Testing practices have been shifting left in the software development process due to the growing challenge of developing and delivering high-quality, secure software at today’s competitive pace. Agile methodologies and the DevOps approach were created to address these needs. In this post, we’ll map out the basics of shift-left practices in the DevOps pipeline and discuss how to shift left your open source security and compliance testing. Contents hide 1 What does shift left mean?

The ongoing growth in the adoption of cloud services poses escalating opportunities and risks in equal measure. The increased capacity and scalability of cloud environment lends itself to an accelerated pace and higher volume of software and application development than ever before. This trend brings into play a huge increase in the number of software components and dependencies that developers use in their code bases.

We’re proud to announce that Bitbucket Cloud users can now unlock the full power of Mend for automatic detection and remediation of open source risk. With the release of our new Bitbucket Cloud integration in the Atlassian Marketplace, Mend now makes it possible for developers to find and eliminate vulnerabilities, all while staying in their Bitbucket Cloud repositories.

This is the fifth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. While IT and security professionals all generally agree that cyberattacks are on the rise, there remains a great deal of disparity in how they choose to prepare for those attacks.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) has been a central part of application security efforts for more than 15 years. Forrester’s State Of Application Security Report, 2022 found that lacking application security remains a leading cause of external security breaches, so it’s safe to say that SAST will be in use for the foreseeable future. Contents hide 1 What Is SAST? 2 Why do we need SAST? 3 What problems does SAST address? 4 How does SAST work?

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) has been a central part of application security efforts for more than 15 years. Forrester’s State Of Application Security Report, 2022 found that lacking application security remains a leading cause of external security breaches, so it’s safe to say that SAST will be in use for the foreseeable future.

The modern approach to application security includes strategies and technologies that help development teams prioritize the vulnerabilities they should address and fix. By giving these teams tools that efficiently identify security vulnerabilities that present the biggest risk, they can address them as quickly as possible. Ori Bach, EVP of Product at Mend, and Harry Mower, Director, AWS CodeSuite, got together for a fireside chat to discuss how to implement these strategies.

Here at Mend, we work with businesses of different sizes and maturity across a wide variety of industry sectors, such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, construction, media, software, and more. One thing they have in common is that they are all involved in software development in one form or another. They use code and software components and dependencies within a DevOps environment to create both internal and customer-facing applications.

DevSecOps has become one of the hottest buzzwords in the DevOps ecosystem over the past few years. In the abstract, it’s easy to understand what DevSecOps means and why people care about it: it’s a strategy that extends DevOps efficiencies to software security. But when you sit down and actually start implementing DevSecOps, things can get trickier. There is no switch you can flip to go from DevOps to DevSecOps. Implementation requires a set of tools and practices.

This is the fourth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. With new headlines every day about organizations that have been targeted by cyberattackers, it’s not surprising that 75 percent of organizations assume they’re likely to have a breach in the next three years.

The increased use of open-source software components in application development exposes companies to security vulnerabilities and liability related to software licensing. To mitigate these risks, software development organizations are turning to Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, which identify security and license compliance issues in code.