As supply chain attacks continue to dominate headlines, software development teams are beginning to realize that package management can’t be taken lightly — the threats hidden under the hood are real. In this installment of The Source, we want to talk about the practices and tools that developers need to adopt in order to protect against supply chain attacks.
President Biden’s cybersecurity executive order from last month should cause little surprise for anyone following news headlines over the past year. The order is the U.S. Federal Government’s important response to a long list of incidents, starting with the SolarWinds attack and ending with a recent ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline —- the largest known attack against a US energy firm.
We’re pleased to announce our new extension for Visual Studio, making it easier for developers to stay both secure and compliant as they code within their favorite IDE. The extension supports Visual Studio 2015, 2017, and 2019. Snyk’s new free extension for Visual Studio enables developers to easily find and fix both known vulnerabilities and license issues in their open source dependencies, helping them address security early on and ship secure code faster.
DockerCon 2021 brought containerization experts together to discuss all things Docker, from building containerized applications and running container images to improving container security. In this post, we’ll recap a live panel discussing how container security fits into the new cloud native era, how Red Ventures scaled container security scanning with Snyk, and ways to make vulnerability remediation easier.
Empowering developers to build securely has always been Snyk’s mission. We enable you to find and fix security vulnerabilities in your code and open source dependencies, as well as enable development teams to easily integrate security testing as part of their automated delivery pipelines. Snyk also provides native integrations with leading CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, TeamCity, and CircleCI. To this end, we are happy to announce Snyk’s latest integration with AWS CodePipeline.
