Mattermost has embarked on a transformative journey in cloud optimization. This journey is marked by strategic initiatives, innovative approaches, and valuable lessons, all aimed at enhancing efficiency and reducing costs. This blog post explores the successful strategies that have guided our cloud optimization efforts. It also highlights our future direction with an emphasis on ARM/Graviton workloads and shares insights from our experiences, particularly regarding spot instances.

The average data breach already costs organizations $4.45 million, and it appears that damages will only become more expensive as time goes on. In fact, one report found that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion by 2025. While organizations can’t necessarily prevent hackers from targeting their systems, they can take proactive steps to strengthen cybersecurity and develop incident response plans that enable them to keep bad actors at bay and swiftly address incidents whenever they occur.

Hello, Mattermost community! We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Mattermost AI Copilot beta, a groundbreaking addition to the Mattermost platform. This plugin is not just a tool. It’s a way for organizations to deploy artificial intelligence in mission-critical environments — a true game-changer. With that in mind, let’s explore how this plugin will establish new standards in workplace collaboration for Mattermost Enterprise customers.

In November 2023 we discovered an issue in the Go standard library’s net/http.Client that allowed an attacker who controls redirect targets on a server to exfiltrate authentication secrets. Soon after, we discovered a similar issue in net/http/cookiejar.Jar. The issues, collectively designated CVE-2023-45289, have now been fixed in Go 1.22.1 and Go 1.21.8, released on March 5, 2024. This blog post dives into the technical details behind those two bugs and the patch that addresses them.

How would your team stay connected if your primary communication network failed? To keep lines of communication open during emergencies, today’s leading organizations deploy out-of-band communication solutions alongside their main channels. An out-of-band (OOB) communication system exists outside an organization’s primary network. As a result, it enables team members to stay connected when main lines are compromised, corrupted, or otherwise unavailable.

Out-of-band communication systems are critical to keeping IT, operations, and security teams securely connected during emergencies and mission-critical scenarios. By equipping team members with a communication channel that exists outside the organization’s primary network, decision-makers and leaders can rest assured that their teams can collaborate effectively when main communication channels are inaccessible or have been infiltrated.

We’re thrilled to announce that Mattermost has earned the 12th annual DEVIES Award for Best Innovation in ITOps! The award — given to a platform “responsible for acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining the physical and virtual components that comprise IT infrastructure” — was presented on Feb. 21 during DeveloperWeek 2024 to our very own Director of Product Marketing Amanda Cheong and Developer Advocate Andrew Zigler at the Oakland Marriott City Center.

Our mission is to make the world safer and more productive by developing and delivering secure, open source collaboration software. And that mission starts with ensuring that our customers can make informed decisions about their software choices. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Mattermost Trustcenter.

Mattermost v9.4 includes several new features designed to significantly enhance digital security and compliance, including the introduction of IP filtering, bring your own key (BYOK) for data control, and cloud-native compliance export. IP filtering tightens access control, BYOK offers greater data protection through personalized encryption, and streamlined compliance reporting ensures adherence to regulatory standards.

Contributing to open source software helps you develop new skills, gain real-world coding experience, interact with new technologies, and meet new people. But with so many open source projects to choose from — developers started some 52 million new projects on GitHub in 2022 alone — it can be difficult to figure out which repositories to contribute to. If you’re thinking about joining a new open source project in 2024, you’ve come to the right place.