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Strategic and technical articles from the UDX team - covering compliance, cloud architecture, DevOps, and digital transformation.

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CMMC Phase II Is Suspended. Your Security Obligations Are Not. The Pentagon halted third-party audits, but NIST 800-171, DFARS 7012, and the signed affirmation still apply. A plain-language guide for defense contractors. WP2Shell: What the WordPress REST API Vulnerability Means for Your Business A critical WordPress core REST API flaw enables unauthenticated site takeover. Where the vulnerability lives, and how to check your site. Blocking WP2Shell: A Play-by-Play of AI-Driven Incident Response When a zero-day campaign hit our fleet, an AI CLI shipped the fix through two pull requests, plan-only CI validation, and log-verified rollout - in one evening. Your Pipeline Agent Should Not Hold the Keys AI agents are moving into CI/CD, where build containers have always been trusted completely. The guardrails to put in place before you let one run. Letting AI Agents Work on Production An AI agent ships code and content to this site daily under full SDLC controls. The delivery system that makes agent access to production boring. Your Branch Name Is Your Deployment Policy A twelve-line YAML policy maps git branches to environments, gates production behind branch protection, and makes idle environments disposable. Shipping a Kubernetes App to the Azure Marketplace Defender-zero image supply chains, CNAB packaging, non-root CI, and purchase-flow validation - the engineering behind a certified marketplace offer. WordPress at a Million Visitors Can WordPress handle a million visitors? Yes, with the right architecture: edge caching, stateless Kubernetes tiers, and offloaded media. Preview Environments for Dynamic Sites A preview of a dynamic site has to run: server, secrets, live data, and firewall. How we built one for a Dallas music venue and what it caught.