API security is a growing concern for businesses that offer or consume APIs. APIs, or application programming interfaces, allow different software systems to communicate and exchange data. They allow businesses to build integrations and connect with partners, customers, and other stakeholders. However, as more sensitive data is being shared through APIs, it is essential to ensure that these interfaces are secure and protected from unauthorized access or manipulation.

In any software development cycle, it is best practice to catch issues as early as possible since it both improves security and decreases the workload for both developers and security. In order to do this, CrowdStrike offers solutions for developers at build time that allow them to assess their Docker container images and review summarized report data integrated with their favorite CI/CD tools like Jenkins.

Seeker IAST helps organizations achieve continuous testing without creating friction in DevOps pipelines. In traditional security, developers run tests for code security and operators ensure that firewalls and other protections work in the production environment. Access control and other tasks are handled by security experts and managers. DevSecOps uses version control and CI/CD pipelines to configure and manage security tasks automatically, across all teams, before deployment.

Announced today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CodeCatalyst brings together everything software development teams need to plan, code, build, test and deploy applications on AWS into a streamlined, integrated experience.

To improve the efficiency of releasing working code into a production environment, implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is a great practice. These pipelines automate the process of checking that a code change is ready for release and provides tools to automate the release to a production environment. One popular way to do this is to use your existing version control system.