Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

September 2022

Choosing the best Node.js Docker image

Choosing a Node.js Docker image may seem like a small thing, but image sizes and potential vulnerabilities can have dramatic effects on your CI/CD pipeline and security posture. So, how do you choose the best Node.js Docker image? It can be easy to miss the potential risks of using FROM node:latest, or just FROM node(which is an alias for the former). This is even more true if you’re unaware of the overall security risks and sheer file size they introduce to a CI/CD pipeline.

Snyk IaC for Terraform Enterprise: Expanding Snyk compatibility with HashiCorp Terraform

Even the most precise and regimented DevOps teams can be plagued by numerous post-deployment security issues, causing potentially damaging production delays and engineering rework. Building on Snyk’s successful acceleration of DevSecOps, Snyk IaC empowers developers to treat Terraform like any other form of code and proactively test IaC early as well as continuously monitor infrastructure post-deployment.

Introducing the new Snyk UI

Starting October 12th, 2022 we’ll be rolling out some exciting new user interface changes for the Snyk application, at app.snyk.io. These changes make use of the Snyk design system by incorporating standardized UI components, an updated color palette, and other elements to help you get even more from Snyk. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the most important changes.

Introduction to OWASP's Vulnerable Node.js Apps: Part 1 | Snyk

Introduction to OWASP's Vulnerable Node.js Apps During this livestream we give an introduction to a vulnerable Node.js application created by the OWASP organization. We also show how some of the OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications, and also how to mitigate these concerns. Didn't catch the live stream? Ask all of your Snyk questions and we’ll do our very best to answer them in the comment section.

Stranger Danger: Your Java Attack Surface Just Got Bigger

Building Java applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome, you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.

Supply chain security and Executive Order M-21-30

On September 14, the White House released Executive Order M-21-30, emphasizing and reminding us that there are NIST guidelines for securing any software being sold to the US Government. According to the Executive Order (EO), self-attestation is a requirement for software vendors or agencies and acts as a “conformance statement” outlined by the NIST Guidance.

Explaining the csurf vulnerability: CSRF attacks on all versions

On September 11th, 2022, Snyk published a vulnerability report for the popular CSRF token management csurf npm package. The vulnerability impacts all known versions, which are currently yielding more than 400,000 downloads per week. The vulnerability report is based on the public disclosure by security consultant Adrian Tiron and their write-up on the Fortbridge blog.

Looking back at Black Hat USA 2022

For the past few days, I’ve been getting a lot of messages asking about my experience at this year’s Black Hat USA. So in this post, I’ll be recapping the conference to give you an inside look at what was presented and provide some helpful perspective. Black Hat is one of the largest — and most talked about — cybersecurity conferences. Its inception dates back to 1997.

Stranger Danger: Your Java Attack Surface Just Got Bigger

Building Java applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome, you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.

Meet the Best Hackers: Shuchita Mishra and Parth Shukla | SnykWeek Boston

During SnykWeek Boston, Shuchita Mishra and Parth Shukla were crowned the best hackers by fixing the most vulnerabilities during our fix challenge. Check out our interview with them to learn about the passion for developer security and what they loved most about Snyk.

Cheat sheet: Meeting security compliance standards

Security and compliance has a major role in every organization. Businesses are nothing without the trust and loyalty of their customers, and for many companies — from early-stage startups to multinational corporations — winning that trust starts by demonstrating that you have the correct security controls in place. Internationally-recognized compliance standards, such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2, make up the industry-standard goals that most businesses and organizations pursue.

10 best practices to containerize Node.js web applications with Docker

September 14, 2022: Check out our new and improved cheat sheet for containerizing Node.js web applications with Docker! Are you looking for best practices on how to build Node.js Docker images for your web applications? Then you’ve come to the right place! The following article provides production-grade guidelines for building optimized and secure Node.js Docker images. You’ll find it helpful regardless of the Node.js application you aim to build.

Stranger Danger: Your JavaScript Attack Surface Just Got Bigger

Building JavaScript applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome - you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility has broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.

Announcing the 2022 State of Cloud Security report from Snyk

Cloud computing has created the most profound shift in information technology in recent memory. Leveraging cloud technology, companies can build, deploy, and scale their applications faster than ever. But the adoption of cloud native tools and processes also brings new security challenges. Between complex cloud infrastructure and the expansion of cloud-based services, malicious actors have access to a bigger attack surface than they did even a few years ago.

How Spotify uses Snyk to secure the SDLC

Spotify’s engineering team recently published a blog discussing their use of Snyk to maintain security testing in the SDLC. The following is a recap of that blog written by Engineering Manager, Edina Muminovic. Spotify, a company known for employing thousands of world-class developers, needed to redraw its software development lifecycle, or SDLC.

How Onna Technologies uses Snyk & Sysdig to secure the SDLC while saving time and money

Onna Technologies, a data centralization software company, integrates security across every facet of their development process by using Snyk and Sysdig. We recently sat down with Onna’s Brent Neal (Director of Security), Mike Hoffman (Lead Security Engineer), and Andrew Leeb (Senior Software Engineer) to discuss data protection and compliance, cloud security priorities, and the benefits using Snyk and Sysdig for complete end-to-end container security.

De-risking Code with Snyk and Codecov

Writing riskless code is challenging, and the cost of deploying vulnerable code can be extremely high. But detecting issues before they hit production can reduce costs and user pain. Both Snyk and Codecov work to help developers catch issues in your codebase before they become problems. Join members from Snyk and Codecov going over everything you need to know to understand how to de-risk code.

Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps securely

ConfigMaps is an API object used in Kubernetes to store data in key-value pairs. It’s essentially a dictionary that contains configuration settings. Some details you might expect to find in a ConfigMap include hostnames, public credentials, connection strings, and URLs. A ConfigMap decouples an application’s code from the configurations, making it possible to alter them without impacting the application.

Integrating Snyk Open Source C/C++ security scanning into CI pipelines

Snyk Open Source supports C and C++ scanning for vendored open source dependencies via CLI — and we are happy to share that it is now available via our CI plugins as well. This guide will walk you through integrating C/C++ security scanning within pipelines to get vulnerability information and remediation advice directly to developers. Note that in the scope of this guide, we’ll refer to “C/C++” as just “C++”

How to find and fix XML entity vulnerabilities

XML is a human-readable text format used to transport and store structured data. Tags and data structures are defined by users in self-describing documents that are universally parsable by any XML tool, giving developers a highly configurable mechanism for data representation. To build on XML’s limited base syntax, an author can define the structure and acceptable content of a document’s data using a document type definition (DTD).

Best practices for API gateway security

APIs are a critical component of today’s development landscape because of their importance in microservices. Since modern software is often composed of various microservices, certain functionalities may be beyond the scope of an individual API. With an API gateway, we can aggregate those services to behave as if they were a single API, and return complex responses from disparate microservices through a single call to an API gateway.

Stranger Danger: Your JavaScript Attack Surface Just Got Bigger

Building JavaScript applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome - you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility has broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.

Snyk Security using Language Server Protocol

Snyk provides plugins or extensions for Visual Studio Code, Jetbrains IDEs like IntelliJ, WebStorm, PHPStorm, GoLand, and Visual Studio. But have you ever wanted to integrate Snyk in your daily work when your favorite editor or IDE is Vim, Emacs, Sublime, or Eclipse? This is going to be possible soon, as we’ve published our Eclipse plugin, including the new Snyk Language Server Protocol.

Response to the Enduring Security Framework (ESF) Guide for Developers

At Snyk we invented developer-first security. We believe involving developers in the practice of security is key to building and running modern applications. This is exactly why the recent publication, Recommended Practices Guide for Developers by the The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) piqued our interest.

The npm faker package and the unexpected demise of open source libraries

Where do open source dependencies go to die, and why do they come to an end? What happened to the npm faker module? Can it happen again? Join me to learn how open source software libraries rise to glory and how they reach their end of life. I’ll also include some takeaways for developers and ops engineers.