Learn how the whole team at DevSecOps tool Jit is dedicated to cultivating a platform engineering mindset and discipline in the cloud. Our amazing CTO, David Melamed, PhD.‍ How Jit Builds a Platform Engineering Mindset in the Cloud Learn how the whole team at DevSecOps tool Jit is dedicated to cultivating a platform engineering mindset and discipline in the cloud.

"If we foster a dev-sec mindset from the earliest lines of code, we’ll better prepare our developers for emerging threats and risks and make compliance processes a much lighter lift for our organizations."You can learn more from our CISO, Chris Koehnecke. ‍

There is no doubt that Google is one of the most innovative companies. In fact, if you want to find or compare others, you'll likely Google it. From search engines to smartphones, it has shaped our digital lives. And with its cloud solution, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), its impact in the cloud arena is no different. However, no amount of innovation can make GCP attack-proof. The cloud is home to increasingly more threats, and they come with a hefty price tag.

Programs and apps are a manifestation of ideas in a digital format. If you can dream it in other languages, WebAssembly can deliver it to the browser. From games ported from Unity to PDF editing on the web and leveraging interactive data from Jupyter and Rust, WebAssembly’s use cases are countless. WebAssembly (Wasm) is gaining traction to deliver high-performance client-side code that often cannot be created or executed by JavaScript, at least not in a performant way.

We often talk about the disparate experience in the security ecosystem versus the dev-tooling world. Where developer experience has begun taking center stage in the world of dev-first and cloud native, security experience is still quite lacking across the board in our ecosystem. (I would try to coin the term DevSecEx similar to DevSecOps with a focus on DevEx, but it just doesn’t have the same ring.

People, processes, and tooling all impact an organization’s ability to maintain a strong AppSec program. In a recent panel at Black Hat Europe, Snyk spoke with two customers — Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Asda — about the unique challenges they face managing development teams, onboarding new security tools, and building a modern DevSecOps program throughout their organizations.

High-velocity software development today is close to impossible (and most certainly not sustainable) without DevOps. The migration to the public cloud, along with increasing regulatory demands, and other factors made application and code security as vital as DevOps. Thus were born the practices and frameworks of DevSecOps. The value of DevSecOps is evident and clearly understood by technologists.

There is a need for a new approach to AppSec—one that handles business risk without obstructing company growth, eliminates the tradeoff between speed and security, and fulfills the DevSecOps promise. Here are four DevSecOps best practices to help your organization realize this vision with an efficient, effective DevSecOps strategy.

DevSecOps – for many, it feels like a magical black box where code and sensitive digital assets go in one end, and a working piece of software comes out the other. Security practices within the development and operational phases can often get lost. Organizations that haven’t adopted DevSecOps see half of their apps at risk of attacks, while those with a DevSecOps-first approach have only 22% at risk. That’s why the core principles of DevSecOps are important.

In a world where software is produced, distributed, and re-distributed, how do you ensure the software you consume is authentic and safe for your environment? How do you know the software you deployed yesterday is safe today? Most software exploits are discovered after the software has been deployed, which raises the question: It’s not just about getting software updates, as the majority of exploits are distributed as updates. Staying updated isn’t the most secure.