The Rietta Blog
Cybersecurity, software, and the law between them.
Since 2005, this blog has covered cybersecurity, software development, and cloud migration, a resource for anyone staying informed about these areas.
03/17/2015
How to use Story Points to Estimate a Web Application Minimum Viable Product
by Frank Rietta
A user story is a concise description of functionality valuable to a user. Once Points are estimated for each, a ballpark budget may be computed.
Read More: How to use Story Points to Estimate a Web Application Minimum Viable Product
03/17/2015
Project Roadmaps can Manage Uncertainty in Startups' Web Applications
by Frank Rietta
How to communicate about realistic budgets and a timeframes because success requires clear communication on Estimates, Targets, and Commitments.
Read More: Project Roadmaps can Manage Uncertainty in Startups' Web Applications
03/13/2015
Get the Current Year in the Ruby programming language
by Frank Rietta
Get the current year in Ruby using Time, Date, or DateTime, then compare benchmark results across these methods on both MRI Ruby 2.2 and JRuby 1.7.19.
Read More: Get the Current Year in the Ruby programming language
02/19/2015
New Video! Understanding & Defending Against Data Breaches
by Frank Rietta
Customer data breaches are happening at an increasing rate. Most are preventable; some would have been stopped by two factor authentication for staff access.
Read More: New Video! Understanding & Defending Against Data Breaches
01/09/2015
Two new videos! How a Ruby on Rails developer can help prevent a Data Breach
by Frank Rietta
Videos on data breaches and Ruby on Rails are now on YouTube! Level up your security knowledge, because good software security needs to be a moral stance!
Read More: Two new videos! How a Ruby on Rails developer can help prevent a Data Breach
10/16/2014
How To Protect Against the POODLE SSLv3 Vulnerability
by Frank Rietta
Read More: How To Protect Against the POODLE SSLv3 Vulnerability
10/13/2014
Commercial Information Security Classification System
by Frank Rietta
Read More: Commercial Information Security Classification System
10/07/2014
Government vs Security - Schneier explains
by Brandon Dees
Law enforcement is upset over Apple and Google's stronger mobile encryption. Bruce Schneier explains why you can't build a backdoor only the good guys can use.
10/02/2014
Raspberry Pi crypto key management project!
by Frank Rietta
A dedicated offline crypto key management system OpenPGP and an SSL Certificate Authority set up for air-gapped operations using a Raspberry Pi B.