Rezilion Updates Open Source MI-X Tool to Better Secure App Development
Rezilion has updated its open source MI-X vulnerability discovery tool to include mitigation and remediation recommendations. In addition, the tool can now produce machine-readable output in either a JSON or CSV format. Finally, the company added Windows support for Heartbleed and SpookySSL vulnerabilities in Windows environments. MI-X makes it possible to use a command line […]
ActiveState Makes All Tiers of Curated Artifact Repository Service Free
ActiveState today announced it is making all tiers of its ActiveState Artifact Repository service available for free for a limited time. The move aims to enable organizations to better secure open source software components incorporated within applications. Loreli Cadapan, vice president of product for ActiveState, said the ActiveState Artifact Repository exposes a set of curated […]
Securing Open Source Components in a World of Mixed Committer Motivations
Our world runs on software that contains open source components. This places an increased burden on developers, as the primary consumers and deployers of those components, to use code that is fully up-to-date and secure. The vast majority of open source committers with write access to project repositories remain focused on maintaining and making positive […]
Palo Alto Networks Buys Cider Security to Lock Down Pipelines
Palo Alto Networks this week extended its efforts to secure application environments by agreeing to acquire Cider Security, a provider of a platform for securing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, for approximately $195 million in cash. The acquisition of Cider Security, scheduled to close this quarter, will extend the reach of the company’s Prisma Cloud […]
JFrog Gives Pyrsia to CD Foundation to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, JFrog announced it contributed the Pyrsia project, which uses blockchain technologies to secure software packages, to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations at JFrog and governing board member for the CD Foundation, said the goal is to increase the […]
Sonatype Report Surfaces Scope of Known Vulnerability Challenge
Sonatype this week published a State of the Software Supply Chain Report that found a 633% year-over-year increase in malicious attacks aimed at open source software residing in public repositories. In addition, Sonatype launched a Sonatype Safety Rating system that employs machine learning algorithms and other metrics to identify the most secure open source components […]
Making SBOMs Actionable
A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a list of all the software components found in a given codebase or used in a given software build. Great. So, now what? Why do we even care about SBOMs? Those are great questions—because in and of itself, the SBOM doesn’t really do anything; it is simply a […]
JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains
JFrog today added a JFrog Advanced Security module to its Artifactory repository that enables DevOps teams to scan both binaries and source code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations for JFrog, said that approach will enable DevOps team to ensure applications are secure before they are deployed in a production […]
Google Looks to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, Google today launched a managed Software Delivery Shield (SDS) service to enable DevOps team to store, manage and secure the build artifacts in Artifact Registry. At its core, SDS is based on a trust-based policy engine to establish, maintain and verify a chain of trust across the software […]
GitLab Allies With Google to Improve Developer Productivity
GitLab Inc., in collaboration with Google, today launched an open source Cloud Seed tool that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to consume Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. The Cloud Seed tool, announced at the virtual Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, is integrated within the GitLab web UI to make it simpler for developers to […]
Protecting CI/CD Pipelines to Secure the Software Supply Chain
Cloud-native applications have become increasingly complex. Composed of an infrastructure stack of mash-up code, hundreds of open source and commercial components, services and APIs, today’s software supply chain is fraught with security risks. At the same time, the ability to manage existing application requirements while building innovation and taking on new areas of responsibility like […]
Business Leaders Will Trade Speed for Security
A global survey of 600 C-level executives conducted by CloudBees found that when it comes to building software, more than three-quarters of respondents said it is more important to be secure and compliant than fast and compliant. As a result, more than three-quarters (77%) also noted their organization is implementing a shift left strategy for […]
GitBOM Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components
An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software engineer for Microsoft, told conference attendees via a video link that the GitBOM tool, based on a compact Artifact Dependency Graph (ADG) technology, […]
DevOps World 2022: Using SBOMs to Secure the Software Supply Chain
As supply chain attacks become increasingly prevalent, visibility is emerging as a necessity in cybersecurity. One way to improve visibility and secure your software supply chain is with a software bill of materials (SBOM). An SBOM is a list of all the components within a codebase. By providing insight into open source and third-party components, […]
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 […]
GitHub Brings 2FA to JavaScript Package Manager
GitHub has made generally available a two-factor authentication tool for the package manager for JavaScript applications maintained by its NPM, Inc. arm. In addition, all npm packages have been re-signed and there is now an npm command line interface (CLI) command to audit package integrity. Finally, GitHub has added the ability to connect GitHub and […]
CREST Defines Quality Verification Standard for AppSec Testing
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, CREST today shared a quality assurance verification standard to improve application security testing. The standard is based on the open source framework defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Tom Brennan, executive director for Americas at CREST, said the OWASP Verification Standard (OVS) measures an organization’s […]
SBOMs 101: What You Need to Know
Recent security incidents have the industry buzzing about the lack of knowledge about code dependencies, attacks on the software supply chain, software bills of materials (SBOM), digital signatures, provenance, attestation and the like. The fact is, every time a new vulnerability appears a lot of time and effort is required to detect not just when, […]
To Prevent Supply Chain Attacks, Build Secure Code
More than a year after the massive SolarWinds cyberattack, targeted companies continue to feel its ramifications in both reputation and financial cost. Moreover, the global software supply chain remains vulnerable to severe attacks, whether from a hostile nation-state like Russia–now increasingly in the cybersecurity spotlight due to fears of retaliation due to U.S. sanctions–or from […]
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Raft of Application Security Issues
A global survey from ReversingLabs found 87% of respondents agreed that software tampering has become a more frequently-used cybersecurity attack, but only 37% said they have any means to detect it. The survey, which polled 300 IT and security professionals, was conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of ReversingLabs, a provider of a platform for […]
The Risks of Shadow Code
As the economy struggles to recover after the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned a thing or two about supply chains—and what happens when they break down. But many people do not realize that modern websites also have digital supply chains, third-party ones that can be compromised in myriad ways. […]
Blast Radius of GitHub Breach Major Security Concern
The extent to which software supply chains may be compromised in the wake of a security breach disclosed by GitHub may include thousands of organizations. GitHub has revealed that unauthorized parties compromised OAuth user tokens maintained by Heroku, an arm of Salesforce that provides a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, and Travis CI, a provider of a […]