Software Patterns - From Textbook To Reality

• Max Beckers Michael Zinsmaier
• 9 Min To Read
• 10 Dec, 2024
• • Development and programming
  • Software engineering

You studied design patterns? Let us leave the textbooks behind and escape to reality!

Lightweight JSON:API for internal REST endpoints

• Michael Zinsmaier
• 7 Min To Read
• 29 Oct, 2024
• • Software engineering

You want standards for your internal APIs but big frameworks and reflection magic are not your friends? Read this article to get a template for it.

Testcontainers - Automated Network Testing

• Michael Zinsmaier
• 8 Min To Read
• 30 Aug, 2023
• • Development and programming

Introduction

Today let’s talk about reproducible, self contained and most importantly automatable network tests for Java network applications powered by Testcontainers . If you read some of my older articles on Zero Trust Network Architecture (1 , 2 & 3 ) you can easily guess that at Worldline MTS we have some practical applications for that.

ZTNA - For Machine Vendors

• Michael Zinsmaier
• 10 Min To Read
• 01 Feb, 2023
• • Cybersecurity

Zero Trust or as I prefer it Zero Implicit Trust is usually described from the perspective of an IT department, in charge, to protect its users and resources. Sometimes this perspective is extended to the shopfloor owner and I recommend Zero Trust connectivity in industrial environments , a free whitepaper published by Worldline to dive deeper into this topic.

ZTNA - Hacking Time

• Michael Zinsmaier Dimitri Marguerite
• 8 Min To Read
• 06 Jan, 2022
• • Cybersecurity

This is part two of a small series of ZTNA related pieces, today we take a closer look at some of the most prominent hacks of 2021 and examine how different techniques from ZTNA might have helped to prevent them. The intention of this article is to learn from examples, not to belittle others. The examples have been chosen because each of them reached wide media coverage and there is publicly accessible information. For a more thorough introduction see ZTNA fundamentals .

ZTNA - Fundamentals

• Michael Zinsmaier
• 6 Min To Read
• 24 Nov, 2021
• • Cybersecurity

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is a raising architectural model for company networks that brings answers to the challenges of our time (cloud access, secure hybrid cloud, edge & personal devices, mergers & acquisitions, widescale supply chain & ransomware attacks). And while a transformation was already on its way the pandemic put additional pressure on IT departments around the globe, enforcing a new openness, that otherwise might have been delayed for a few additional years.