
JFrog swampUP: Keynotes and What’s Next
Techstrong Group’s Alan Shimel recaps the keynotes and what’s next from JFrog swampUP.

CloudBees Unfurls Dual CI/CD Strategy at DevOps World Event
CloudBees took the wraps off the first major update to the open source Jenkins CI/CD platform made in the past several years.

3 Ways to Achieve Faster App Development Without Compromising Security
DevOps teams must maximize development speed without compromising security. Here are three ways to do that.

JFrog’s swampUP 2023: Ready for Next
JFrog’s ninth swampUP conference on September 13, 2023, will focus on DevOps, DevSecOps and being ‘ready for next.’

Does Platform Engineering Make DevOps & DevSecOps Irrelevant?
There’s an integral link between platform engineering and DevSecOps and the broader infrastructure management landscape.

Driving DevOps Excellence: Implementing SLOs for Your DevOps Team
Here’s how adding SLOs to your DevOps team can improve productivity, dependability and client happiness.

The Differences Between DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE
DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE are all quickly gaining traction within the tech world due to their effectiveness and promise of reliability for companies. Each framework provides various levels of safety and scalability—DevOps is agile, DevSecOps prioritizes security above all else and SRE focuses on performance optimization. Together, these are changing how software gets deployed from […]

Low-Hanging Fruit, 2023 Edition: Part One
We’ve been cranking it out, haven’t we? Generating cool new toys for the business, creating new infrastructure to host those new toys and trying our best to secure all this new stuff while maintaining both our sanity and our cadence. And we’re doing it. Kind of. One thing we’re naturally lagging behind on is security. […]

Digital.ai Embraces Multiple AI Classes to Advance DevSecOps
Digital.ai has committed to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and additional machine learning capabilities to its namesake platform for managing DevSecOps workflows.

Extending the GitOps Pipeline: DevSecOps and Trusted Application Delivery
The fusion of DevSecOps and trusted application delivery can extend the GitOps pipeline and add business value.

Communicating Common Web App Security Threats to Developers
Shift left involves providing developers with the context they need to prioritize and remediate threats appropriately.

How to Empower DevSecOps in a Complex Multi-Cloud Landscape
Organizations are embracing cloud-based application delivery for speed of delivery and scale. However, the proliferation of multi-cloud systems to access and maximize the cloud’s capabilities is driving complexity in IT environments. Many organizations do not consider how multi-cloud adoption is expanding their attack surface—and the risk is growing: The 2023 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report found […]

The Security Pipeline
Over the last few years, the ability to secure our applications has grown, and deep integration into the DevOps toolchain has, too. There are more tools doing more security checks protecting more of the infrastructure and source than there have ever been. The key is putting them to use intelligently. We now have the ability […]

Unleashing the Power of AI-Engineered DevSecOps
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that AI-engineered tools can help implement the portion of continuous security practices known as DevSecOps. DevSecOps involves integrating security practices into the DevOps workflow. AI can be used in anomaly detection to identify potential security threats and to automate security […]

It Is Time for DevOps to Focus on Ops
The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them, Agile and DevOps broke the cycle of resistance … but only for development. The confusion around CI/CD is a […]

Snyk to Add ASPM Platform via Enso Security Acquisition
Snyk this week announced it plans to acquire Enso Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that tracks events and analyzes metadata collected from DevOps and security tools. At the same time, Snyk revealed it has added a DeepCode AI Fix tool that creates validated fixes for code written by either […]

Coming Soon: AutoOps
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at products in the DevOps toolchain and paying attention to where they are going, what they are doing that is new and how they are differentiated. That has led me to one inescapable conclusion: AutoOps is on the way. What is AutoOps? AutoOps is full robotic automation; the […]

Atlassian Advances DevSecOps via Jira Integrations
Atlassian announced today it has allied with Snyk, Mend, Lacework, Stackhawk and JFrog to make it simpler to aggregate vulnerability data within the Jira project management software that many organizations rely on to manage application development and deployment efforts. Andrew Pankevicius, a senior product manager for Atlassian, said the collaborations will make it easier to […]

The Role of SBOMs in Software Supply Chain Security
The software supply chain has become increasingly complex and dynamic with the rise of cloud computing, open source software and third-party software components and APIs. Widespread damage can occur if third-party APIs, cloud services, SDKs and open source software have security flaws. As a result, software supply chain security has emerged as a critical concern […]

Despite DevOps, Software Supply Chain Security Challenges Persist
A survey of 397 IT, cybersecurity and application development professionals conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that while most respondents work for organizations that have adopted DevOps practices, multiple software supply chain security issues and DevSecOps concerns have yet to be addressed. The survey, conducted on behalf of Data Theorem, a provider of a […]

DevOps Security: Your Complete Checklist
In a fast-paced environment like DevOps, your security strategy needs to be even more agile. While moving fast is great for delivering application features and functionality, speed shouldn’t come at the cost of security. DevOps security incorporates security strategies directly into your DevOps pipeline, creating a culture of pre-secured software deployments that work seamlessly for […]

AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project
At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project. In addition, AWS launched SnapChange, an open source fuzz testing tool that […]

FIDO/WebAuthn Passkeys is Inevitable: Get on the Train ¦ IBM CEO Hates WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: The Passkeys authentication standard gets a huge boost, and Arvind Krishna wants workers back in the office.