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Catching Log4j in the Wild: Find, Fix and Fortify

Catching Log4j in the Wild: Find, Fix and Fortify

At many organizations, the surprise discovery that the widely used Log4Shell open source software has harbored a longtime critical vulnerability was as if Scrooge and the Grinch had teamed up for the biggest holiday heist of all. Incident response teams across the globe have scrambled to remediate thousands, if not millions of applications. “For cybercriminals this…
Your Log4shell Remediation Cookbook Using the JFrog Platform

Your Log4shell Remediation Cookbook Using the JFrog Platform

UPDATED 1/14/2022: Added information on JFrog tool to patch Docker images in Artifactory repositories. Last week, a researcher from the Alibaba Cloud Security Team dropped a zero-day remote code execution exploit on Twitter, targeting the extremely popular log4j logging framework for Java (specifically, the 2.x branch called Log4j2). The vulnerability was originally discovered and reported to…
Glide to JFrog DevSecOps with the New Experience

Glide to JFrog DevSecOps with the New Experience

We're excited to share with you that we have launched a completely new way to start using the JFrog DevOps Platform that you – as a developer – will love. We’ve provided a super-easy, developer-friendly path to discovering how Artifactory and Xray can help you produce safer apps, faster, getting started through the command line…
With AWS EKS Anywhere, DevOps with Artifactory Can Be Everywhere

With AWS EKS Anywhere, DevOps with Artifactory Can Be Everywhere

With all the focus on public cloud infrastructures, it’s easy to believe that there is no room for on-premises deployments of infrastructure. However, on-prem deployments are not likely to completely go away because often it’s just the right thing to do. If you operate in highly regulated environments, with a need for heightened security over…
Announcing the JFrog Slack App for Artifactory and Xray Cloud

Announcing the JFrog Slack App for Artifactory and Xray Cloud

Imagine a world where every team member could directly contribute to software together. We’re living in that world now. With more than 10 million daily active users, Slack is one of the most ‘lived in’ collaboration tools used by software development teams around the world. With this in mind, JFrog is excited to announce that…
JFrog Cold Artifact Storage: Retention Policies for Your Binaries

JFrog Cold Artifact Storage: Retention Policies for Your Binaries

With the trend towards smaller but more frequent software releases, your binaries and artifacts keep accumulating faster. Our enterprise customers each maintain an average of 20 million unique artifacts, adding 130% more each year. Eventually, a clutter of outdated binaries forms, and fInding the binaries you need becomes unwieldy, difficult, and confusing. Over time, your…
GitLab vs JFrog: Who Has the Right Stuff?

GitLab vs JFrog: Who Has the Right Stuff?

Like the historic space race, the competition to plant the flag of DevOps is blasting off which makes it an exciting moment for the community. According to market intelligence firm IDC, global business will invest $6.8 trillion in digital transformation by 2023. Yet research also suggests that 70 percent of them will fail to meet…
Update Repositories for PHP Composer v2 in JFrog Artifactory

Update Repositories for PHP Composer v2 in JFrog Artifactory

If you’re among the nearly one in four professional developers using PHP (according to StackOverflow’s 2021 survey), then the maintainers of Composer would really like you to migrate from v1 of the PHP package manager to v2.  On October 24 2020, Composer 2.0.0 was released with some major improvements.Since almost eight out of every ten…
The More the Merrier: Multi-Arch Docker Manifests with Buildx and Artifactory

The More the Merrier: Multi-Arch Docker Manifests with Buildx and Artifactory

The cloud native promise to be able to “build once, deploy anywhere” is nearly fulfilled. With containerization and Docker, we can build our applications and services for any environment, and set configuration at runtime. Well,... almost. Operating systems and apps still need to be compiled to execute on specific architecture types. Your software that’s been…
It’s Time to Get Hip to the SBOM

It’s Time to Get Hip to the SBOM

The DevOps, IT security and IT governance communities will remember 2021 as the year when the Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, graduated from a “nice to have” to a “must have.”  Around for years, the SBOM has now become a critical DevSecOps piece, which everyone must thoroughly understand and incorporate into their SDLC (Software…