Companies are increasingly concerned about the security of applications built on open source components, especially when they’re involved in mergers and acquisitions. Just like copyright for works of art, each piece of open source software has a license that states legally binding conditions for its use.
Managing dependencies is not for the faint of heart. For a single project, you may be able to keep up with dependencies on your own. For software codebases with hundreds of modules, however, even the most seasoned developer will quickly descend into dependency hell. Don’t worry: dependency hell has happened to the best of us! There are some things you can do to keep yourself sane and improve application security.
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) act as a security layer in your infrastructure. They enforce rules, regulate permissions, and affect policies across the network. Do you want to assign additional privileges to certain groups? Delete a security group? Modify password policies across the network? Prevent software installations on critical systems? All of these and more can be accomplished using GPOs.
In today’s fast-paced software development environment, developers often use common public libraries and modules to quickly build applications. However, this presents a significant challenge for DevOps teams who must ensure that these applications are safe to use.
DevOps engineers must handle secrets with care. In this series, we summarize best practices for leveraging secrets with your everyday tools.
