Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

There is a growing discussion among network engineers, DevOps teams, and security professionals about the security benefits of bastions. Many assume that they are the “old way” of network access and have little relevance in the modern cloud native stack. These speculations are not irrelevant as in recent years, the corporate IT network perimeter as we knew it is diminishing, and the concept has been shifted to data, identity, and compute perimeter.

One of the most critical aspects of managing policy-as-code at scale is ensuring safety when deploying policy changes to production workloads. A misconfiguration or errant rule can lead to consequences such as overly permissive systems, service outages, and other forms of application or platform issues.

Snyk is on the mission to make Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools work for developers throughout the DevOps pipeline. Snyk Code scans in real time with high accuracy — and it does it right from the tools and workflows developers are already using. For example, the IDE plugins for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, and Visual Studio Code make it easy to code, scan and fix even before code hits the version management.

It has been one year since I joined Styra as the first European hire, and what a year it has been! Not only have we significantly grown our customer footprint with enterprises such as Zalando, European Patent Office and Extenda Retail, but the EMEA team has been growing at a rapid pace across engineering, sales and customer success and open source! I thought I’d share some takeaways on the industry / market from my interactions with customers and the community.

In April 2021, I discovered an attack vector that could allow a malicious Pull Request to a Github repository to gain access to our production environment. Open source companies like us, or anyone else who accepts external contributions, are especially vulnerable to this. For the eager, the attack works by pivoting from a Kubernetes worker pod to the node itself, and from there exfiltrating credentials from the CI/CD system.