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Progress Expands Scope of Compliance-as-Code Capabilities

Avatar photoBy: Mike Vizard on May 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates.

At the same time, Progress has updated the Progress Chef InSpec framework for automating the discovery of compliance issues to add support for SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, MS SQL platforms along with RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and macOS Monterey.

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Progress has also updated the Progress Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) to add the ability to combine infrastructure configuration processing with compliance audits within a single consolidated policy definition along with a high availability capability that makes certain the platform is always accessible.

Prashanth Nanjundappa, vice president of product management for Progress, said Progress Chef Cloud Security enables DevOps teams to take advantage of a single policy-as-code platform to consistently implement compliance policies alongside security controls across both multiple public clouds and on-premises IT environments.

Progress Chef Cloud Security leverages certified industry benchmarks, such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark, to continually scan and automatically detect security configuration issues at multiple stages within a DevOps pipeline. Progress has now expanded CIS benchmark profile coverage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to include more than 100 customizable pre-built service and resource templates. DevOps teams can take advantage of automated creation of code, test and documentation artifacts for those resources. Finally, visibility into the status and expected completion time for compliance scans has been added along with advanced Shell command support for control and testing without file output.

In general, the ability to address compliance requirements within a DevSecOps workflow has become crucial because the number of misconfigurations that occur in the cloud has exploded. Developers that often have little to no security or compliance expertise are programmatically provisioning cloud infrastructure in a way that, for example, leaves ports wide open. As IT organizations embrace more cloud computing platforms, that security issue only compounds, noted Nanjundappa.

More challenging still, cloud computing environments are becoming more complex with the rise of cloud-native applications based on platforms such as Kubernetes. The odds a developer is going to make a mistake only increase with each microservice deployed.

Progress is betting that, as cloud computing evolves, responsibility for security and compliance will increasingly shift left toward DevOps teams; they’ll be responsible for implementing polices defined by cybersecurity and compliance specialists. The goal is to provide a set of guardrails that make configuration mistakes less likely because policies are being tested within the context of a DevSecOps workflow, said Nanjundappa.

It’s only a matter of time before software supply chain security reviews that are occurring in the wake of a series of high-profile breaches force the DevSecOps issue within more organizations. The goal, of course, should be to eliminate the need to identify DevSecOps as separate from a DevOps workflow. Regardless of the approach, however, the one good thing about all this attention is that application environments will inevitably become a lot more secure.

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