DevOps Onramp: Security on the Rise
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Codenotary Previews Secure SBOM Creation Service
Codenotary today made available a preview of a centralized repository service for generating and storing software bills of materials (SBOMs) that makes it simpler to securely share them as necessary. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said SBOMCenter will make it easier for organizations to operationalize SBOMs that are being created with greater frequency as the need […]
Cycode Adds ASOC Module to Streamline DevSecOps Workflows
Cycode has added a module to its platform for mapping metadata and events using graph technology that makes it simpler for application development and cybersecurity to consolidate alerts generated by their DevSevOps tools. Lotem Guy, vice president of product for Cycode, said the Cycode Application Security Orchestration and Correlation (ASOC) module will automatically discover all […]
GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains
A global survey of 5,010 IT leaders, CISOs and developers published by GitLab this week found well over half (56%) of respondents are working for organizations that are using DevOps or DevSecOps practices. However, 72% of respondents said they are using a DevSecOps platform (36%) or are considering adopting one in the next year (36%). […]
How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security
Observing the developer job market for the past two years reveals a surprising truth that has a profound impact on technology organizations. In the “new normal” of hybrid work, life moves fast and there’s no sign of slowing down. Since 2021, we’ve witnessed all-time record demand for software engineering developers. The emergence of privately held […]
A DevOps Guide to the Language of DevSecOps
Security is increasingly important for DevOps due to the growing complexity of applications and the accelerated pace of development. As organizations adopt DevOps practices, they face new challenges in securing applications and infrastructure: Increased complexity and automated processes: With automation at the core of DevOps, processes and applications are more intricate. This can introduce vulnerabilities […]
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Synopsys Preps Extensions to Polaris SaaS Platform
Synopsys plans to extend the capabilities of its Polaris Software Integrity Platform for securing application development environments by adding dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools along with the ability to scan code used to provision infrastructure. As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, the Polaris Software Integrity Platform was created by combining the static application security testing […]
Software Supply Chain Risk Management: A 2023 Guide
Software supply chain risk management (SSCRM) refers to the process of identifying, assessing and mitigating risks associated with third-party software components and services that are integrated into software products. SSCRM involves understanding the potential vulnerabilities that may arise from these components and taking measures to reduce the risk of exploitation or compromise to the software […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves
A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive. The survey, conducted by Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), found that just over half (51%) of […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
DevSecOps Provides a Modern Security Model for Modernization
Developers and security experts are now tasked with bolstering, extending and adjusting cloud and Kubernetes security to protect against cyberattacks that are ever more complex, volatile, and frequent. To foil attacks and create a secure foundation for applications and infrastructure from the beginning, DevSecOps (development, security and operations) has become the trending development and operations […]
Good Things Happen When DevSecOps and Cloud Collide
The marriage of cloud and software development is arguably the heart and soul of digital transformation. Providing pathways to greater efficiencies, lower costs and greater enterprise performance, the duo is poised to fundamentally transform industries as we know them. The compounding complexities of hybrid cloud operations and software supply chains, however, have led to a […]
Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams
A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […]
Benefits and Challenges of DevSecOps for Business
Almost every day, there is a new tactic or technique discovered that hackers can use to disrupt a company’s systems, obtain critical data and information or steal money. Often attackers look to exploit vulnerabilities in code to carry out their attacks. Ironically, it’s usually a small piece of code that helps a business perform very […]
Leveraging Automation for Secure, Cost-Effective Mobile App Delivery
As businesses mobilize their customers and employees, they need to develop innovative mobile applications that safeguard user trust. But secure mobile development and manual security testing can be expensive and time-consuming—a bigger challenge in slowing economies. However, the latest innovations in security automation for mobile teams can drive down security costs by half while speeding […]
Appdome Integrates Mobile Security Platform With CircleCI CI/CD
Appdome this week made available an integration for the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform from CircleCI that promises to make it simpler to secure mobile applications before they are deployed. As a provider of a platform for securing mobile applications running on iOS and Android platforms, Appdome provides a runtime application self-protection (RASP) platform that, […]
Cisco AppDynamics Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of 1,150 large enterprise IT professionals from the AppDynamics unit of Cisco suggested application security progress is being made slowly and steadily as organizations continue to embrace DevSecOps best practices. The survey finds that while more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) believe that DevSecOps is essential for organizations to effectively protect against a […]
Software Supply Chain Security Debt is Increasing: Here’s How To Pay It Off
Last year, the world woke up to the software supply chain dilemma. We saw a spike in attacks as hackers sought to exploit known and unknown vulnerabilities within dependencies. There is also the chance of typosquatting, and malicious code commits to consider. Such supply chain attacks have increased by a shocking 742% over the past […]
Dynatrace Survey Surfaces State of DevOps in the Enterprise
A global survey of 1,300 CIOs and DevOps managers working for organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds more than three-quarters of respondents work for organizations (78%) that deploy software updates into production every 12 hours or less, with more than half (54%) say they do so at least once every two hours. […]
A DevSecOps Process for Node.js Projects
Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server connection and is often used for real-time applications such as chat, social applications, or news feeds. DevSecOps is a way for development, security, and operations teams to work together […]