This month US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a call to arms over the growing cyber attacks on American banks. Joe Townsend explores how these attacks will affect configuration management professionals and quality assurance dilemmas.

Incidents involving voter machine software glitches are raising concerns that some voting machines may be rigged during the upcoming US presidential election. In once such incident, a voting machine company could have learned a lesson on the DevOps approach to improved communications.

By now, most of us are familiar with the agile software development methodology. Typically this methodology uses Scrum, Kanban, or some other discipline to help teams move rapidly and iteratively toward the completion of a software product. But what about agile software configuration management?