Securing operations in the cloud can seem daunting. To protect your organization, you need to have the proper preventative and reactive safeguards in place at every step of the software development cycle. But it doesn’t have to be as complex as it sounds. This blog outlines how to secure the entire software development lifecycle, emphasizing the “shift left” approach, which aims to catch vulnerabilities and issues early in the development process to reduce both risks and costs.

Securely managing secrets within the CI/CD environment is super important. Mishandling secrets can expose sensitive information, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data breaches, and compromised systems.

There’s an age-old saying you can tell an engineer’s age by their preferred CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) tool. Depending on who you talk to, the battle-tested Jenkins remains their weapon of choice, while GitHub Actions is the new kid on the block turning heads. However, here’s something that might surprise you – about half of all developers spend less than 20 hours per week on actual software development tasks.

Modern software development teams will have individual preferences about whether to use IDEs or which testing framework or coding convention to adopt. However, for teams that want to deliver high-quality software at a rapid pace, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a must-have. Mature, high-performing dev teams lean heavily on their CI/CD pipeline. Because of this heavy dependence on CI/CD, ensuring the security of your CI/CD pipeline is incredibly important.

In recent weeks, reports have surfaced regarding a significant breach involving Cisco, exposing sensitive data from various organizations. This blog post delves into the details of the breach, the compromised data, the implicated companies, and the methods used by attackers to gain access to such critical information.

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Let’s start with statistics: continuous integration, deployment, and delivery is among the top IT investment priorities in 2023 and 2024. To be exact, according to GitLab’s 2024 Global DevSecOps report, it is on the 8th place (and security is the top priority!). However, it shouldn’t be surprising, as CI/CD practice brings a lot of benefits to IT teams – it helps to accelerate software delivery and detect vulnerabilities and bugs earlier.

Okay, so you’re a security leader at your enterprise – congratulations! It’s a big, challenging role, as you know too well. You or a colleague are likely responsible for securing the cloud and legacy apps that drive critical revenue and customer engagement for your organization. But it’s not just the apps you need to secure.

A security flaw that impacts specific versions of GitLab's Community and Enterprise Edition products was just detected. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute pipelines under any user's credentials. GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform offering tools for software development, version control, and project management. Launched as an open-source project in 2011, it has become a powerful solution used globally by millions.

In today’s fast-paced software development world, seamless, secure, and compliant CI/CD pipelines are critical for success. However, managing multiple tools and processes across development teams using traditional CI/CD solutions can lead to security vulnerabilities, compliance roadblocks, and hinder overall software delivery.