Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment to bringing products to market or as an afterthought. This leads to increased costs and possible gaps in the attack surfaces of new platforms. While many organizations are turning to […]
Accelerate Your SDLC With DevSecOps
DevOps has been the answer to rising software development complexity, but the granularity and multiplicity of actors, technologies and environments brings added security requirements. Moving to DevSecOps will not only help with these requirements but also accelerate the software development life cycle (SDLC). As development projects mature, more developers get involved, the code base grows […]
12 Ways to Bake Security Into a DevOps Transformation
Security has become an integral part of any DevOps transformation. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56% in the automation tool category. Security not only protects the business and its customers, but it enables companies to enforce internal and external policies. While considering how to […]
WhiteSource Tool Automatically Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource today announced that it has developed the first-ever tool that automatically remediates vulnerabilities discovered in custom code. Rami Sass, WhiteSource CEO, said WhiteSource Cure surfaces recommendations for fixing security vulnerabilities in code that developers can then apply with a click of a button. WhiteSource has a long history of providing tools that discover vulnerabilities […]
JFrog, Vdoo Securing SecOps
Earlier this summer, JFrog acquired Vdoo to deliver end-to-end continuous security from development to device—is this what DevSecOps looks like? JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Hami and Natenel Davidi, CEO of Vdoo, speak with Alan Shimel about what the acquisition means and how this will change the way organizations approach DevSecOps. The video is below, followed […]
Redefining Continuous Security for DevSecOps
In the mobile app development world, security often takes a backseat to developing features and delivering the app. In fact, the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index found that 45% of organizations sacrificed mobile security in order to “get the job done.” It really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Certainly, it seems counterintuitive that mobile app […]
CloudTruth Acquires Tuono to Advance Configuration Management
CloudTruth, a provider of a unified configuration management platform, today revealed it has acquired Tuono, a provider of a cloud secrets management platform, as part of an effort to make it simpler to secure infrastructure provisioned using code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Greg Arnette, CloudTruth CEO, said misconfigurations are rife across cloud […]
Aqua Security Acquires tfsec to Advance DevSecOps
Aqua Security today announced it has acquired tfsec, an open source project that provides a static analysis scanner for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) that is designed to be integrated within a DevOps workflow. Amer Jerbi, Aqua Security CTO, said tfsec extends the security platform the company already provides in a way that advances adoption of DevSecOps best […]
8 Security Considerations for CI/CD
In the software development enterprise, CI/CD refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. CI/CD enables organizations to bridge the gap between development, operation activities and teams by the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications. How do you maintain quality and security with frequent deployments? […]
Fugue Aims to Simplify Securing Infrastructure-as-Code
Fugue today unveiled a 1.0 release for Regula, an open source policy engine for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security that comes with prebuilt libraries for implementing hundreds of policies that validate configurations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud services. Regula is based on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the […]
JFrog Acquires Vdoo to Advance DevSecOps
JFrog today announced it has agreed to acquire Vdoo for $300 million in cash to gain a set of analytics tools that discover vulnerabilities in application binaries. Vdoo’s scanning tools, infused with machine learning algorithms, will be fully integrated with the JFrog Xray vulnerability detection tools along with the rest of the JFrog continuous integration/continuous […]
TraceAI : Machine Learning Driven App and API Security
API security Modern applications are mobile first and are built around cloud-native distributed microservices architectures. These architectures have become the basic building blocks for complex and reliable distributed web and mobile applications. Many of these distributed APIs expose the business logic directly over the web; hence the attack surface and attack vectors are very different […]
Dynatrace Applies AI to Surface App Vulnerabilities
Dynatrace has enhanced the security module to its observability platform that leverages its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to automatically identify the software libraries and open source packages that represent the greatest security risk. Ajay Gandhi, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the Davis Security Advisor, being added to the Dynatrace Application Security […]
AppSec Marketing in the Age of DevSecOps
A while back, I had a conversation with a friend I went to school with (currently a senior member of the engineering team at a large retail chain) who was tasked with the job of identifying potential application security partners (he addressed vendors as partners, which I personally liked) to collaborate with on various areas […]
Google Proposes SLSA Framework to Secure Software Supply Chains
Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is based on an internal framework, known as binary authorization for Borg, that the company […]
Accurics Aligns DevSecOps Platform With GitLab
Accurics today announced it has integrated its tool for discovering violations of security policies that occur when developers provision infrastructure as code with both the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform and the static application security assessment testing (SAST) tools from GitLab. Om Moolchandani, chief information and security officer (CISO) and CTO for Accurics, […]
Majority of Orgs Lack Visibility Into Container Vulnerabilities
Today’s blend of third-party application dependencies and polyglot software development often makes assessing risk difficult. With many new cloud-native deployment models, it can be tricky to discover potential vulnerabilities. These threats take the form of insecure default settings in Kubernetes, over-permissive states, CVEs that threaten container integrity, and other vulnerable conditions. Plugging gaps throughout the […]
Get the Benefits of Low-Code Without the Risks
Today, more than 300 vendors and various platforms offer different flavors of low-code solutions. However, the majority of these low-code tools are really no-code tools that benefit individuals or groups trying to solve a specific program. The list of benefits of low-code tools in your environment is long and compelling; however, there are security risks […]
Why API Quality Is Top Priority for Developers
It is no secret that web APIs have become increasingly important to the operation of modern businesses. According to RapidAPI’s Developer Survey and Insights report, 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than 2019, with 71% planning to use even more in 2021. We are no longer tied to a small number of monolithic […]
HashiCorp Increases Terraform’s Enterprise Appeal
During the online HashiConf Europe conference today, HashiCorp debuted the general availability of a 1.0 release of HashiCorp Terraform along with updates to HashiCorp Terraform Cloud service. Meghan Liese, senior director of product marketing for HashiCorp, said in both cases HashiCorp is moving to enable organizations to better secure and govern IT infrastructure-as-code provisioned using […]
What Biden’s Cybersecurity EO Means for DevOps Teams
On May 12, 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, also known as the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This EO covers a lot of ground, and like all executive orders, it instructs agencies of the U.S. Federal Government to perform specific actions. What it doesn’t do is appropriate funding or create industry […]
Fixing Risk Sharing With Observability
Incentives are mismatched among SREs, SecOps, and application developers. These mismatches create challenges around how and what information is shared across siloed teams. This asymmetrical information creates a moral hazard where one team can shift deployment risk to another team, with no accountability back to the originating team. Risk shifting results in unstable applications, inefficient […]
GitLab Acquires UnReview to Further AI Ambitions
GitLab announced this week it has acquired UnReview, a provider of a tool that employs machine learning algorithms to identify which expert code reviewers to assign to a project based on both the quality of their previous efforts and current workloads. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said the acquisition of UnReview […]