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How the 2010s Blew Up the Monolithic Website into Decoupled Architectures

Early in my career as a developer working with educational institutions, media organizations and other large companies, I could see that I stood on a figurative battlefield.

IT departments had fought a war with their marketing or communications counterparts over who truly owned the website. IT departments had incentives to slow down changes to prioritize stability and security. Marketing professionals had incentives to chase faster changes. That often meant giving more people access to more layers of the stack. 

How to Fight Cyberattacks with Pantheon's Security Tools

Learn how one company managed to mitigate malicious attacks with Pantheon’s security tools.

It was an early morning in October when a sysadmin woke up to some odd behavior on the sites he manages. He noticed some websites were incredibly slow while others were receiving more than 15 times their usual traffic. The sysadmin quickly suspected a cyberattack might be underway. He was correct, but what he didn’t know was that he’d be fighting this sophisticated attack for months to come. 

Threat Modeling is Table Stakes for Security

Table-stakes security often means a checklist to get the security team off the back of the web team. This approach is weak from every perspective: a frustrating web and security collaboration process, vulnerability to excessive spending with security vendors and loose credential hygiene. A holistic threat modeling approach — centering collaboration and effectiveness — can redefine table stakes to everyone’s benefit.

Here are four common approaches followed by tips to center threat modeling.

Top 9 Resources: WordPress Version Control

Version control systems can be used to simplify the setup and deployment of your WordPress site. The Git Distributed Version Control System (VCS) is one of the most commonly-used version control solutions, and several WordPress plugins have been developed to streamline the usage of WordPress together with Git. Below we present our top links from across the web that introduce Git and several solutions for simplifying the usage of Git as a WordPress VCS.

 

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