What a Dev Wants: Security Training for Today’s Developer Workforce
It’s no secret that developing a strong security culture is a critical component of the production of secure products, yet organizations often overlook the fact that their security training programs set the foundation on which this culture is built. When it comes to developer training, our goal should be to align the intrinsic motivations of […]
Survey Surfaces Massive Number of Application Vulnerabilities
A survey of 16,510 IT and IT security practitioners published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for automating the remediation of software vulnerabilities, found nearly half of respondents (47%) worked for organizations that have a backlog of vulnerable applications. More than half (66%) said their backlog consisted of more than 100,000 vulnerabilities and […]
DevOps World 2022: Developer and Security Links Protect Your Supply Chain
Ever since the SolarWinds attack back in December 2020, software supply chain attacks have been top-of-mind for any company that builds software. The idea of endangering not just your organization by being attacked but also your customers really sharpens your focus. Another complicating factor is that applications use a combination of open software components and […]
Federal Agencies Share DevSecOps Guidelines
The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have published a set of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring Security Framework (ESF). Developed by a public-private cross-sector working group led by NSA and CISA, the ESF framework was created in the wake […]
Supply Chain Security: Has the Next SolarWinds Already Happened?
More than two years after the now-infamous hack of the firm SolarWinds, the incident is very much in the foreground of conversations about cybersecurity defense, threat detection and incident response. As evidence of that: The SolarWinds incident was the subject of five separate talks and panels at the recent RSA conference in San Francisco. Dozens […]
The Secret to Secrets Management: Reduce Source Code Vulnerabilities
We are in the cyberattack age. From Microsoft to Crypto.com, no company is completely safe from malicious attackers, and it seems as if a new major cyberattack is announced weekly, if not more frequently. As more companies not only go digital but expand their digital offerings and initiatives, there are more opportunities for cyberattackers. Security […]
GitLab Research Shows Security Concerns in DevOps Teams
The threat of breaches is top-of-mind for many DevOps teams, and while security continues to shift left it appears to be a driving force for many decision-makers when it comes to choosing a DevOps platform or other technologies. These were among the results of a GitLabs survey that also found getting security right is the number […]
Everything is DevOps
It’s funny how we in IT tend to be absolutists, shoving everything into the current bucket. XML was going to eliminate programming—even though it wasn’t even particularly good at data representation. NoCode was going to eliminate programming (yeah, that’s a theme, I’ll skip the other 50 or so ‘going to end programming’ cycles we’ve been […]
Postman Survey: Increased Usage of APIs Results in More Security Incidents
A survey of more than 37,000 developers and application programming interface (API) professionals published this week by Postman, a provider of a platform for developing and managing APIs, suggests that as more APIs are deployed, more organizations are seeing a rise in cybersecurity incidents. The survey finds more than half of respondents (51%) reporting that […]
Survey Shows Steady DevSecOps Progress
A survey of 200 DevOps and IT/information security professionals published this week by Mezmo, a provider of an observability platform, conducted in collaboration with the market research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), finds only 22% report their organization has a formal DevSecOps strategy to integrates security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Among those […]
Why DevOps Teams Need Security Engineers
In the episode of View with Vizard, Mike Vizard sits down with Om Vyas, chief product officer for oak9, as he explains why security engineers need to become part of every DevOps team. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Vizard: Hey, guys. Thanks for the throw. We’re here with Om […]
Contrast Security Adds API Support to Security Platform
Contrast Security has fully extended its vulnerability scanning and runtime application self-protection (RASP) platform to now include application programming interfaces (APIs). Company CTO Jeff Williams said the Contrast Secure Code Platform embeds agents directly into code to detect vulnerabilities using a combination of integrated static and dynamic application security testing tools. That approach makes it […]
Avoiding Security Review Delays
In the summer of 2021, I had lunch with a senior security developer at one of Seattle’s leading tech firms. Even though we were relaxed in the sunny and cool afternoon of the Pacific Northwest, there was no doubt my friend was frustrated. Part of his job was running code through a popular scanning product […]
Putting the Security Into DevSecOps
The non-Newtonian fluid that’s composed of cornstarch and water has been around a long time, but Dr. Seuss’ 1949 book was the impetus for what it’s often called today – Oobleck, from “Bartholomew and the Oobleck.” When not under pressure, Oobleck is a thin liquid; when pressure is applied, its resistance increases to the point […]
The Everything-As-Code Revolution and the OWASP Top 10
After years of stagnation, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 list finally saw some shakeup. Most notably, insecure design debuted on the list as the number four security risk to web applications. “If we genuinely want to ‘move left’ as an industry, it calls for more use of threat modeling, secure design […]
Lock Down Your Toolchain
We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago. Think about it—we can check in a single source file and kick off a chain of events that involves half a dozen or […]
Future of DevOps: Trends to Watch
Technology is transforming every aspect of industry, and digitalization and automation have flourished in the past few years. DevOps has established itself as an indispensable software development methodology for successful digital transformation. According to a recent market survey, the DevOps market will exceed $20 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24.7% from 2019 […]
How DevOps Teams Can Defend Against API Attacks
Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a whopping 600% in 2021—are now poised to become the top attack vector for threat actors, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The […]
What SASE Means for DevOps Teams
You have probably heard the acronym secure access service edge (SASE), and it’s hard to ignore its impact on the technology industry. SASE is a cool new way to implement networking in hybrid environments, and the most important thing about it is that it bakes security into the network fabric. In plain English—when you plug […]
Security Compass Makes Visualizing AppSec Threats Simpler
Security Compass this week updated its threat modeling platform for developers to make it easier to surface application security issues. The latest version of SD Elements 2022 adds support for developer-centric threat modeling diagrams, reusable components, more advanced reporting capabilities and 114 more just-in-time training (JITT) modules. In addition, Security Compass has now integrated its […]
Scribe Security Unveils Pair of Tools to Secure Software Supply Chains
Scribe Security today unveiled a Scribe Integrity tool that scans software artifacts to make sure they comply with IT organizations’ security policies before they are integrated into an application. The Scribe Integrity tool authenticates open source and proprietary source code before it is uploaded into a build. It assumes that all artifacts are “guilty” until […]
Rezilion Launches Vulnerability Prioritization Platform
Rezilion today announced general availability of a platform that enables DevOps teams to better prioritize remediation efforts by identifying which vulnerabilities both run in memory and actually impact a class or function that can be executed. Liran Tancman, Rezilion CEO, said the biggest DevSecOps challenge organizations face today is that the bulk of vulnerabilities that […]
This DevSecOps Thing Is Real After All
Whether you made it to San Francisco, California last month for RSA Conference or not, you don’t want to miss Tuesday’s DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit. On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, we are presenting a virtual broadcast of the sessions from our recent DevOps Connect: DevSecOps event at RSA Conference in June 2022. All of […]