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.
With over 300 vendors exhibiting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 (which is the long and official conference name), there was no shortage of early-stage vendors (230 at the silver and startup sponsor level) to visit for the 7000 attendees. Observability and security solutions were popular for the early-stage exhibitors.
Rapid digitalization and increasing remote business operations place a significant burden on developers, who are continuously pressured to push out software faster. As a result, CI/CD security risks being overlooked, although it is an essential part of modern software development practice. While it accelerates product releases, CI/CD is vulnerable to cybersecurity issues such as corrupted code, security misconfiguration, and mismanagement of secrets.
With policy as code, policies can be managed and automated using code written in a high-level language. It is a programmatic method of uniformly defining and enforcing policies throughout cloud-native applications and their infrastructure.
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.
