5 myths about putting security into CI/CD pipelines

Source:-https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com There’s a lot of focus these days on DevSecOps and putting security testing into continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines. It’s a fantastic trend and it’s something we’ve been talking about for some time. It helps get security testing coverage applied to software builds, provides early feedback to development teams and gets security woven into the fabric of the development process. But myths have developed around this practice, and it’s important to be realistic about what to

GitHub’s code vulnerability scanning tool now generally available

Source:-https://itbrief.com.au GitHub has recently rolled out code scanning to help developers detect and prevent vulnerabilities from popping up in their open source and enterprise code. Code scanning, which was released from beta to general availability in early October, aims to automate security directly into the developer workflow, furthering ‘security by design’ approach to applications and coding. GitHub adds that more than half of breaches are caused by vulnerabilities in application code – and many of these vulnerabilities are recurring patterns.