In a new article for HelpNet Security, Leon Juranic, security research team lead at Mend, states the case for taking proactive defensive steps against a new attack called Evil-Colon. Evil-Colon works similarly to the now defunct Poison-NULL-Byte attacks, and it has the potential to cause severe disruption to your code if not properly addressed. What does all this mean? In a nutshell, it’s possible to exploit applications that are performing path-based operations with user input in various ways.

Scanning a container image for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations on your GitLab CI/CD using Sysdig Secure is a straightforward process. This article demonstrates a step-by-step example of how to do it. The following proof of content showcased how to leverage the sysdig-cli-scanner with GitLab CI/CD. Although possible, this procedure is not officially supported by Sysdig, so we recommend checking the documentation to adapt these steps to your environment.

Authentication and authorization are two complementary and critical parts of securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Yet, there can be some confusion between these terms. The importance of cybersecurity approaches, such as Zero Trust and the principle of least privilege, make it critical to understand and implement appropriate authorization and authentication processes across cloud-native development.

Let's first take a look at what DevOps (Developer Operations) is so we can better understand why it has now evolved into DevSecOps (Developer Security Operations). DevOps is a combination of philosophies, practices, and tools that increases a business's ability to deliver better development in less time (Higher velocity). This can be applied to building a new product or the process of continuous improvement that applies to most products we see today.

This is the first of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitalization plans for global organizations by three years, while the adoption rate for digitized products and services increased by seven years.

One of the most important features Teleport has to offer is that it centralizes all of your infrastructure’s audit logging into one central place, mapping every query, every command and every session to an individual user's identity. As you hire more engineers and resources scale, it can become increasingly difficult to manage all of this log data. Luckily Teleport’s extensibility makes this log data extremely easy to format, export and monitor all in a secure, event-driven way.