Security is a critical, if somewhat overwhelming, task for any organization. As products grow and teams expand, the challenge of maintaining a security posture at scale increases as well. This is where automation comes in. The ability to automate security tasks offers obvious benefits such as increased speed, while also driving deeper shifts in a company’s culture and processes.
As a developer, you’re probably using some infrastructure cloud provider. And chances are, you automate parts of your infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC), so deployments are repeatable, consistent, easily deployable, and overall, more secure because code makes parameters more visible.
Snyk Code is turning one! We’ve hit so many milestones in the last 12 months, and today we invite you to look back, celebrate, and peer into the future of code security with us.
Many companies look to CISOs or compliance teams to manage security throughout software development. But this practice usually keeps security considerations separate from developers. CISOs can assign security tasks to developers, but if developers aren’t thinking about security regularly, those tasks may be overlooked.
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In our mission to make Terraform Cloud workflows more streamlined and secure, we’re excited to announce our new native integration into HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. This integration embeds the security expertise and developer-friendly fixes of Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC) directly into Terraform Cloud, making the Terraform Cloud workflow one of the safest ways to provision and manage public cloud infrastructure.
Over the years, as a developer, I’ve built and deployed many applications through digital agencies, side projects, startups, and freelance work. With time-sensitive deadlines, client expectations, and delivery dates to consider, security wasn’t usually top of mind when npm installing an open source package. This often led to reworking and cleanup on deployments that had let in known vulnerabilities, adding to compounding timelines and client disappointment.
Ignore a vulnerability? That sounds like a paradox. Why would anyone want to ignore a vulnerability? While ignoring security issues should not be your default practice, it is still sometimes necessary. Development and security teams today face vulnerability backlogs consisting of thousands of issues. To maintain rapid development, they must be able to effectively prioritize their work.
Hosting a CI/CD platform on Kubernetes is becoming more common among engineers. This approach saves time through automation, ensures consistent deployments, and makes it easier to monitor and manage microservices. However, building container images in Kubernetes clusters involves some technical hurdles that require workarounds. In this article, we’ll explore some ways to build Docker images in a Kubernetes cluster for CI/CD processes.
Application innovation, design, development, quality assurance, and security testing have changed dramatically over the past decade. Engineering teams are leveraging agile development processes, modern cloud platforms, reusable microservices, and extensible APIs, enabling them to shift to more frequent deployments more easily.
