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November 2024

What Is Buffer Overflow? Preventing Buffer Overrun

Buffer overflow is one of the most common code vulnerabilities. If a buffer overflow vulnerability is not addressed, an untrustworthy agent can take advantage and cause a buffer overrun. In this blog, we break down what is buffer overflow, how to prevent buffer overflow, and we provide examples to help make safeguarding your software against buffer overflow simpler and easier. Read along or jump ahead to the section that interests you the most.

What is Perforce Helix DAM?

Helix DAM is an intuitive digital asset management solution from Perforce — makers of the industry standard version control platform, Helix Core. Why You Need Digital Asset Management Helix DAM is specialized for today’s popular 3D file formats (including.fbx, .usd, .glb, and.gltf). Helix DAM gives your art and design teams a central place to find, review, and get feedback on every version of the models, textures, and materials they create—while giving your studio the speed and security to collaborate with contractors and vendors.

GLB and GLTF Rendering in Helix DAM

In our latest release, Helix DAM 2024.5, our integration with Helix Plan expands Helix’s DAM compatibility with the rest of our Digital Creation tools. In addition, DAM now supports GLB and GLFT file formats, including animation controls. And you can now add tags in bulk to files within a folder. In this video, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Ryan Maffesoli showcases the 2024.5 Helix DAM updates: Helix Plan + DAM integration Support for GLB and GLTF file formats Adding multiple tags to assets in folders.

9 Tips for Working With Legacy Code

What is legacy code? Legacy code is source code that already exists and needs to be used again. It's not necessarily lousy code, but it often needs some effort to integrate into newer systems. That means you need effective ways of overcoming legacy code's issues. What are your chances of working with legacy code? Given that most of the top 10 programming languages on the TIOBE popularity index have been around for at least 20 years, your chances are very high.

Honing a DevOps Edge | Perforce's Vision and Roadmap 2025

Never before have the promises and perils of enterprise innovation been so great. An entire class of innovation built on AI creates enormous potential for delighting customers, igniting productivity and launching new offerings. But these opportunities are coupled with evolving risks, while mature enterprises must manage a broad portfolio of systems and applications. How will your DevOps teams quickly capitalize on the promises while mitigating new risks and tending to a more complex technology landscape?

Achieving Escape Velocity: Thriving on Complexity to Drive Agility | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Many businesses are struggling with the large mass of investments, complexity and technical debt of their IT estates. How can IT leaders create velocity and agility in this reality? In this executive panel, our session moderator, will lead a discussion with other IT leaders on how they’re employing modern practices, data and tools to embrace complexity and move faster without attempting impractical, failure-prone changes to the way they operate. You’ll learn proven practices for moving faster, just when your business needs it the most.

Platform Engineering: A Strategy for Productivity, Compliance & Security | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Platform engineering has emerged as an essential discipline for empowering application development and DevOps teams to deliver better software faster, while seamlessly addressing security and compliance requirements. In this keynote, Sanjeev Sharma, SVP of Platform Engineering for Dell Technologies, will share how his business delivers a comprehensive, automated platform for its teams. He’ll give an update on their progress and achievements, while addressing the most challenging roadblocks they’ve faced along the way.