Whether you’re just starting to understand basic Rego language concepts or want to brush up on structuring policy-as-code rules, Styra Academy’s “OPA Policy Authoring” course lays out the fundamentals you need to know to get started. Before we dive in, let’s get a better understanding of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and some common use cases. OPA is an open source, general purpose policy engine for cloud native environments.
It’s official! Snyk Container offers support for scanning container images stored in the popular open source container registry, Harbor. Snyk Container helps you find and fix vulnerabilities in your container images, and now it integrates with Harbor as a container registry, enabling you to import your projects and monitor your containers for vulnerabilities. Snyk tests the projects you’ve imported for any known security vulnerabilities found, testing at a frequency you control.
We’re excited to share that you can now scan container images stored in Red Hat’s Quay container registry and their hosted Quay.io service with Snyk Container. Snyk Container helps you find and fix vulnerabilities in your container images and integrates with Quay as a container registry to enable you to import your projects and monitor your containers for vulnerabilities, as is fully described in our Snyk Container documentation.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. A supply chain infection that could have had far reaching impact had it filtered to deployed builds. This time, instead of package dependency infection, they went for the core….
Fixing security findings in your code can be hard. Sometimes you need help from other developers who have solved these problems before. Veracode provides one-on-one time with ex-developers who can coach you through different approaches to address security findings. But sometimes, you don’t really want advice. Instead, you need a boost to help you get through the day of reducing risk in your software.
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition, and myth frame our response.” – Author Arthur M. Schlesinger Urban myths rely on their communities of origin to thrive and survive.
The latest Honeywell USB Threat Report 2020 indicates that the number of threats specifically targeting Operational Technology systems has nearly doubled from 16% to 28%, while the number of threats capable of disrupting those systems rose from 26% to 59% over the same period. Let’s face it. Critical infrastructure operators in manufacturing, aerospace, energy, shipping, chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, water and wastewater, and building automation are heavily relying on USB devices.
CISA, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has told federal agencies that they have until 12:00pm EDT on Monday April 5 to scan their networks for evidence of intrusion by malicious actors, and report back the results. CISA is ordering agencies with on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers to urgently conduct the scans following widespread exploitation of vulnerabilities, in fear that some compromises may have remained undetected.
Microsoft 365, as a service, contains many features that focus on security. Each service uses Azure Active Directory for authentication and authorization to access either the app itself or the content that resides within it. Organization-specific security controls and procedures should augment all out-of-the-box configurations.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about the worst data breaches that happened recently, their impact, and the cost of data breaches for companies. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had an impact on the mental and physical health of employees, but on the digital health of organizations around the world.
