DevSecOps is an easy term to toss around. But what does it mean, exactly? What actually goes into an effective DevSecOps strategy? And how do cloud and DevOps impact DevSecOps processes? To find out, I participated in a webinar with Merritt Baer, principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, to discuss the best ways to …
Aqua Nautilus researchers have recently discovered that attackers can easily impersonate popular Visual Studio Code extensions and trick unknowing developers into downloading them. In original vulnerability research, we’ve uncovered a new attack method which could act as an entry point for an attack on many …
A standard piece of security advice is to reduce the size of your container images, usually by using statically compiled binaries in a scratch or distroless container. However, that complicates container vulnerability scanning, because it becomes impossible to determine the versions of software installed in a …
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs), now part of the emerging category of Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs), are designed to secure different types of cloud workloads — such as VMs, containers, and serverless functions — deployed in public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. In this …
With the rise in attacks targeting the supply chain of cloud native applications, it’s important to understand how you can prepare for and stifle risks that enter your environments through third-party packages and tools. This post outlines the top software supply chain security best practices that should be included …
Digital leaders must adapt, scale, and fine-tune their operations and the solutions they provide to their customers to keep up with market demands. GitLab provides a complete DevOps platform in a single application to help developers and engineers across all industries to be successful. With many high-profile security …
With the continual leftward shifting movement of traditional DevOps responsibilities, organizations can now detect security issues earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GoCD, or Bamboo, organizations can continually develop, test, and ship applications. As containers …
Steve Giguere is a DevSecOps Architect and Evangelist for Aqua. He spends his days working with organizations adopting cloud native technologies and how they can effectively secure their applications in the (relatively) new world of microservices. The evangelist part of him enjoys educating and learning from other …
The premise of DevSecOps is that in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), each member is responsible for security. This unifies the operations and development teams in terms of security operations. DevSecOps’ goal is to add security to each step of the development process by integrating security controls and …
Many of you may be familiar with the shift left security approach in which security is built in at an early stage of the application development life cycle. It is easier and more effective to do it early, rather than discover security issues later in the game, when applications are already deployed. When issues are …
The DevSecOps Day event during the recent RSA conference gathered IT and security professionals from around the globe. We used that opportunity to ask them how they see the fast-emerging discipline of DevSecOps. Since respondents were those who chose to attend a DevSecOps event, they represent a more advanced segment …