More than ever, developers are building web applications on the foundations of open source software libraries. However, while those libraries make up the software bill of materials (SBOM) components inventory, not all developers and business stakeholders understand the significant impact on open source supply chain security that stems from including 3rd party libraries.
Expectations do not always line up with reality. If you’ve started using infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage your infrastructure, you’re already on your way to making your cloud provisioning processes more secure. But there’s a second piece to the infrastructure lifecycle — how do you know what resources are not yet managed by IaC in your cloud? And of the managed resources, do they remain the same in the cloud as when you defined them in code?
Recently, CVE-2022-0847 was created detailing a flaw in the Linux kernel that can be exploited allowing any process to modify files regardless of their permission settings or ownership. The vulnerability has been named “Dirty Pipe” by the security community due to its similarity to “Dirty COW”, a privilege escalation vulnerability reported in CVE-2016-5195, and because the flaw exists in the kernel pipeline implementation.
The most beautiful and inspiring aspect about open source code is, well, that it’s open source. We can look at open source packages like gifts that are exchanged between developers across the engineering world, allowing them to learn from the work other people do, contribute their own expertise, and grow their professional capabilities. Contributing to open source is much appreciated, and it is important to remember not only to benefit from these projects, but also to contribute back.
We’re excited to announce that Snyk and TopCoat are joining forces. TopCoat and its founders — Seth and Josh Rosen — are well established and respected in the data analytics space. They’ve built a powerful data analytics platform that simplifies building data applications through an integration with dbt, allowing data analysts and engineers to quickly create highly customized data reporting and visualizations.
