September 27, 2019 bestdevops Microservices Leave a comment

Portshift Moves to Secure Microservices

Source:-containerjournal.com Portshift this week added a Policy Advisor control interface that enables organizations to identify the most efficient and secure connections that can be made between microservices based on containers. Zohar Kaufman, vice president of research and development for Portshift, says the extension to a platform that enables organizations to create a zero-trust application environment by assigning identities to applications also makes the Portshift Cloud Workload Protection Platform applicable to emerging cloud-native applications. Any communication between microservices that is not specifically allowed

May 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevSecOps: Paradigm shifts are messy, but someone’s got to take the lead

Source:- infoworld.com A perfect storm of factors brewing in the dev, ops, and security worlds have created a window of opportunity to embed security into the application delivery lifecycle, in a needle-moving kind of way. However, security teams need to be the ones driving the DevSecOps charge or that needle will barely wobble. Given how many security practitioners spend their days putting out fires, adding “DevSecOps evangelist” to their job description is more likely to elicit groans than spur the desire

April 8, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Resources for DevOps Pros to Learn About Security

Source:- threatstack.com These days, security should be part of everyone’s job. This is especially true for DevOps teams, which are responsible for developing, delivering, and maintaining critical applications for many organizations, and must therefore prioritize security as part of their role. But the world of security can seem like a bit of a mystery until you’ve been exposed to it. If you or someone on your team is looking to learn more about what it takes to run a secure

March 31, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process Leave a comment

IT ops pros adopt iterative approach to security in DevOps

Source:- searchitoperations.techtarget.com Baby steps that add security in DevOps environments are better than none at all, according to experienced IT ops practitioners. Most organizations have dedicated IT security departments or personnel, but lack of a mature DevSecOps collaboration means IT ops ends up on the front lines to identify vulnerabilities and anomalies in production applications. Like it or not, security in DevOps environments is often left up to them. Attacks are often unmasked because they show up as a problem

March 21, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Secure DevOps: A simple plan to deliver business value

Source:- techbeacon.com DevOps—the movement to break down silos, deliver software faster, and overall create a better experience for customers—is spreading from startups and experimenters to the enterprise. Many security team leads would cringe at the idea of faster development cycles in an IT department that has even less time and patience for standard security checks, but James Wickett, a senior DevOps engineer, sees not just opportunity, but necessity. “Traditional information security is going to die if we don’t respond to