A Modern Shift-Left Security Approach

Source:-https://www.forbes.com The concept of shifting security left is not new, but historically this has meant little more than inserting security processes in the middle of development and slowing everything down. In this article, I’ll describe older shift-left methods that have not worked — and how a modern approach to shifting left can have a high impact on risk reduction and create a healthy balance of freedom and responsibility for cloud-native development teams. I believe CISOs have no choice but to

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Google Cloud Nabs Former Cisco Security Leader Jeff Reed

Source:-https://www.crn.com Google has a new vice president of product for its Anthos business: Jeff Reed. Reed, a tech executive with nearly two decades of experience, most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of cloud and network security for tech giant Cisco’s Security Business and before that, senior vice president of product for Cisco Security. Google in 2019 released Anthos, its hybrid cloud platform and rebrand of the Google Cloud Services platform, with a new emphasis on deploying

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HOW TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS?

Source:-https://www.analyticsinsight.net With increasing move to cloud infrastructures, we have seen rapid growth of cloud-native applications. These applications are a collection of small, faster, and integrated services. By creating and operating cloud-native applications, businesses bring new ideas to market faster and respond instantly to customer demands. These applications typically empower enterprises to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic cloud environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Serverless architectures, containers, Kubernetes, and others are some cloud-native applications. Though these

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Docker malware is now common, so devs need to take Docker security seriously

Source:-https://www.zdnet.com Towards the end of 2017, there was a major shift in the malware scene. As cloud-based technologies became more popular, cybercrime gangs also began targeting Docker and Kubernetes systems. SECURITY Cyber security 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government Cyber security 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read More Most of

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Xebia Academy Global ties up with DevOps Institute

Source:-indiaeducationdiary.in Xebia Academy Global, education Business Unit of Xebia has entered into a strategic partnership with DevOps Institute to bolster the adoption of DevOps across the globe for digital learning and upskilling of the workforce. The collaboration will make available the most relevant learning materials and well-recognized certifications in the market to support individual aspirations and client needs. Keeping up with the shifting market demand, the collaboration will foster students, individuals as well as corporate groups to upskill and train

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Wind River unveils CI/CD model for Linux

Source:-newelectronics.co.uk Wind River has unveiled a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) model for Wind River Linux customers. By following a CI/CD process customers will have access to new releases every few weeks. This will allow teams to begin to build their own continuous integration and delivery systems for their customers, get a head start on building new platforms sooner, and enjoy similar benefits of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) management, technical support, and quality typically found in annual and

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Google Cloud can store all your passwords

Source:-itproportal.com Google wants to help secure your passwords, and its new tool makes it simple. Called Secret Manager, this Google Cloud service helps users store passwords, certificates and API keys. It is designed to be a centralised solution, a unified place for the safekeeping of secrets. “Many applications require credentials to connect to a database, API keys to invoke a service, or certificates for authentication,” said Google developer advocate Seth Vargo and product manager Matt Driscoll. “Managing and securing access

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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How The Cloud Transformed Our Systems—And My Career

Source:-forbes.comWith over 10 years experience using the cloud to deliver fundamental change and business value, I’m surprised that so many organizations are still just using the cloud as a place to park their virtual machines (VMs), rather than as a way to improve their applications and drive digital transformation. I was first exposed to the transformational potential of the cloud in 2009, as CIO of Comic Relief, a leading not-for-profit that found itself with an interesting conundrum; the telethons that

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Microsoft buys Semmle in a bid to bulk out GitHub security

Source:-devclass.com Microsoft has boosted its security play via GitHub by buying code analysis firm Semmle in a pairing the firms hope will make hunting and fixing vulnerabilities as easy as a pull request. Semmle has two main products, QL,  a code analysis engine for product security teams to quickly find zero-days and variants of critical vulnerabilities, and LGTM aimed at development teams to identify vulnerabilities before they can creep into production. In a blog post, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman explained, “Semmle’s

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Cloud (In)security: Protecting Your Business Across Multiple Platforms

Source:- machtribune.com Global Static Code Analysis Software Market 2019 Growth Landscape PyCharm, ReSharper, Coverity, ReSharper C++, SonarQube Static Code Analysis Software Market Global Trends, Market Share, Industry Size, Growth, Opportunities, and Market Forecast 2019-2024, a New Addition to the huge research repertoire of Fior Markets offers insights on the Static Code Analysis Software Market for different segments and companies involved worldwide over the forecast period 2019-2024 especially in Americas (United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil), APAC (China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, India, Australia), Europe (Germany,

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