There is no news in DevOps concept. Many companies have integrated DevOps to improve and accelerate software development and help drive their digital transformation, and that number continues to grow exponentially. There are now entire tool ecosystems, methodologies and transformation models—as well as endless resources—available to guide companies along the DevOps journey. But DevOps success […]
4 Steps to Improving Your Team’s Continuous Security
A recent npm survey revealed that 77 percent of developers were concerned about the quality and security of the open source libraries they use, while 52 percent said the tools currently available were inadequate. Given the trust issues in open source and the ongoing discovery of website and application vulnerabilities, security should be top of […]
DevOps: Don’t Let Detection Be a Bottleneck for Security
AI and automation can help ensure DevOps security doesn’t impact performance The world revolves around software and internet-based applications—and speed is crucial. Users have very little patience for delays and will quickly jump to something else if performance lags. Organizations have embraced DevOps and containers in an effort to accelerate development and deployment of software […]
9 Pillars of Continuous Security Best Practices
Without proper consideration given to security best practices, the continuous delivery of software changes facilitated by DevOps is risky. On the other hand, DevOps provides an opportunity to reduce security risks if security is integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline according to best practices. This blog enumerates best practices for security across nine pillars of […]
The Secure Developer Podcast: Continuous Security at Chef
Welcome to The Secure Developer, a podcast about security for developers, covering security tools and practices you can and should adopt into your development workflow. The Secure Developer is hosted by Guy Podjarny, CEO and co-founder of Snyk. In this episode of The Secure Developer, Guy talks with Chef CTO Adam Jacob about the role security […]
Continuous is the Engine that Drives DevOps
It has been stated time and time (and time and time) again that DevOps is primarily a matter of shifting IT culture. The tools and practices that comprise DevOps play a secondary role. But that is only partially true: In reality, the culture shift revolves around continuity, and the applications and tools that fuel continuous […]
Continuous Security Key to Defending Your Data Well
Defending data isn’t easy. If it were, we wouldn’t see new data breach headlines on a weekly—or sometimes even daily—basis. That said, defending data also isn’t rocket science. A new report from Nuix highlights some of the major concerns with protecting data, and also illustrates some of the ways in which consistent vigilance is half […]
Combining SecOps and DevOps
Security has to be top of mind for most any company that is moving, or has moved, to the cloud. And, businesses know they need to act swiftly to ensure that any new products or services they’re dreaming up do not expose them to risk. How can they do that when the fast-moving nature of […]
Alert Logic Cloud Insight brings cloud-based security to your cloud infrastructure
One of the primary driving forces behind DevOps is its fluidity. There is a domino-effect that cascades from the developers who create the apps to the IT admins who deploy and administer the apps to the individuals who download and use the apps and back again. Traditional security can’t keep pace so Alert Logic created […]
Q&A with Mark Carrizosa of Soha Systems on secure transition to DevOps and cloud computing
We recently spoke with Mark Carrizosa, vice president of security at secure application delivery service provider Soha Systems about the trends he sees with enterprises moving to cloud services. Prior to recently joining Soha Systems, Carrizosa held the position of principal security architect at Walmart where he developed and implemented the company’s global e-commerce security […]