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As the digital landscape enters the age of Artificial Intelligence, the traditional methods of securing applications are being fundamentally challenged. The emergence of advanced AI models has shifted the advantage towards attackers. With AI, even a novice attacker is now weaponized into a sophisticated hacker while operating semi-autonomously at very low cost, and unprecedented scale. Imagine the massive damage that ransomware gangs and/or nation-state actors could do with these cyber weapons. In recent times, ransomware attacks have led to business operations going offline for weeks and months, resulting in financial losses in hundreds of millions of dollars. ...

Modern Kubernetes applications leveraging VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) demand agility but many enterprises still rely on multi-vendor ingress solutions that create operational silos and drive up complexity. This fragmentation increases costs, reduces efficiency, obscures visibility into applications while bolt-on security leaves gaps in protection. To address these challenges, organizations must adopt a unified ingress strategy that integrates performance, security, and automation at scale. It is also worth noting that the Kubernetes project announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX Controller . This leaves many Kubernetes ingress installations without ...

The Kubernetes Project announced in November 2025 that the open-source Ingress NGINX controller is being retired , an announcement that immediately impacted platform engineering teams globally. As the deprecation deadline is this month (March 2026), crucial support, security patches, and critical bug fixes will cease suddenly. The deadline is rapidly creating understandable anxiety among platform teams as they urgently seek a supported, viable alternative. This imminent migration , however, can be viewed as a strategic opportunity to reduce existing technical debt and adopt a modern Kubernetes solution that supports Gateway API out of the box as well ...