Andrios Robert

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How to Add a Database Column Without Downtime

The database cursor blinked like a loaded gun. A single change could break the system or make it scale. You need a new column. And you need it without downtime, without data loss, without wrecking performance in production. A new column sounds simple. In practice, it can trigger lock contention,

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A single shadow account can sink your entire SaaS stack.

Dast SaaS governance is not optional anymore. Complex ecosystems of tools, logins, permissions, and APIs mean every misstep can turn into an attack vector or a costly compliance failure. Without clear governance, shadow IT grows unchecked, user roles sprawl, and security policies drift from their intended design. Good governance starts

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Adding a New Column to Your Database: Best Practices and Considerations

A new column changes the shape of your data. It can store computed values, track state, or hold relationships that didn’t exist before. In SQL, the ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN statement makes it permanent. In document databases, the schema may be flexible, but your application code still needs to

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Dynamic Application Security Testing for REST APIs

The scanner lit up red. A single unpatched endpoint had just exposed a production database. That’s the moment many teams discover the real weight of insecure APIs. Dynamic Application Security Testing for REST APIs—DAST REST API—exists to make sure that moment never comes. It’s a focused

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How to Safely Add a New Column to a Database at Scale

Adding a new column to a database table sounds simple. It rarely is. The way you define, backfill, and deploy it can make the difference between a smooth release and a full outage. Schema changes at scale demand planning because every query, transaction, and index can be affected. Start with

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How to Build a High-Performing Dast QA Team

Automated scanners were chewing through endpoints. Alerts were flying. But the real magic wasn’t in the tools—it was in how the team moved. Fast. Deliberate. Deadly accurate. They didn’t wait for problems to blow up in production. They hunted them down at the source. A Dast QA

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How to Add a New Database Column Without Downtime

Adding a new column should be simple. In practice, it can stall deployments, block teams, and break production if handled carelessly. Schema changes touch live data. They can trigger locks, cause downtime, or require expensive migrations. For teams moving fast, the wrong migration strategy turns a routine update into an

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Adding a New Column Without Breaking Your Database

The schema wasn’t wrong. It was incomplete. You open the migration file and there it is — a missing field, a gap in the data model. You know what comes next: a new column. Adding a new column is more than a quick ALTER TABLE. It changes how data is

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The database waited, silent, until you made the first move: ADD COLUMN

A new column changes everything. It extends a schema, reshapes queries, and alters how code interacts with data. Done right, it unlocks features and performance gains. Done wrong, it ships bugs, bottlenecks, or downtime. The moment you type ALTER TABLE is the moment structure meets risk. Adding a new column

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The schema was perfect until the day you had to add a new column

A single change in a database is never just one line in a migration file. A new column can break queries, slow writes, and ripple through APIs, jobs, and reporting pipelines. Schema evolution demands precision or the cost compounds fast. Adding a new column starts with defining the correct data

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Shift Left with DAST: Catch Vulnerabilities Before They Reach Production

That’s the moment you understand why DAST needs to shift left. Waiting until the end to scan for vulnerabilities turns security into a lottery. You might catch one, you might miss one, but either way, you’re gambling with code, time, and trust. Shifting left with DAST means you

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DAST Session Replay: Turning Vulnerability Reports into Real-Time Attack Visuals

The first time you watch a session replay from a live DAST scan, it hits you like a warning flare. You see every click, every request, every flaw surface in real time. There’s no guesswork. No waiting for static reports. Just a living map of how the attack unfolds

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How to Add a New Column Without Downtime

Adding a new column is one of the most common schema changes, yet it can sabotage uptime if done recklessly. The right approach keeps performance steady, preserves data integrity, and works in production without locking tables for hours. First, decide why you need the new column. Is it for storing

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Dast Single Sign-On: One Login for Every Door

Dast Single Sign-On (SSO) takes control of identity from a messy sprawl of passwords, tokens, and session hacks, and turns it into one seamless, secure checkpoint. With Dast SSO, authentication stops being a patchwork problem and becomes a system you can trust and scale. It’s built for speed, designed

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Shift-Left DAST: Catch Vulnerabilities Before They Hit Production

It didn’t have to happen. Shift-left testing with DAST can catch it before it breathes. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) used to live at the tail end of development. You wrote the code, pushed the build, staged it, and then ran DAST to check for common vulnerabilities like SQL

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Why Contractor Access Control Onboarding Fails and How to Fix It

A contractor walked through the lobby, swiped a badge that should have been deactivated weeks ago, and went straight into the server room. That is how most access control nightmares start. Not with a breach from the outside, but with a gap in the contractor onboarding and offboarding process. Without

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Contractor Access Control and Identity Access Management (IAM): Securing Third-Party Access

A contractor plugged into your network once had more access than your full-time engineers. Nobody noticed until it was too late. This is the risk that Contractor Access Control and Identity and Access Management (IAM) are designed to eliminate. Yet many teams still rely on scattered spreadsheets, outdated permissions, and

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Adding a New Column to a Production Database Without Downtime

Adding a new column in a production database sounds simple until you weigh the risks. Downtime. Locking. Silent failures. The wrong migration can block writes, spike latency, or crash critical services. The right migration adds the column without slowing the system, with every safeguard in place. Start by defining the

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How to Safely Add a New Column to a Database in Production

Adding a new column sounds simple. It isn’t. Schema changes can lock tables, stall writes, or break critical queries. In high-traffic systems, every second counts. The difference between a smooth deployment and a production outage is in how you plan and execute the change. A new column starts with

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Adding a New Column to a Production Database Without Downtime

The schema was locked, but now you need a new column. The code waits. The migration isn’t written. Every second the gap widens between what’s deployed and what’s required. You can’t just add fields blindly. You have to understand the cost, the scope, and the impact.

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Team Mercurial: The Adaptive Cybersecurity Force

They called it Mercurial because it never sat still. One week it was crushing a zero-day exploit in a forgotten dependency. The next, it was tracing a breach back to a rogue process three continents away. The Cybersecurity Team Mercurial is not a static unit. It’s a living system,

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The night the contractor broke production, we realized our access control was theater.

Every admin account, every VPN tunnel, every firewall rule looked tight on paper. But auditors don’t catch what you never thought to check. Outside vendors and temporary engineers had access to the same systems as full‑time staff. And no one knew exactly when their keys were still valid.

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Winning the War for Multi-Cloud Security: How Cybersecurity Teams Can Eliminate Blind Spots

The breach was silent, but it wasn’t small. One misconfigured cloud role spun out of control. Logs flooded in from three providers. None told the whole story. The clock was ticking, and the gaps between each cloud’s security controls were exactly where the threat lived. This is the

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Strong contractor access control starts here

Not because they did anything wrong, but because the system guarding access was smarter than a shared password or a hasty account deactivation. It was Kerberos, enforcing contractor access control with rules sharp enough to cut through sloppy security practices. Contractor accounts are a high‑risk surface. They work on

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Safe and Fast Database Column Additions in Production

Adding a new column should be fast, predictable, and safe. Yet in production systems with live traffic, schema changes can lock tables, block queries, and trigger downtime. The difference between a clean migration and a painful outage often comes down to the method you choose. A ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN