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Risks Faced by Cloud-Native Apps and How to Assess Them

Modern organizations are adopting a cloud-native approach to their application development. While this approach provides many benefits, it also makes organizations face several challenges, including the challenge of securing the application with a completely different approach. In this blog, we will discuss how software changes and how organizations should think about securing it.

How to Sign Kubernetes using Sigstore

In this livestream we are joined by Adolfo Veytia, Staff Software Engineer at ChainGuard and Tech Lead on the Kubernetes SIG-Release team, as we talk about they were able to tackle signing all of the Kubernetes v1.24 image artifact using Sigstore. We then demonstrate signing an image and vulnerability scan result attestations with Sigstore's cosign utility. Didn't catch the live stream? Ask all of your Snyk questions and we’ll do our very best to answer them in the comment section.

A Busy Weekend for npm Attacks, Including 'cors' Typosquatting

‘Tis the season for a busy weekend of software supply chain attacks. Over the past three days, the Mend research team identified two separate attacks that published malicious packages to npm. Mend Supply Chain Defender quickly identified the malicious code; the owners were notified, and the packages were removed. That does not fully remove the risk, however. The first package has 9.5 million downloads, while account CI keys were compromised in the second, which can cause significant damage.

OPA Management: Challenges and Opportunities

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a policy engine that brings the speed, reliability and flexibility of decoupled policy as code to a wide range of authorization use cases across the cloud-native ecosystem. OPA is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project and has become an industry-wide standard for authorization, with several leading enterprises implementing it in their business-critical cloud systems.

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.