Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We’re honored to share that, for the second consecutive year, Snyk has been named to the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 List, coming in at #39! The full list, unveiled yesterday, is Forbes’ “definitive ranking of the best, brightest, and most valuable private companies in the cloud.” We’re up 47 spots from our ranking last year — a testament to our incredible team, growth, and maturation as a company in 2021 thus far. And it’s only August!

Snyk security policies just got a whole lot more powerful with a new action and two new conditions, helping your development and security teams assess risk and focus resources more efficiently. For developers, the less “noise” the better. Tasked with fixing issues that are simply not important or relevant is a waste of valuable development time and will likely result in creating frustration and mistrust.

Ruby is a well-defined and thought-out language and has been around since the mid-1990s. In 2004, Ruby incorporated RubyGems as its package manager. RubyGems is used to manage libraries and dependencies in a self-contained format known as a gem. The interface for RubyGems is a command line tool that integrates with the Ruby runtime and allows Gemfiles to be added or updated in a project. I looked at three Ruby platforms and found vulnerabilities that were surprising, even to me.

In a previous post, we presented a step-by-step tutorial on how to publish Node.js Docker images to GitHub Packages registry using GitHub Actions. In this post, we’ll focus on publishing the Docker image that we build to the public Docker Hub registry. Why is this useful you might ask? The Docker command line application docker has a default registry setting for docker.io which points to the Docker Hub registry.

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published comprehensive recommendations for strengthening the security of an organization’s Kubernetes system to help companies make their Kubernetes environment more difficult to compromise. This 52-page cybersecurity technical report offers practical guidance for admins to manage Kubernetes securely, focusing on the common three sources for a compromised Kubernetes environment.

DevOps and Agile are popular modern software development methodologies. According to the 14th Annual State of Agile Report, 95% and 76% of the respondents stated that their organizations had adopted Agile and DevOps development methods, respectively. Interestingly, both approaches have the same aim: deliver the end product as efficiently and quickly as possible.

If you’re a Python developer looking to easily secure your applications, you’re in the right place! Snyk helps you secure all the code making up your Python app — your own code, the open source libraries you’re pulling in, your containers, and your infrastructure as code (IaC) — by integrating seamlessly into your existing development workflows.