January 9, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

The Year Ahead for Kubernetes and Container Security

Source:-securityboulevard.com A new study out conducted among the DevSecOps community shows that Kubernetes use is rapidly growing within the enterprise, and not just within test or development environments. As organizations try to catch their breath with the rapid adoption rate, the security community is scrambling to adapt to containers and cloud native architectures as the new normal. The Alcide Kubernetes survey queried 200 professionals from development, operations, security, and cloud architect teams. It found that 45% of companies are now

January 3, 2020 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Why securing APIs every step of the way is now vital

Source:-itproportal.com The majority of API vulnerabilities are introduced at development stage. The explosion of APIs in recent years shows no sign of slowing down, becoming the glue that increasingly connects so many services in a world focused on the programmable web, mobile apps, containers, the cloud, and microservices. Software is being broken into a much larger number of smaller pieces: it took us 40 years for the first 500 million apps to be developed – the next 500 million will

December 18, 2019 bestdevops DevSecOps Leave a comment

Synack: DevSecOps Being Accelerated by Cultural Shifts

Source:-devops.com The 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report from cybersecurity testing platform vendor Synack claims that some of the world’s largest organizations are encountering a significant cultural shift within their development teams, and that bodes well for those seeking to build DevSecOps teams. For the report, Synack surveyed leaders from more than 300 organizations representing a number of industries and verticals, including technology, government, health care, information technology and financial services. Recent Posts By Frank Ohlhorst DevSecOps Requires

December 12, 2019 bestdevops IT trends Leave a comment

5 Ways To Secure Your Business In A Multi-Cloud World

Source:-forbes.com Modern software increasingly lives online, using application programming interfaces, or APIs, to ingest and expose data, stay updated, and generally work more effectively. APIs are great business accelerators with thousands of uses, from drawing on a file of recipes for a grocery website, to attaching a secure payment system to an online retailer, to adding features to existing IT infrastructure. As they grow in popularity, however, they also move into the crosshairs of bad actors, becoming a new target

November 28, 2019 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

Predictions 2020: Cloud computing sees new alliances and new security concerns

Source:-zdnet.com In 2020, the cloud computing market will sees interesting new alliances and face new security concerns. Read Forrester’s 2020 cloud predictions to find out more. Last year, Forrester predicted that enterprises would start modernizing core business apps with cloud computing in 2019, and that transformation has indeed taken off. 2019 also brought major acquisitions (IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat, and VMware reabsorbed Pivotal) and surprising new alliances (Oracle partnered with Microsoft on high-speed links between Oracle Cloud

November 8, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

What Happens When You Inject Security into DevOps: DevSecOps

Source:-informationweek.com If you think that the security reviews that your DevOps team conducts are enough, give it another thought. Over these past few years, I’ve had the chance to work very closely with some of the most talented development teams. Even today, I’m still involved with DevOps and helping design core applications that’ll impact users, businesses, and entire methods of technology and even data center management. In working with Agile coaches and Scrum masters, I learned quickly that DevOps is

October 18, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How DevOps security tools support modern applications

Source:- securityboulevard.com Modern application development organizations must integrate and automate DevOps security tools such as IAST into CI/CD pipelines to speed developers. Software developers working on modern applications have embraced agile development, DevOps security tools, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) approaches. With consumers and enterprises increasingly relying on web and mobile apps for their software needs, developers have had to move away from monolithic on-premises applications that rely on a “big bang” launch of presentation, business logic, and data tier

October 17, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Security Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Source:- securityboulevard.com DevOps is helping organizations develop software faster. DevOps is a software development approach that utilizes the Agile methodology to integrate and streamline the development and operations process. The result is a faster and more efficient development process. The downside of DevOps is that the fast pace it promotes doesn’t cover security. The solution is to include security protocols and practices across the DevOps pipeline. If you’re interested in adopting the DevOps approach, read on to learn about the challenges

October 3, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Success in DevOps adoption can boost security, research finds

Source:-ciodive.comPuppet research found companies that integrate security into the software development lifecycle are “twice as confident in their security posture.” The DevOps lifecycle is rife with tension. Development, operations and security have missions and the key is aligning all those causes. Developers cringe when security enters the room because of the limits that come with security controls. But security isn’t on duty to take the life out of the party; its goal is to make sure no one spikes the punch. So

September 30, 2019 bestdevops Continuous Delivery Leave a comment

Serverless Security Threats Loom as Enterprises Go Cloud Native

Source:-sdxcentral.com Enterprises are rapidly adopting serverless computing because of improved security as well as the need for speed and greater operational efficiency. However, as they increase their usage of serverless functions, companies must understand how this affects their threat landscape — and how to implement security measures such as runtime controls and API discovery and usage inspection, according to a new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study that looks at how organizations are securing cloud-native applications. Application security company Data Theorem commissioned the study, Security for DevOps –

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