The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing these security gaps.
Understanding & Addressing OWASP’s Newest Top Ten Threat: Using Components wi...Sonatype
In 2013, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) was updated to include “A9: using components with known vulnerabilities.” This paper explains this new threat with practical ideas for reducing risk from open source components which now comprise 80% of an average application.
Snippets, Scans and Snap Decisions: How Component Identification Methods Impa...Sonatype
For the most part, modern software is assembled, not written. More than 90 percent of a typical software application is comprised of third party components, most of which are open source. Custom business logic comprises the remaining 10 percent. This massive reliance on open source components has created new challenges for managing software security, quality and intellectual property. Organizations who rely on custom software are increasingly seeking visibility and control to manage risk and maximize benefit. But to properly manage open source components, you must know as much as possible about them—starting with precisely identifying them. Security, quality and licensing information is of little use if you haven't precisely identified the component you are using. And, without both accurate and actionable component information, developers are not able to make the right component selection from the start. This paper addresses the pros and cons of various methods used in open source risk management/governance/logistics solutions and how they impact your efficiency and accuracy.
Lawyers and Licenses in Open Source-based Development: How to Protect Your So...Sonatype
You can build better software faster with Open Source Software (OSS) components, but you must ensure that your organization meets component-licensing terms. Violating the terms of an open source license is copyright or intellectual property infringement and can lead to legal and financial penalties. This white paper explains why certain types of open source licenses create legal risk and describes win-win methods for avoiding risk that give lawyers the confidence they need while giving developers the speed they need.
Tools & Techniques for Addressing Component Vulnerabilities for PCI ComplianceSonatype
Recent revisions to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines now require organizations to address potential vulnerabilities caused by use of open source components in their applications.
Hidden Speed Bumps on the Road to "Continuous"Sonatype
As a companion piece for our '2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report' this ebook explores the hidden complexities in modern software development by drawing analogies to a traditional supply chain. This is a real eye-opener for anyone who cares about development speed, efficiency and quality.
Presentation on the risks present in the supply chain for software given at the Supply Chain Risk Management Symposium on Jan 15, 2015 in Arlington VA. Contains a brief introduction on how one might approach reducing the risks.
Understanding & Addressing OWASP’s Newest Top Ten Threat: Using Components wi...Sonatype
In 2013, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) was updated to include “A9: using components with known vulnerabilities.” This paper explains this new threat with practical ideas for reducing risk from open source components which now comprise 80% of an average application.
Snippets, Scans and Snap Decisions: How Component Identification Methods Impa...Sonatype
For the most part, modern software is assembled, not written. More than 90 percent of a typical software application is comprised of third party components, most of which are open source. Custom business logic comprises the remaining 10 percent. This massive reliance on open source components has created new challenges for managing software security, quality and intellectual property. Organizations who rely on custom software are increasingly seeking visibility and control to manage risk and maximize benefit. But to properly manage open source components, you must know as much as possible about them—starting with precisely identifying them. Security, quality and licensing information is of little use if you haven't precisely identified the component you are using. And, without both accurate and actionable component information, developers are not able to make the right component selection from the start. This paper addresses the pros and cons of various methods used in open source risk management/governance/logistics solutions and how they impact your efficiency and accuracy.
Lawyers and Licenses in Open Source-based Development: How to Protect Your So...Sonatype
You can build better software faster with Open Source Software (OSS) components, but you must ensure that your organization meets component-licensing terms. Violating the terms of an open source license is copyright or intellectual property infringement and can lead to legal and financial penalties. This white paper explains why certain types of open source licenses create legal risk and describes win-win methods for avoiding risk that give lawyers the confidence they need while giving developers the speed they need.
Tools & Techniques for Addressing Component Vulnerabilities for PCI ComplianceSonatype
Recent revisions to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines now require organizations to address potential vulnerabilities caused by use of open source components in their applications.
Hidden Speed Bumps on the Road to "Continuous"Sonatype
As a companion piece for our '2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report' this ebook explores the hidden complexities in modern software development by drawing analogies to a traditional supply chain. This is a real eye-opener for anyone who cares about development speed, efficiency and quality.
Presentation on the risks present in the supply chain for software given at the Supply Chain Risk Management Symposium on Jan 15, 2015 in Arlington VA. Contains a brief introduction on how one might approach reducing the risks.
Innovating Faster with Continuous Application Security Jeff Williams
DevSecOps tutorial and demonstration. Build your pipeline with IAST, RASP, and OSS. Try Contrast community edition full strength DevSecOps platform for testing, protecting, and open source analysis -- all for free. https://www.contrastsecurity.com/contrast-community-edition
Application Security at DevOps Speed and Portfolio ScaleJeff Williams
Published on Nov 26, 2013
AppSec at DevOps Speed and Portfolio Scale - Jeff Williams
Watch this talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvOth0fxmI
Software development is moving much faster than application security with new platforms, languages, frameworks, paradigms, and methodologies like Agile and Devops.
Unfortunately, software assurance hasn't kept up with the times. For the most part, our security techniques were built to work with the way software was built in 2002. Here are some of the technologies and practices that today's best software assurance techniques *can't*handle: JavaScript, Ajax, inversion of control, aspect-oriented programming, frameworks, libraries, SOAP, REST, web services, XML, JSON, raw sockets, HTML5, Agile, DevOps, WebSocket, Cloud, and more. All of these rest pretty much at the core of modern software development.
Although we're making progress in application security, the gains are much slower than the stunning advances in software development. After 10 years of getting further behind every day, software *assurance* is now largely incompatible with modern software *development*. It's not just security tools -- application security processes are largely incompatible as well. And the result is that security has very little influence on the software trajectory at all.
Unless the application security community figures out how to be a relevant part of software development, we will continue to lag behind and effect minimal change. In this talk, I will explore a radically different approach based on instrumenting an entire IT organization with passive sensors to collect realtime data that can be used to identify vulnerabilities, enhance security architecture, and (most importantly) enable application security to generate value. The goal is unprecedented real-time visibility into application security across an organization's entire application portfolio, allowing all the stakeholders in security to collaborate and finally become proactive.
Speaker
Jeff Williams
CEO, Aspect Security
Jeff is a founder and CEO of Aspect Security and recently launched Contrast Security, a new approach to application security analysis. Jeff was an OWASP Founder and served as Global Chairman from 2004 to 2012, contributing many projects including the OWASP Top Ten, WebGoat, ESAPI, ASVS, and more. Jeff is passionate about making it possible for anyone to do their own continuous application security in real time.
Recent studies have shown that 90% of security breaches involve a software vulnerability caused by a missing patch – even if the patch is made available to the public.
Many organizations do not realize that a vulnerable system connected to the enterprise network potentially puts the entire organization to risk by being an easy target for cyber-attacks. Many service providers scan the network and provide a comprehensive report of the vulnerabilities existing in endpoint systems. However, they do not take the next step to remove the vulnerabilities.
Read this whitepaper to know how SecPod's Saner ensures enterprise security by remediating vulnerabilities in the endpoints. Saner is a light-weight, enterprise grade, scalable solution that hardens your systems; providing protection from malware & security threats
7 Reasons Your Applications are Attractive to AdversariesDerek E. Weeks
Presentation from 18 November 2014.
Software applications need to be delivered faster and across more platforms than ever. To build high quality software in short order, we’ve seen a dramatic shift from source code to component-based development, with open source and third party components providing the innovation and efficiency that developers need.
Unfortunately, our dependence on components is growing faster than our ability to secure them. These shared components are not top-of-mind when considering application risk. Worse yet, components are increasingly the preferred attack surface in today’s applications.
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing this security gap.
So what’s the “neglected 90%,” why is it attractive to your adversaries and what can you do about it? Plenty. Here are 7 key points, for starters.
http://bit.ly/AHC_USAF
Recent studies have shown that 90% of security breaches involve a software vulnerability caused by a missing patch – even if the patch is made available to public.
Most organisations do not realise that a vulnerable system connected to the enterprise network potentially puts the entire organisation to risk by being easy targets of cyber-attacks. Many service providers scan the network and provide a comprehensive report of the vulnerabilities existing in the end point systems. However, they do not take the next step of removing these vulnerabilities.
Read this whitepaper to know how Saner ensures enterprise security by remediating vulnerabilities in the endpoints.
Secure Code review - Veracode SaaS Platform - Saudi Green MethodSalil Kumar Subramony
Veracode provides the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform. Veracode's patented and proven cloud-based capabilities allow customers to govern and mitigate software security risk across a single application or an enterprise portfolio with unmatched simplicity. Veracode was founded with one simple mission in mind: to make it simple and cost-effective for organizations to accurately identify and manage application security risk.
AppSec How-To: Achieving Security in DevOpsCheckmarx
How do you integrate security within a Continuous Deployment (CD) environment, where every 5 minutes a feature, an enhancement, or a bug fix needs to be released? Find out in this Checkmarx How-To Paper.
The Web AppSec How-To: The Defender's ToolboxCheckmarx
Web application security has made headline news in the past few years. In this article, we review the various Web application security tools and highlight important decision factors to help you choose the application security technology best suited for your environment.
Protecting Enterprise - An examination of bugs, major vulnerabilities and exp...ESET Middle East
This white paper focuses on the dramatic growth in the number and severity of software vulnerabilities, and discusses how multilayered endpoint security is needed to mitigate the threats they pose.
Empowering Application Security Protection in the World of DevOpsIBM Security
Watch on-demand now: https://securityintelligence.com/events/application-security-protection-world-of-devops/
How do organizations build secure applications, given today's rapidly moving and evolving DevOps practices? Development teams are aware of the shifting security challenges they face. However, they're by no means security experts, nor do they have spare time on their hands to learn new tools.
What can development teams do to keep pace with rapidly-evolving application security threats?
The answer lies in automation. By making application security part of the continuous build processes, organizations can protect against these major risks.
In this session, you will learn:
- New security challenges facing today’s popular DevOps and Continuous Integration (CI) practices, including managing custom code and open source risks with containers and traditional environments.
- Best practices for designing and incorporating an automated approach to application security into your existing development environment.
- Future development and application security challenges organizations will face and what they can do to prepare.
Lessons Learned From Heartbleed, Struts, and The Neglected 90%Sonatype
Watch this insightful and witty discussion between two old pals, Wendy Nather, Security Research Director at 451 Research and Josh Corman, CTO at Sonatype on the state of application security today. They share their perspectives on the changing landscape of application development and how this is impacting common application security approaches. They agree the dramatic shift from source code to component based development has created an open source security gap. With component vulnerabilities becoming national news, Heartbleed, Struts and the promise of more to come, now is the time to stop using components with known vulnerabilities.
To learn more about Heartbleed and what it means for your company please visit http://www.sonatype.com/clm/spotlight-on-heartbleed
Continuous Application Security at Scale with IAST and RASP -- Transforming D...Jeff Williams
Abstract: SAST, DAST, and WAF have been around for almost 15 years — they’re almost impossible to use, can’t protect modern applications, and aren’t compatible with modern software development. Recent studies have demonstrated that these tools miss the majority of real vulnerabilities and attacks while generating staggering numbers of false positives. To compensate, these tools require huge teams of application security experts that can’t possibly keep up with the size of modern application portfolios. Fortunately, the next generation of application security technology uses dynamic software instrumentation to solve these challenges. Gartner calls these products “Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)” and “Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP).” In this talk, you’ll learn how IAST and RASP have revolutionized vulnerability assessment and attack prevention in a massively scalable way.
Bio: A pioneer in application security, Jeff Williams is the founder and CTO of Contrast Security, a revolutionary application security product. Contrast is an application agent that enables software to both report vulnerabilities and prevent attacks. Jeff has over 25 years of security experience, speaks frequently on cutting-edge application security, and has helped secure code at hundreds of major enterprises. Jeff served as the Global Chairman of the OWASP Foundation for eight years, where he created many open-source standards, tools, libraries, and guidelines - including the OWASP Top Ten.
Crafting Super-Powered Risk Assessments by Digital Defense Inc & VeracodeDigital Defense Inc
http://www.ddifrontline.com
Digital Defense Inc (DDI) and Veracode present the "Crafting Super-Powered Risk Assessments" webinar and slides. The presentation covers security assessments, application security, and how to manage risk.
How can multiple teams across a product line deliver software while everyone works from home? This is the story of those teams at Sonatype. Also see our experience report at http://bit.ly/agile2015-remotelyagile
Innovating Faster with Continuous Application Security Jeff Williams
DevSecOps tutorial and demonstration. Build your pipeline with IAST, RASP, and OSS. Try Contrast community edition full strength DevSecOps platform for testing, protecting, and open source analysis -- all for free. https://www.contrastsecurity.com/contrast-community-edition
Application Security at DevOps Speed and Portfolio ScaleJeff Williams
Published on Nov 26, 2013
AppSec at DevOps Speed and Portfolio Scale - Jeff Williams
Watch this talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvOth0fxmI
Software development is moving much faster than application security with new platforms, languages, frameworks, paradigms, and methodologies like Agile and Devops.
Unfortunately, software assurance hasn't kept up with the times. For the most part, our security techniques were built to work with the way software was built in 2002. Here are some of the technologies and practices that today's best software assurance techniques *can't*handle: JavaScript, Ajax, inversion of control, aspect-oriented programming, frameworks, libraries, SOAP, REST, web services, XML, JSON, raw sockets, HTML5, Agile, DevOps, WebSocket, Cloud, and more. All of these rest pretty much at the core of modern software development.
Although we're making progress in application security, the gains are much slower than the stunning advances in software development. After 10 years of getting further behind every day, software *assurance* is now largely incompatible with modern software *development*. It's not just security tools -- application security processes are largely incompatible as well. And the result is that security has very little influence on the software trajectory at all.
Unless the application security community figures out how to be a relevant part of software development, we will continue to lag behind and effect minimal change. In this talk, I will explore a radically different approach based on instrumenting an entire IT organization with passive sensors to collect realtime data that can be used to identify vulnerabilities, enhance security architecture, and (most importantly) enable application security to generate value. The goal is unprecedented real-time visibility into application security across an organization's entire application portfolio, allowing all the stakeholders in security to collaborate and finally become proactive.
Speaker
Jeff Williams
CEO, Aspect Security
Jeff is a founder and CEO of Aspect Security and recently launched Contrast Security, a new approach to application security analysis. Jeff was an OWASP Founder and served as Global Chairman from 2004 to 2012, contributing many projects including the OWASP Top Ten, WebGoat, ESAPI, ASVS, and more. Jeff is passionate about making it possible for anyone to do their own continuous application security in real time.
Recent studies have shown that 90% of security breaches involve a software vulnerability caused by a missing patch – even if the patch is made available to the public.
Many organizations do not realize that a vulnerable system connected to the enterprise network potentially puts the entire organization to risk by being an easy target for cyber-attacks. Many service providers scan the network and provide a comprehensive report of the vulnerabilities existing in endpoint systems. However, they do not take the next step to remove the vulnerabilities.
Read this whitepaper to know how SecPod's Saner ensures enterprise security by remediating vulnerabilities in the endpoints. Saner is a light-weight, enterprise grade, scalable solution that hardens your systems; providing protection from malware & security threats
7 Reasons Your Applications are Attractive to AdversariesDerek E. Weeks
Presentation from 18 November 2014.
Software applications need to be delivered faster and across more platforms than ever. To build high quality software in short order, we’ve seen a dramatic shift from source code to component-based development, with open source and third party components providing the innovation and efficiency that developers need.
Unfortunately, our dependence on components is growing faster than our ability to secure them. These shared components are not top-of-mind when considering application risk. Worse yet, components are increasingly the preferred attack surface in today’s applications.
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing this security gap.
So what’s the “neglected 90%,” why is it attractive to your adversaries and what can you do about it? Plenty. Here are 7 key points, for starters.
http://bit.ly/AHC_USAF
Recent studies have shown that 90% of security breaches involve a software vulnerability caused by a missing patch – even if the patch is made available to public.
Most organisations do not realise that a vulnerable system connected to the enterprise network potentially puts the entire organisation to risk by being easy targets of cyber-attacks. Many service providers scan the network and provide a comprehensive report of the vulnerabilities existing in the end point systems. However, they do not take the next step of removing these vulnerabilities.
Read this whitepaper to know how Saner ensures enterprise security by remediating vulnerabilities in the endpoints.
Secure Code review - Veracode SaaS Platform - Saudi Green MethodSalil Kumar Subramony
Veracode provides the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform. Veracode's patented and proven cloud-based capabilities allow customers to govern and mitigate software security risk across a single application or an enterprise portfolio with unmatched simplicity. Veracode was founded with one simple mission in mind: to make it simple and cost-effective for organizations to accurately identify and manage application security risk.
AppSec How-To: Achieving Security in DevOpsCheckmarx
How do you integrate security within a Continuous Deployment (CD) environment, where every 5 minutes a feature, an enhancement, or a bug fix needs to be released? Find out in this Checkmarx How-To Paper.
The Web AppSec How-To: The Defender's ToolboxCheckmarx
Web application security has made headline news in the past few years. In this article, we review the various Web application security tools and highlight important decision factors to help you choose the application security technology best suited for your environment.
Protecting Enterprise - An examination of bugs, major vulnerabilities and exp...ESET Middle East
This white paper focuses on the dramatic growth in the number and severity of software vulnerabilities, and discusses how multilayered endpoint security is needed to mitigate the threats they pose.
Empowering Application Security Protection in the World of DevOpsIBM Security
Watch on-demand now: https://securityintelligence.com/events/application-security-protection-world-of-devops/
How do organizations build secure applications, given today's rapidly moving and evolving DevOps practices? Development teams are aware of the shifting security challenges they face. However, they're by no means security experts, nor do they have spare time on their hands to learn new tools.
What can development teams do to keep pace with rapidly-evolving application security threats?
The answer lies in automation. By making application security part of the continuous build processes, organizations can protect against these major risks.
In this session, you will learn:
- New security challenges facing today’s popular DevOps and Continuous Integration (CI) practices, including managing custom code and open source risks with containers and traditional environments.
- Best practices for designing and incorporating an automated approach to application security into your existing development environment.
- Future development and application security challenges organizations will face and what they can do to prepare.
Lessons Learned From Heartbleed, Struts, and The Neglected 90%Sonatype
Watch this insightful and witty discussion between two old pals, Wendy Nather, Security Research Director at 451 Research and Josh Corman, CTO at Sonatype on the state of application security today. They share their perspectives on the changing landscape of application development and how this is impacting common application security approaches. They agree the dramatic shift from source code to component based development has created an open source security gap. With component vulnerabilities becoming national news, Heartbleed, Struts and the promise of more to come, now is the time to stop using components with known vulnerabilities.
To learn more about Heartbleed and what it means for your company please visit http://www.sonatype.com/clm/spotlight-on-heartbleed
Continuous Application Security at Scale with IAST and RASP -- Transforming D...Jeff Williams
Abstract: SAST, DAST, and WAF have been around for almost 15 years — they’re almost impossible to use, can’t protect modern applications, and aren’t compatible with modern software development. Recent studies have demonstrated that these tools miss the majority of real vulnerabilities and attacks while generating staggering numbers of false positives. To compensate, these tools require huge teams of application security experts that can’t possibly keep up with the size of modern application portfolios. Fortunately, the next generation of application security technology uses dynamic software instrumentation to solve these challenges. Gartner calls these products “Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)” and “Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP).” In this talk, you’ll learn how IAST and RASP have revolutionized vulnerability assessment and attack prevention in a massively scalable way.
Bio: A pioneer in application security, Jeff Williams is the founder and CTO of Contrast Security, a revolutionary application security product. Contrast is an application agent that enables software to both report vulnerabilities and prevent attacks. Jeff has over 25 years of security experience, speaks frequently on cutting-edge application security, and has helped secure code at hundreds of major enterprises. Jeff served as the Global Chairman of the OWASP Foundation for eight years, where he created many open-source standards, tools, libraries, and guidelines - including the OWASP Top Ten.
Crafting Super-Powered Risk Assessments by Digital Defense Inc & VeracodeDigital Defense Inc
http://www.ddifrontline.com
Digital Defense Inc (DDI) and Veracode present the "Crafting Super-Powered Risk Assessments" webinar and slides. The presentation covers security assessments, application security, and how to manage risk.
How can multiple teams across a product line deliver software while everyone works from home? This is the story of those teams at Sonatype. Also see our experience report at http://bit.ly/agile2015-remotelyagile
Accelerating innovation with software supply chain management matthewabq
Competitive software organizations require high velocity production, operational efficiency, and continuous innovation – often achieved by sacrificing product quality, development process visibility, and corporate governance. As OSS consumption increases, such compromises are less acceptable as they render organizations blind to the building blocks comprising their software, thus accumulating technical debt and introducing risky defects. Learn how a holistic, automatable supply chain management approach to software leveraging Nexus Lifecycle improves product quality, delivery velocity, OSS governance, and mean-time-to-repair.
White Paper: Software Supply Chain Automation: Going Beyond Agile, Lean and D...Sonatype
This white paper highlights similarities between automobile manufacturing and software development with compelling information about how supply chain best practices could solve many common development issues, especially those relating to managing the flow of components into and though an organization.
White Paper: Concepts and Benefits of Repository ManagementSonatype
Since much of today’s software is assembled using open source, proprietary or 3rd party compo- nents, many organizations rely on repository management to efficiently source, store, share and deploy these components. The volume and velocity of component parts used in your software development process creates a ‘software supply chain’ and, in that context, a repository manager serves as your official parts warehouse. The repository manager can also provide critical insight into component quality so development teams make better choices up front, and avoid downstream technical debt and unplanned/unscheduled work.
Software supply chain management: Gaining velocity without losing controlmatthewabq
Competitive software organizations require high velocity production, operational efficiency, and continuous innovation – often achieved by sacrificing product quality, development process visibility, and corporate governance. As OSS consumption increases, such compromises are less acceptable as they render organizations blind to the building blocks comprising their software, thus accumulating technical debt and introducing risky defects. Learn how a holistic, automatable supply chain management approach to software improves product quality, OSS governance and mean-time-to-repair.
Enterprise Docker Requires a Private RegistryChris Riley ☁
From a webinar I did with Sonatype. In it I discuss the importance of a private registry to make sure Docker adoption is successful and sustainable in the Enterprise.
DevOps Will Save The World! : Public Safety, Public Policy, and DevOps In Context
Joshua Corman, CTO, Sonatype
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-hskShNyoo
DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures for DockerSonatype
People want to understand how to architect continuous delivery and DevOps environments using containerized applications and artifacts. We assembled this deck to represent best practices across a number of different organizations. These may look like the tool chains and infrastructure that you have built or would like to build.
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures - Volume 2Sonatype
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES Including Sonatype Nexus and other popular DevOps tools Derek E. Weeks (@weekstweets) VP and DevOps Advocate Sonatype.
Continuous Delivery and DevOps Reference Architectures include many common tool choices. The most common tool choices we find in these reference architectures are: Eclipse, git, Cloudbees Jenkins / Atlassian Bamboo, Sonatype Nexus, Atlassian JIRA, SonarQube, Puppet, Chef, Rundeck, Maven / Ant / Gradle, Subversion (svn), Junit, LiveRebel, ServiceNow
DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (including Nexus and o...Sonatype
There are numerous examples of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures available, and each of them vary in levels of detail, tools highlighted, and processes followed. Yet, there is a constant theme among the tool sets: Jenkins, Maven, Sonatype Nexus, Subversion, Git, Docker, Puppet/Chef, Rundeck, ServiceNow, and Sonar seem to show up time and again.
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
With that in mind, here are 10 best DevSecOps tools for 2023 so you can get started on the right foot with the latest and greatest techniques. https://bit.ly/3Fd295g
Selecting an App Security Testing Partner: An eGuideHCLSoftware
In the age of digital transformation, global businesses leverage web application scanning tools to shape innovative employee cultures, business processes, and customer experiences. The surge in remote work, cloud computing, and online services unveils unprecedented vulnerabilities and threats.
Learn more: https://hclsw.co/ftpwvz
Procuring an Application Security Testing PartnerHCLSoftware
Procuring an Application Security Testing Partner is crucial for safeguarding digital assets. An Application Security Testing Partner specializes in conducting comprehensive assessments using keywords like vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code review, and threat modeling. Their expertise ensures your applications are fortified against cyber threats, providing peace of mind in an increasingly interconnected digital landscape.
Learn More: https://hclsw.co/ftpwvz
Want to know how to secure your web apps from cyber-attacks? Looking to know the Best Web Application Security Best Practices? Check this article, we delve into six essential web application security best practices that are important for safeguarding your web applications and preserving the sanctity of your valuable data.
This article will look at common mistakes that organizations make on the path to achieving vulnerability management perfection, both in process and technology areas.
5 Challenges of Moving Applications to the CloudtCell
As businesses take the next step in transforming their organization, many struggle to handle the hurdles that come with migrating their applications to the cloud. The major issue when moving applications to the cloud is security. It seems the greatest value of what makes the cloud so attractive to app development is also what makes it so difficult to secure.
Here are 5 main problems when migrating apps to the cloud...
Complete network security protection for sme's within limited resourcesIJNSA Journal
The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive budget conscious security plan for smaller
enterprises that lacksecurity guidelines.The authors believethis paper will assist users to write an
individualized security plan. In addition to providing the top ten free or affordable tools get some sort of
semblance of security implemented, the paper also provides best practices on the topics of Authentication,
Authorization, Auditing, Firewall, Intrusion Detection & Monitoring, and Prevention. The methods
employed have been implemented at Company XYZ referenced throughout.
Ce rapport produit par WhiteHat en mai 2013 offre une vision pertinente des menaces web et des paramètres à prendre en compte pour assurer sécurité et disponibilité.
Emphasizing Value of Prioritizing AppSec Meetup 11052023.pptxlior mazor
Our technology, work processes, and activities all depend on if we trust our software to be safe and secure. Join us virtually for our upcoming "Emphasizing Value of Prioritizing AppSec" Meetup to learn how to build a cost effective application security program, implement secure coding analysis and how to manage software security risks.
Software composition analysis in business 3.pdfCiente
In contemporary development practices, it has become uncommon for organizations to exclusively craft software code from scratch when creating bespoke software applications.
10 web application security best practices for 2020developeronrents
We all know how important Web Application is in today’s business world. Web applications continue to make a huge impact in the way businesses are thought about and taken forward. But with every innovative web application developed, it is also very vital and important to keep it secured in the best possible ways from data hackers as well as numerous different types of viruses. Let us take a look at the various new options for web application security best practices, this year 2020 has, to suggest to us.
Asset Discovery in India – Redhunt LabsRedhuntLabs2
Leading Asset Discovery Company Redhunt Labs provides a variety of solutions to assist companies in India in securing their online assets and guarding against cyber threats. Our Agent less Platform NVADR has been successful for many of our customers in locating significant data leaks across publicly exposed Docker containers. NVADR has the capability to continually monitor your exposed Docker Assets from across the globe.
We also provide a Free Scan if you'd like to examine the Attack Surface of your company. Here to visit our page for more information.
40 DevSecOps Reference Architectures for you. See what tools your peers are using to scale DevSecOps and how enterprises are automating security into their DevOps pipeline. Learn what DevSecOps tools and integrations others are deploying in 2019 and where your choices stack up as you consider shifting security left.
30+ Nexus Integrations to Accelerate DevOpsSonatype
No single tool can deliver on the promise of DevOps. Instead it’s a collection of tools, easily integrated, tightly managed, and effectively automated. Learn how Nexus integrates with more DevOps tools you use everyday.
Starting and Scaling DevOps In the EnterpriseSonatype
Gary Gruver, Gruver Consulting
In my role, I get to meet lots of different companies, and I realized quickly that DevOps means different things to different people. They all want to do “DevOps” because of all the benefits they are hearing about, but they are not sure exactly what DevOps is, where to start, or how to drive improvements over time. They are hearing a lot of different great ideas about DevOps, but they struggle to get every-one to agree on a common definition and what changes they should make. It is like five blind men describing an elephant. In large orga-nizations, this lack of alignment on DevOps improvements impedes progress and leads to a lack of focus.
This session is intended to help structure and align those improvements by providing a framework that large organizations and their executives can use to understand the DevOps principles in the context of their current development processes and to gain alignment across the organization for success-ful implem
DevOps Friendly Doc Publishing for APIs & MicroservicesSonatype
Mandy Whaley, CISCO
Microservices create an explosion of internal and external APIs. These APIs need great docs. Many organizations end up with a jungle of wiki pages, swagger docs and api consoles, and maybe just a few secret documents trapped in chat room somewhere… Keeping docs updated and in sync with code can be a challenge.
We’ve been working on a project at Cisco DevNet to help solve this problem for engineering teams across Cisco. The goal is to create a forward looking developer and API doc publishing pipeline that:
Has a developer friendly editing flow
Accepts many API spec formats (Swagger, RAML, etc)
Supports long form documentation in markdown
Is CI/CD pipeline friendly so that code and docs stay in sync
Flexible enough to be used by a wide scope of teams and technologies
We have many interesting lessons learned about tooling and how to solve documentation challenges for internal and external facing APIs. We have found that solving this doc publishing flow is a key component of a building modern infrastructure. This is most definitely a culture + tech + ops + dev story, we look forward to sharing with the DevOps Days community.
The Unrealized Role of Monitoring & Alerting w/ Jason HandSonatype
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White Paper: 7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of your Applications
1. WHITEPAPER
7 Security Gaps in the
Neglected 90% of your
Applications
Introduction by Sonatype CTO Josh Corman
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7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of Your Applications
about Joshua Corman
In his capacity as CTO, Joshua researches new technologies and software development
trends to help evolve Sonatype’s product strategy. Additionally, Joshua is working with
the broader IT community as well as policy and standards bodies to improve software
development security standards and best practices.
Prior to Sonatype, Joshua served as a security researcher and executive at Akamai Tech-
nologies, The 451 Group, and IBM Internet Security Systems, among other firms. A well-
regarded innovator, he co-founded Rugged Software and IamTheCavalry to encourage
the development of new cyber security solutions in response to the world’s increasing
reliance on digital infrastructure. Joshua's unique approach to addressing cyber security
in the context of human factors and social impact has helped position him as one of the
most trusted names in IT security. He also serves as adjunct faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s
Heinz College, IANS Research, and as a Fellow at the Ponemon Institute.
Joshua received his bachelor's degree in philosophy, graduating summa cum laude, from
the University of New Hampshire.
INTRODUCTION
Software applications need to be delivered faster and across more platforms than ever. To
build high quality software in short order, we’ve seen a dramatic shift from source code to
component-based development, with open source and third party components providing
the innovation and efficiency that developers need.
Unfortunately, our dependence on components is growing faster than our ability to secure
them. These shared components are not top-of-mind when considering application risk.
Worse yet, components are increasingly the preferred attack surface in today’s applications.
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to
urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next
steps for closing this security gap.
So what’s the“neglected 90%,”why is it attractive to your adversaries and what can you do
about it? Plenty. Here are 7 key points, for starters.
Joshua Corman
Chief Technology Officer
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7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of Your Applications
In this context, we are not talking about open
source infrastructure, software or tools. We’re talking
about open source components that are used to
build today’s applications, most of which are down-
loaded from public repositories such as the (Maven)
Central Repository. After all, why create your own
web framework, or logging mechanism, when you
can turn to proven components and frameworks
from open source projects? These can be basic com-
ponents, such as the SLF4J logging framework, or a
major framework like Struts or Spring.
When considering that 80-90% of a typical appli-
cation is comprised of open source or third party
components, and 71% of these applications have
at least one critical or severe vulnerability, there is a
clear motivation to stop neglecting this risk.
What’s more, since a single component is likely to be used across many thousands of applications, an adver-
sary’s job gets even easier—and their effort multiplied—since attacking single component vulnerability can
simultaneously impact many applications across many organizations around the globe.
In response to this growing issue, the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) recently updated their
Top 10 list of the most critical security risks, stating that developers should“avoid using components with
known vulnerabilities.”
While exact statistics vary, it is widely accepted that
application security gets the smallest proportion of
an overall security budget, with vastly higher expen-
ditures made on network, data and other defenses.
In fact, application security receives less than 1 per-
cent of total security spending—yet most experts
agree that applications are now the number one
attack target.1
1
Source: The Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report
(DBIR) 2014.
As Open Source Usage
Expands, So Do the Risks
Security Budgets Are
Out of Sync with Risk
and Reality
RiskBudget
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A foundation of component governance coupled
with Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) pro-
vides the most holistic view of your application risk
and the most defensible starting points.
Together, these technologies factor for 100% of
your application, including the source code that is
written and compiled (10%) and the components
that are downloaded and assembled (90%).
Furthermore, when known to be vulnerable com-
ponents are eliminated early in the development
process, your DAST scans will yield significantly
more focused and manageable results.
Pareto’s Principle, or the 80-20 Rule, helps you manage those small things that really make the biggest differ-
ence to your results. So, in this case, instead of spending 90% of your time on 10% of your attack surface, you
can focus just 10% of your time to protect 90% of your attack surface.
Start with critical or severe component vulnerabilities, which are easy to identify and remediate. Once your
component security is underway, you can then move to SAST on the 10% of your application comprised of
source code and more efficiently manage and leverage your DAST scans.
Since software is assembled with components
coming in from a wide variety of sources, you’re
basically inheriting a software supply chain. But,
unlike mature industries like automobile manu-
facturing, you probably don’t (yet) manage or
govern this supply chain. Imagine driving a car
manufactured with parts from unknown vendors
who have no requirements for quality or security.
Your software is that car.
It’s imperative that your supplier-provided assets
are properly identified, tracked and quality-checked.
Without it, you really don’t know what’s in your
car or who built it. If a“part”is faulty, you wouldn’t
even know if you’re using that part, much less
exactly which car models might be impacted.
Pareto Principle 2.0?
(the “90/10” Rule):
Low Effort and Big Gains
You Use a Software
Supply Chain. How Well
Do You Manage It?
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Developers are happy to avoid risky components
if better options are easily available. However,
with the pressure to develop faster, it’s just not
possible for them to research if each component
is outdated or has known vulnerabilities or risky
“copyleft” license obligations.
Fixing problems (or better yet, avoiding the risks of
known bad components) early in development costs
vastly less than fixing issues later in production.
For component-based development, that means
making it easy for your developers to select the
safest component from the start, directly in the
tools that they use everyday. With decision support
built into their work environments (IDE), it is just as easy to build a safe application as a vulnerable one. If their
favorite component doesn’t meet your organization’s risk policy, developers will be guided toward a preferred
component replacement.
Since code ages more like milk than like a fine wine, risk management should be ongoing. New vulnerabilities
are frequently discovered in components previously thought to be safe, so to keep your applications from go-
ing sour, you should rely on automation to alert you when new risks are discovered in existing applications.
In this scenario, security doesn’t lag behind development. It is seamless and in-sync with development and
production as well.
Just when you thought you had a headache, it gets worse. There are often hundreds, if not thousands, of
components used by a typical development team, and each component has tens, if not hundreds of depen-
dencies as well as multiple versions.
Just like a traditional supply chain, it has become impossible to manually manage the selection, tracking and
inventorying of these supplier-provided components. Your software supply chain needs the same type of
automated visibility and management that has been a lifesaver to other industries for years. The good news is:
it costs far less and is far easier to implement than you might think.
Empower Your
Developers. They’re
Your Front Line Defense.
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In many organizations, the traditional waterfall
development and delivery approach has been re-
placed by Agile—and increasingly DevOps. This ap-
proach reduces the cycle time between the incep-
tion of an idea and delivery of that idea in reliable
software. This requires that application security is
also agile and re-thought in the context of modern
development methods, continuous integration, and
continuous delivery. If not, then application secu-
rity will be even more out of step with the pace of
development and associated risk.
And, just as decision support should be integrated
into developer tools, there should also be better
integration between application stakeholders in the
organization. A great opportunity is to do this in the context of Development Operations, known as“DevOps”,
“Rugged DevOps”or“DevOpsSec.”Leaders in the DevOps movement seek to reduce friction between develop-
ment and operations teams by focusing on business value, efficiency and velocity. For many, automating the
SDLC with built-in processes to minimize quality, security and license risk early in development is definitely a step
in the right direction. The result? A secure blanket over your neglected 90%—and trusted software that stays that
way over time.
The creation of an“open source review board”or
even a so-called“golden repository”may feel com-
forting. The reality is that, even if you believe that
every developer in every instance is using only“ap-
proved”components, the manual effort to keep that
“white list”up to date is enormous and endless.
Plus, how do you track components as they move
through the development lifecycle? And since new
vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered, how
do you track which applications are newly vulnerable?
The bottom line is that manual policies or“workflow”
efforts just can’t keep up with the volume, complex-
ity and change in the component supply chain.
The fact is, there is already a better alternative to manual policy management. One that is integrated into devel-
oper tools—and is as easy to use as a spell checker. What if you could define policies that are then automated
along the entire development lifecycle? And what if policy violations not only identified the vulnerability—but
the recommended replacement as well?
Manual Policies Just
Don’t Work in a Secure
Development Lifecycle.
Agile Development
Requires Agile Security.
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Applications have become the number one attack
target, yet less than 1% of security spending address-
es applications. And of that budget, the vast majority
addresses the code an organization writes, which
comprises only 10% of a typical application. So, there
is virtually no money being spent on the 90% of an
application that is the bulk of the exploit surface.
Furthermore, adversaries are getting smarter by the
day. With shared component vulnerabilities, the force
multiplication effect is stunning. Why launch a single
attack on a single application, when you can target a
vulnerable component and potentially compromise
thousands of applications at once?
The good news is that addressing component secu-
rity is the easiest and least expensive of all applica-
tion security methods. A little effort reduces a lot of
exploit risk. And when you begin with component
governance, easier issues with the biggest impact
can be resolved quickly while the harder and re-
maining issues can be addressed with DAST/SAST
later in development.
Sonatype’s Nexus platform applies proven sup-
ply chain best practices to the software industry so
organizations can use fewer and better components,
reduce variety and variability and track known vulner-
abilities. . Developers are empowered to choose the
better components from the start to avoid unneces-
sary risk and the costs associated with downstream
fixes. Policies can be automated through the entire
SDLC. When new vulnerabilities are discovered, you’ll
know which applications are impacted and which
components are now preferred.
When component risk is considered along with DAST
and SAST approaches, application security expands
to be more holistic and effective. Start now because
even a little component governance goes a long way.
SUMMARY
If You’re Not Using Secure Components, You’re Not Building Secure Software.
It’s Not Your Fault, But it’s Still Your Problem.
Why launch a single attack on a single application, when
you can target a vulnerable component and potentially
compromise thousands of applications at once?
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are built by assembling open source and third party components streaming in from a wide variety of public and internal
sources. While re-use is far faster than custom code, the flow of components into and through an organization remains
complex and inefficient. Sonatype’s Nexus platform applies proven supply chain principles to increase speed, efficiency
and quality by optimizing the component supply chain. Sonatype has been on the forefront of creating tools to to
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Understand your current component
usage – Use a“bill of materials”to identify
the suppliers in your“software supply chain.”
This report lists all components you use
along with any known vulnerabilities.
Design your Open Source Software (OSS)
governance to be frictionless, scalable
and automated – Your organization must
not only define your policies, but also find
practical ways to enforce them without slow-
ing down development and without encour-
aging“work-arounds.”Policies must be agile
enough to keep pace with modern develop-
ment. Strive to automate policy enforcement
and minimize drag on developers.
Enable developer decision support –
Provide information on component vulner-
abilities (and licensing risk) within the IDE
to make it easy for developers to pick the
best components from the start. By avoiding
problems early you will improve developer
productivity and reduce costs.
Provide continuous and rapid feedback –
Policies that are enforced across the entire
software life cycle ensure a secure life cycle.
And since security isn’t a point-in-time event,
continuous monitoring should be used to
alert you when you are about to use a vul-
nerable component and as new vulnerabili-
ties are discovered in components you’ve
already used.
NEXT STEPS
As you consider the role of application security in your organization, consider these four things:
For more information about any of these steps, please visit www.sonatype.com