flatpak: How to deal with unwanted package updates

Not all software is available as package for my Linux distribution. That's why I use flatpak for some applications. Recently, a new app version introduced a bug. It resulted in random crashes. So I looked into a way to get back to an older, more stable app version.

Extend IBM Cloud Security Advisor with your own security metrics

Custom findings in Security Advisor

The IBM Cloud Security Advisor allows for centralized security management. It offers a unified dashboard that alerts security administrators for an IBM Cloud account of issues and helps them in resolving the issues. The advisor supports the integration of third-party vendors as well as custom findings. Using a REST API or programming language SDKs, it is possible to manage your own security metrics - from creating incident types and events to displaying them on the unified dashboard. In this and a follow-up post, I am going to give you a quick introduction to the Security Advisor and then discuss the code I made available on GitHub in the repo security-advisor-findings. It simplifies to management of custom objects and provides functions for some of my security scans.

PureSystems meets Data: Register for October 9th event

Something cool is coming up on October 9th. The following video includes a registration link for the announcement event. I am not allowed to tell you what it is, but it is neither a new iPhone, electric car, next version of DB2, nor anything related to any elections coming up. It is related to expert knowledge, hardware and software integration, and your future in IT...