook us. The best costumes will win some merchandise at the end of October….?

Work is ongoing with Policies and Dashboards Beta. If you'd like early access reach out to the team via [email protected]?

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On the Road with Kosli: Engaging Customers and Exploring Global Trends

September was a busy month for the product team who shipped a bunch of new features and improvements.?

As always, details are in the changelog, but we’re particularly pleased to announce our LaunchDarkly integration. This follows our Sonarcloud/Sonaqube integrations last month. What integrations would you like to see next? Let us know in Slack.?

Back on the road, there’s been no let up in the travel schedule as Mike and Billy continue to clock up more air miles than Chuck Yeager. After attending the OWASP summit on home turf in San Francisco last week, the boys made the trip to New York for the Finos event. Next week it’s back to London.?

With all this air travel, we’ll continue to plant trees with the good folks at Ecologi to offset our carbon footprint.?

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?? WHAT'S GOING ON

Crowdstrike executive apologizes before Congress

Regular readers will know we’ve been tracking the Crowdstrike story since the summer. Two months on from their disastrous incident in July, their executives are still managing the fallout. The incident, initially mistaken for a cyber-attack, led to mass crashes and the infamous “blue screen of death” on Windows computers.?

Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president for counter-adversary operations, apologized before Congress for the disruption, acknowledging the company’s responsibility. He explained the issue stemmed from an improper threat-detection configuration.?

Meyers explained that Crowdstrike has since revised its processes to prevent future large-scale outages, including staggered software rollouts and allowing customers to delay updates. He went on to say that Crowdstrike is determined to improve its service reliability and restore customer trust. With the stock price recovering by 5.2% in September, it would seem that the apology tour is working.?

Microsoft, who had millions of devices bricked by the update and copped most of the bad publicity, held a summit in September to address the security issues raised by the outage.?

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AI is coming for everything, but what will it mean for cybersecurity?

The big theme at every event we’ve attended this year is AI. It’s everywhere - and soon it’ll be powering?a bunch of new features in your iPhone. Although Apple Intelligence wasn’t ready for September’s launch of the iPhone 16, it will be ready later in October.?

Key features will include text rewriting, proofreading, summarizing, smart replies, and updates to Siri. Siri will also get a visual redesign and improved natural language processing via Apple’s on-device language model. Additional capabilities include photo editing tools, call transcription, and Visual Intelligence, which identifies objects and retrieves information from photos.?

But, as AI quickly takes over all our devices, what will it mean for cybersecurity? Will hackers be able to leverage AI to launch better attacks? Or will cybersecurity experts be able to use AI to defend their systems more effectively? This fascinating piece in techzine takes a look from both angles.?

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?? UPDATES

Product Updates

Last but not least, here’s all the latest product updates:

? LaunchDarkly Integration: Kosli now integrates with LaunchDarkly, enabling versioned tracking of feature flag changes for improved audit, compliance, and incident response.

?? Snapshot Lambda Functions: The latest update to Kosli CLI allows users to snapshot all or specific Lambda functions, excluding certain ones using new –exclude and –exclude-regex flags.

?? Improved Environment Log and Snapshot Pages: Kosli has updated the UI and structure of the Environment Log and Snapshot pages to make key artifact information more accessible and easier to navigate.

?? Excluded Paths in Directory Fingerprints: Kosli now supports a .kosli_ignore file to exclude specified files or directories from directory fingerprints, ensuring more accurate artifact tracking.

For more details on the new features check out September’s changelog?

For more details, head over to kosli.com and check it out!

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?? COMING SOON

If you'd like to be involved in helping shape our next set of features check out our feature briefs for… ?? Logical Environments - Read more

? Environment Policies - Read more

That's all for this month Until next time,

Bruce