Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

October 2021

Accelerating the Snyk infrastructure as code vision with the addition of CloudSkiff

We are thrilled to welcome the team at CloudSkiff to Snyk! Many of you may be more familiar with driftctl, the open source project started by the CloudSkiff team. I wanted to share with you why we’re excited about the addition of this fantastic group of people to Snyk, and our plans for the future of Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC), as well as our commitment to keeping driftctl open source.

Snyk Code adds Apex, Swift language support + API, GraphQL security

Snyk Code has had a tremendous 2021. It started the year supporting three languages — Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript — and has since added Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, and Go. More languages and features are on the horizon, and in this article, we’re happy to announce the addition of Swift and Salesforce’s Apex support, as well as API and GraphQL security. Let’s get into it!

Providing Comprehensive Application Security from Code to Production: New Snyk and Hdiv Security Partnership

Together, we look forward to helping more global businesses to innovate securely by combining Snyk’s static analysis with Hdiv’s interactive testing capabilities. This will allow these digital-first organizations to continue their rapid pace of innovation while staying secure through comprehensive application security – from code in development to running workloads in production.

Secure Python Development and Package Management

How do you become a secure python developer? Following best practices, and learning about application security from experts! In this session we will explore and explain explain how Python manages dependencies, the requirements.txt file, and other aspects of 3rd-party open source software. We will gently touch upon an intro to the different package managers, such as pipenv, and poetry.

Mapping vulnerabilities to microservices with Snyk and OpsLevel

John Laban is the Founder & CEO at OpsLevel. This blog post originally appeared on the OpsLevel blog. Snyk is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for businesses that want to build security into their continuous software development processes. And with their developer-first tooling and best-in-class security intelligence, it’s no surprise.

New Java 17 features for improved security and serialization

In December 2020, I wrote the article Serialization and deserialization in Java: explaining the Java deserialize vulnerability about the problems Java has with its custom serialization implementation. The serialization framework is so deeply embedded inside Java that knowing how dangerous some implementation can be is important. Insecure deserialization can lead to arbitrary code executions if a gadget chain is created from your classpath classes.

Exploring the advanced technologies behind Snyk Code

Snyk Code is the static application security testing (SAST) solution from Snyk, and it introduces some revolutionary technologies into the SAST space. It is based on the research and technologies developed by a spin-off from the ETH (Zurich/Switzerland), DeepCode which joined Snyk at the end of 2020.

Snyk joins OpenSSF: Tackling open source supply chain security with a developer-first approach

I’m excited to share that Snyk has joined the Linux Foundation’s expanded support of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) as a premier member alongside Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Facebook, Intel, VMware, Red Hat, Oracle, and others. As Snyk’s mission is to enable developers to develop fast while staying secure, we believe that this cross-industry collaboration is critical to the future of software development and improving the security of open source.

Securing S3 bucket configuration and access with Snyk & Solvo

Solvo is empowering developers and DevOps engineers by enabling them to run their cloud infrastructure with least privilege access, at speed and scale. In this article, we’ll go through a workflow combining Solvo’s automatic platform with Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC) to create customized and secured access from a Lambda function to an AWS S3 bucket. This blog was originally posted on the Solvo website.

Snyk Code adds Go security scanning (beta)

Snyk Code was launched at the beginning of 2021, and since then it has come a long way in a short time. As a developer-first security tool, it offers an intuitive UI and CLI, embeds in popular IDEs, provides actionable fix recommendations, and scans with industry-leading, real-time speeds and high accuracy. On top of that, it’s all backed by ML-driven algorithms that learn from the global developer community, growing its robust knowledge base exponentially.

Embracing Developer-First Practices for the Cloud Era with Snyk Founder and President Guy Podjarny

In this video, Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk discussed the importance of embracing developer-first practices for the cloud era. Guy also shared Snyk's unshakeable dedication to developer and security teams as well as its original vision.

Introducing Snyk developer-first security into the Terraform Cloud workflow

With the rise in popularity of technologies such as HashiCorp Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, developers are writing and maintaining more and more configurations in addition to building the application itself. The growing use of infrastructure as code presents security complexity and the potential for risk that developers often struggle with as their workloads increase and more advanced skills are required.

Join Snyk in celebrating 31 days of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021

Today’s the first day of October as well as the first day of the 18th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The purpose of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is not only to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity, but also to inspire people to improve their cybersecurity posture: whether that be through implementing multi-factor authentication, not clicking that suspicious email attachment, or even writing code more securely by utilizing a tool like Snyk. =)