Cloud computing has created the most profound shift in information technology in recent memory. Leveraging cloud technology, companies can build, deploy, and scale their applications faster than ever. But the adoption of cloud native tools and processes also brings new security challenges. Between complex cloud infrastructure and the expansion of cloud-based services, malicious actors have access to a bigger attack surface than they did even a few years ago.
Spotify’s engineering team recently published a blog discussing their use of Snyk to maintain security testing in the SDLC. The following is a recap of that blog written by Engineering Manager, Edina Muminovic. Spotify, a company known for employing thousands of world-class developers, needed to redraw its software development lifecycle, or SDLC.
Technology is always changing and your processes and practices need to keep up with those changes. So while npm is 12 years old, your practices around npm package creation should hopefully be a lot more modern. If you have a feeling they may be a little out of date, though, keep reading.
Onna Technologies, a data centralization software company, integrates security across every facet of their development process by using Snyk and Sysdig. We recently sat down with Onna’s Brent Neal (Director of Security), Mike Hoffman (Lead Security Engineer), and Andrew Leeb (Senior Software Engineer) to discuss data protection and compliance, cloud security priorities, and the benefits using Snyk and Sysdig for complete end-to-end container security.
ConfigMaps is an API object used in Kubernetes to store data in key-value pairs. It’s essentially a dictionary that contains configuration settings. Some details you might expect to find in a ConfigMap include hostnames, public credentials, connection strings, and URLs. A ConfigMap decouples an application’s code from the configurations, making it possible to alter them without impacting the application.
Snyk Open Source supports C and C++ scanning for vendored open source dependencies via CLI — and we are happy to share that it is now available via our CI plugins as well. This guide will walk you through integrating C/C++ security scanning within pipelines to get vulnerability information and remediation advice directly to developers. Note that in the scope of this guide, we’ll refer to “C/C++” as just “C++”
XML is a human-readable text format used to transport and store structured data. Tags and data structures are defined by users in self-describing documents that are universally parsable by any XML tool, giving developers a highly configurable mechanism for data representation. To build on XML’s limited base syntax, an author can define the structure and acceptable content of a document’s data using a document type definition (DTD).
APIs are a critical component of today’s development landscape because of their importance in microservices. Since modern software is often composed of various microservices, certain functionalities may be beyond the scope of an individual API. With an API gateway, we can aggregate those services to behave as if they were a single API, and return complex responses from disparate microservices through a single call to an API gateway.
Snyk provides plugins or extensions for Visual Studio Code, Jetbrains IDEs like IntelliJ, WebStorm, PHPStorm, GoLand, and Visual Studio. But have you ever wanted to integrate Snyk in your daily work when your favorite editor or IDE is Vim, Emacs, Sublime, or Eclipse? This is going to be possible soon, as we’ve published our Eclipse plugin, including the new Snyk Language Server Protocol.
