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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging DevSecOps to quell cyber risks in a teeming threat landscape

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

DevSecOps encourages a shift-left approach, where security testing is integrated throughout the development process. Moreover, outdated software components and libraries can introduce security risks into the overall system. Failing to comply with these requirements can result in hefty fines and reputational damage.

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What is DevOps and DevSecOps?

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is the first of a blog series on DevSecOps. This first blog is an overview and subsequent blogs will take deeper dives into different aspects of the process. The next section describes how DevSecOps overlays onto DevOps. What is DevSecOps. The post What is DevOps and DevSecOps?

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Introduction to SAST

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. DevSecOps means countering threats at all stages of creating a software product. The DevSecOps process is impossible without securing the source code. As development fluency is growing every year, many companies are introducing DevSecOps. Global SAST market.

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Too Many Security Testing Tools? Here Are 5 Things Your Devsecops Tools Should Do

ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

DevSecOps is more than just a buzzword—it's a game-changing approach for modern software development teams. So what DevSecOps tools do you need? In this blog post, we'll delve into the five essential boxes that your DevSecOps tools need to check. Gone are the days of slapping security on as an afterthought.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for network defenders to focus on leading — not lagging — indicators

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2022

One could argue that the true lagging indicator in cybersecurity is a breach, and that anything that helps prevent a breach, like adopting a “ shift left ” philosophy as part of a DevSecOps initiative, is a leading indicator. If targets such as defect density or compliance to scanner policy (i.e.

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Third-Party Software Security Scanning

Cisco Security

MARCH 1, 2021

This blog is co-authored by Nur Hayat and is part two of a four-part series about DevSecOps. Earlier in this series we covered how Continuous Security Buddy (CSB) for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) — CSB for CI/CD — provides an automation framework for holistic, continuous security based on DevSecOps principles.

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Your AST Guide for the Disenchanted: Part 1

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this blog series, we’ll chronicle the top challenges of incorporating application security testing in DevOps workflows. How DevSecOps Came To Be. The social impact of DevSecOps is ironic, don’t you think? In our mission to.introduce complexity to a process (from DevOps to DevSecOps).we one wants to own it.

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Your AST Guide for the Disenchanted: Part 1

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In this blog series, we’ll chronicle the top challenges of incorporating application security testing in DevOps workflows. How DevSecOps Came To Be. The social impact of DevSecOps is ironic, don’t you think? In our mission to.introduce complexity to a process (from DevOps to DevSecOps).we one wants to own it.

Software

Software Manufacturing Marketing Technology

Your AST Guide for the Disenchanted: Part 1

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In this blog series, we’ll chronicle the top challenges of incorporating application security testing in DevOps workflows. How DevSecOps Came To Be. The social impact of DevSecOps is ironic, don’t you think? In our mission to.introduce complexity to a process (from DevOps to DevSecOps).we one wants to own it.

Software

Software Manufacturing Marketing Technology

Why You Need Application Security Testing for Business-Critical Applications: Part 3

Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

In this five part blog series, we discuss the importance of building secure business-critical applications with application security testing. In our second blog , we explain how application security testing can help validate the work of contractors and third-party developers to ensure they’re writing high quality and secure code.

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Source Code Leak – What We Learned and How You Can Protect Your IP

McAfee

JULY 31, 2020

With this information so easily available, ports unintentionally left open can introduce a wide swath of intrusion attempts. . We strongly encourage the movement from DevOps to DevSecOps , building this audit process into the standard practice of application development. .

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Cloudy with a Chance of Containers!

McAfee

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Vulnerabilities introduced by Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) : Containers are born and deployed in the developer pipeline continuously with no natural injection point for security policies. DevOps to DevSecOps : “Shift far left” Integrate Security into the DevOps process without slowing down developers.

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How to Use Mayhem With Github Actions to Easily Secure Your Applications

ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through the following: What is the Mayhem GitHub Action? Mayhem will then build and test the updated containerized application as well as use previous test cases to ensure that no new defects have been introduced with the update. How does the Mayhem GitHub Action Work? The developer merges their fix.

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2019 Recap: A Year to Remember

McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Introducing Unified Cloud Edge. Also at MPOWER, we introduced Unified Cloud Edge , an industry first initiative to address the security concerns of the cloud. DevSecOps Will Rise to Prominence as Growth in Containerized Workloads Causes Security Controls to ‘Shift Left’.

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GUEST ESSAY: Steps to leveraging ‘Robotic Process Automation’ (RPA) in cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Related: Gen-A’s impact on DevSecOps Robotic process automation is about getting repetitive, rule-based tasks done with the help of software robots , often called “bots.” Here is a strategic approach for introducing automation into the cybersecurity teams. A new ally in this battle is robotic process automation (RPA.)

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Why is AT&T adding Web Application Shielding to its Managed Vulnerability Program?

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by a guest blogger. Factors impacting remediation range from a lack of resources, to challenging environments with inconsistent DevSecOps practices, to haphazard scanning frequency and security testing. Introducing Web Application Shielding. Cybercriminals never sleep. A vulnerable state.

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The Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat Modeling

Cisco Security

APRIL 21, 2021

This blog is co-authored by Mohammad Iqbal and is part four of a four-part series about DevSecOps. At Cisco, we recognized the risks introduced by such practices and decided to explore strategies to continuously evaluate how an architecture evolves in production runtime to guard against architecture drift. LinkedIn. .

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on NIST 207A — guidance for adding ZTNA to cloud-native platforms

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Multi-tier policies Importantly, in addition to these five core principles, 207A introduces the concept of Multi-Tier Policies. The user in session has been authenticated and is allowed to execute the actions being taken.

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Opportunity for Software Security to Shift Further Left to Become SecDevOps, According to Veracode

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Pressure on developers to build and deploy software quicker than ever has precipitated the shift to DevSecOps – integrating Development, Security, and Operations to make Application Security an integral part of the software lifecycle. Learn more at www.veracode.com , on the Veracode blog and on Twitter. Copyright © 2021 Veracode, Inc.

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GUEST ESSAY: Embracing ‘Zero Trust’ can help cloud-native organizations operate securely

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2022

Security must be ‘baked in’ rather than ‘brushed on’—and this current ethos has given rise to the DevSecOps movement where security plays a leading role in the DevOps process. However, it’s not enough to simply shoehorn these practices into the dynamic cloud-native development lifecycle.

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Penetration Testing: What is it?

NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Shift left: Teams are introducing secure code review (SCR) and penetration testing into the software development life cycle (SDLC) to identify vulnerabilities earlier. DevSecOps: To ship secure software faster, organizations are working to integrate security processes seamlessly into the software development workflow and CI/CD pipelines.

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MITRE ATT&CK: The Magic of Application Mitigations

Cisco Security

MARCH 17, 2021

“Cisco Secure Application is the only solution purpose-built to protect business-critical applications, no matter where they run, from the inside out, to maintain speed and uptime,” says Al Huger in his blog, “ A New Approach to Application Security.”. Missed any of our earlier blogs? Code Signing (M1045). Want to learn how we do it?

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What a False Negative is and why it should be your primary criteria for a SAST tool

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This blog is about a term that is not as popular as False Positive, but is the reason security companies like ShiftLeft exist. From my experience, when introducing AppSec tools or DevSecOps culture, it is fine to tilt the processes towards productivity initially. Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash.

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Serverless and PaaS Security with CloudPassage Halo

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 4, 2021

In our previous blog, we introduced the Gartner report “Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS” 1 which discusses the challenges security teams face securing serverless and PaaS services, along with the best practices Gartner recommends to address those challenges.

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