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Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity — Minimum Testing Standards for Software Vendors (part 2)

Continuing our coverage of the Executive Order on Cybersecurity, let's figure out what are the minimum testing standards for software vendors as depicted by the NIST.

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Hardening Your Kubernetes Cluster - Guidelines (Pt. 2)

In this second episode, we will go through the NSA/CISA security recommendations and explain every piece of the guidelines.

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Hardening Your Kubernetes Cluster - Threat Model (Pt. 1)

The NSA and CISA recently released a guide on Kubernetes hardening. We'll cover this guide in a three part series. First, let's explore the Threat Model and how it maps to K8s components.

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Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity — What is 'Critical Software' and how should it be secured? (part 1)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under Executive Order (EO) 14028 has launched an initiative to improve the United States Cybersecurity on May 12th, 2021.

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Security in Infrastructure as Code with Terraform — Everything You Need to Know

With DevOps, we try to manage our infrastructure using pure code. Since all our infrastructure is managed by code, the security of the code that actually manages the infrastructure is crucial. This article looks at how we can keep our infrastructure as code secure.

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Data Security — an Introduction to AWS KMS and HashiCorp Vault

While Vault and KMS share some similarities, for example, they both support encryption, but in general, KMS is more on the app data encryption / infra encryption side, and Vault is more on the secrets management / identity-based access side.

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A Comprehensive Application Security Program - What it should include

Application security, known as AppSec, has become an extremely important part of the security program. This article looks at what makes a mature and comprehensive AppSec program.

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How to safely open-source internal software - Some best practices

On this post we’ll be focusing on a few essentials that should be done before making your project open-source.

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File types that most commonly contain sensitive information

As outlined in the State of Secrets Sprawl report, 5 million credentials and other secrets get leaked on Github every year. This is an in-depth look into what file extensions most commonly contain secrets.

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How to scan local files for secrets in python using the GitGuardian API

How to scan local files for secrets like API keys and security certificates in python using the GitGuardian API.

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Best practices for managing and storing secrets including API keys and other credentials [cheat sheet included]

Storing and managing secrets like API keys and other credentials can be challenging, even the most careful policies can sometimes be circumvented in exchange for convenience. We have compiled a

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8 free security tools every developer should know and use to Shift Left

A list of 8 free must use security tools every developer should know about to help them secure their code and Shift Left.

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8 steps to keep remote development teams secure

There is no doubt that the world's workforce is becoming more remote, particularly in tech as developers can now work from any location in the world. But there are a large number of new obstacles that come with this. The most pressing is security.

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Exposing secrets on GitHub: What to do after leaking credentials and API keys

If you have discovered that you have just exposed a sensitive file or secrets to a public git repository, there are some very important steps to follow.