Data provenance is a technology field that aims to help businesses increase trust through transparency of data, specifically by tracking the origin, change, and history of data and making it verifiable. Recently, the benefits of data provenance have become more important than ever. With the emergence of generative AI, all it takes are a few button clicks for anyone to create or manipulate data and convince others that fake data is trustworthy and real.

The average cost of invoice fraud to middle-market businesses is almost $280,000 per year. Invoice fraud affects businesses of all sizes, and the levels of fraud have increased in part because it’s not possible to authenticate all invoices that come in manually, with many businesses paying out invoices without authentication if they’re under a certain amount. Today’s information security rules and regulations can’t keep up.

Implementation of a DevSecOps approach is the most impactful key factor in the total cost of a data breach. Successful DevSecOps in a cloud-native world is aided by the right tools. Here are a handful of the most essential cloud security tools and what to look for in them to aid DevSecOps.

Transforming what we learned in 2023 to new learning in 2024 will be an exciting and fulfilling journey. In 2023, we saw a huge surge in the use of AI, including cyberattacks utilizing AI and machine learning. We are also seeing an increased awareness in the need for application security posture management (ASPM). Snyk has also launched its own ASPM solution — Snyk AppRisk — designed to help AppSec teams implement, manage, and scale their security programs.

Editor’s note: Jeremy Garcia, VP of Technical Community and Open Source at Datadog, explains why fostering an organization-wide culture and practice of DevSecOps is essential for deploying resilient, secure applications and services. Over the past decade, DevSecOps has become a popular buzzword in the tech industry.

To share an immutable audit trail, you can do this with a link or a QR code that is automatically created when provenance and authenticity metadata is recorded in your DataTrails account. After you sign in to your DataTrails account on your smartphone, Anyone can use Instaproof or the DataTrails API to verify the authenticity, provenance and audit trails of public images.

By introducing a culture of security into DevOps environments, DevSecOps is designed to address security risks early and consistently. According to the SANS 2023 DevSecOps survey, DevSecOps is a business-critical practice and risk management concern in all organizations focused on software development.

In the fast-paced world of software development, too often security takes a backseat to meeting strict deadlines and delivering new features. Discovering software has accrued substantial security debt that will take months to fix can rip up the schedules of even the best development teams. An AI-powered tool that assists developers in remediating flaws becomes an invaluable asset in this context.

DevSecOps, or secure DevOps, is the mindset in software development that everyone is responsible for application security. By integrating developers with IT operations and focusing everyone on making better security decisions, development teams can deliver safer software with greater speed and efficiency. In practice, DevSecOps can add some friction and hinder the development process.

DevSecOps, also known as secure DevOps, represents a mindset in software development that holds everyone accountable for application security. By fostering collaboration between developers and IT operations and directing collective efforts towards better security decision-making, development teams can deliver safer software with greater speed and efficiency. Despite its merits, implementing DevSecOps can introduce friction into the development process.