Always a concern for DevOps teams, security has now become a critical part of developing and releasing software – a reality reflected on the sharp increase in JFrog blogs about DevSecOps. In fact, we generated so many hard-hitting and instructive blogs about security and compliance in 2021 that we decided our DevSecOps coverage deserved its …
Achieving comprehensive security for the products delivered and deployed by organizations is becoming more difficult, due to a variety of factors. A key one is the growing volume, variety and complexity of software and connected devices in use. Another is the overwhelming risk of inherited software supply chain exposures. The result: Companies struggle every day …
One of the most worrisome trends in cybersecurity today is the skyrocketing incidence of supply chain attacks, such as the ones that hit SolarWinds last year and Kaseya more recently. Because they focus on compromising software development and delivery, supply chain attacks have forced developers and DevOps teams to scramble for solutions. Unfortunately, supply chain …
Recently, a novel supply chain attack was published by security researcher Alex Birsan, detailing how dependency confusion (or “namesquatting“) in package managers can be misused in order to execute malicious code on production and development systems. Background – dependency confusion & Birsan’s attack In short, most package managers such as pip and npm do not …
