Securing Containers with Seccomp: Part 2
This tutorial will guide you through the setup of a GitHub Action generating a Seccomp filter for your application, a cutting-edge security feature for hardening containerized workloads.
Mackenzie Jackson, GitGuardian: “code security needs to be a layered approach”
Security should be something that companies implement into the software development lifecycle as early as possible. It should be a consideration at every step of development, from design and through to deployment and every incremental change made thereafter.
Data Breach: a 5 Steps Response Plan
A data breach is one of the worst scenarios in today’s enterprise security. What’s your plan to remediate this kind of situation, minimize the impact, and ensure business continuity? Although there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all tactic, the following steps are crucial to a positive outcome.
CI Pipelines: 5 Risks to Assess
More and more parts of the software development process can occur without human intervention. However, this is not without its drawbacks. To keep your code and secrets safe, you should add the following security practices to your CI pipeline.
10 Rules for Better Cloud Security
Cloud security is a shared responsibility and a big challenge. Here are the basic rules to have in mind to set up efficient guardrails.
Supply Chain Attacks: 6 Steps to protect your software supply chain
This article looks at software supply chain attacks, exactly what they are and 6 steps you can follow to protect your software supply chain and limit the impact of a supply chain attack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
