It's early in the morning on an unseasonably warm Tuesday in October. You're checking your email as you enjoy your first cup of coffee or tea for the day, and you almost do a spit-take when you read that OpenSSL has a forthcoming release to fix a CRITICAL vulnerability. Immediately, visions of Heartbleed pop into your head.

Serialization is the process of converting a JavaScript object into a stream of sequential bytes to send over a network or save to a database. Serialization changes the original data format while preserving its state and properties, so we can recreate it as needed. With serialization, we can write complex data to files, databases, and inter-process memory — and send that complex data between components and over networks.

Security testing is increasingly viewed as an essential part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Traditionally, agile software development has focused on development velocity, rapid market feedback, and delivering high quality products and services. However, software that's vulnerable to cyber attacks is not valuable to end users and creates huge risks for both customers and software vendors. This makes it critical to integrate security testing into the software development process.

Platform engineers need to be empowered in an organization’s security program. Their work has huge leverage over a product's security posture, arguably as great an impact (some would even say greater) than application vulnerabilities. Despite the significance of the impact of their work, their role in security programs remain ill-defined.

The Docker developer ecosystem is continuously growing, and container security is becoming even more important as the Docker developer ecosystem evolves. The developer-friendly Snyk security integration with Docker is invaluable in today’s landscape. Snyk has made significant updates to the Docker Desktop Extension and continues to evolve the extension to ensure the applications and images pushed to the container registry don't have critical vulnerabilities.

Digital transformation initiatives have pushed software development to the next level. Today's consumers demand an optimum customer experience and expect modern apps to live up to high expectations. So, the average developer in 2023 must keep up with faster delivery, more eye-catching features, and better functionality. This unprecedented growth in the software development industry has led to a massive disparity between development and security teams.

How hard can it be to support custom container image tags? Turns out… quite! I know this because my team has been busy at work on our new custom base image support for Snyk Container, andwe were tasked with the following problem: Given a tag, parse its parts to be able to compare it to other similar tags. It was a fun problem to solve, and we'd love to share how we got to our final solution!

This month, we hosted our most recent SnykLaunch to announce the latest and greatest in Snyk solutions. As with all of our releases, we continue to focus on adapting security to what we see in modern-day development practices. Compared to only a few years ago, more independent development teams are working faster, along with a far more complex software supply chain, including cloud as part of the code. Because development practices look so different today, security teams often struggle to keep up.

Snyk is known for its developer-first application security solutions for many ecosystems like Java, JavaScript, Python, and more. Snyk enables developers to not only find issues but quickly apply fixes, revolutionizing security and supporting its integration at the earliest stages of the SDLC. In 2022, we released the first round of support for C/C++ open source packages, and today we’re excited to announce the Open Beta of C/C++ for Snyk Code and licenses for Snyk Open Source.

In July 2022, we announced Snyk Cloud, extending the Snyk developer security platform to secure application and infrastructure configurations in running cloud environments. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce a new feature of Snyk Cloud that enables you to "fix cloud issues in IaC" (infrastructure as code), making Snyk Cloud the first solution to secure the cloud through code with remediation paths in IaC.