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What Are Security Guardrails? Why Do They Matter to Your AppSec Program?

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The wide adoption of cloud-native applications and infrastructure has propelled DevOps and a self-service culture enabling developers to go from code to cloud in hours. Security teams are entirely unprepared to govern and secure the modern SDLC in this agile world. What are security guardrails? What are security guardrails?

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The DevSecOps Lifecycle: How to Automate Security in Software Development

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This includes identifying security requirements, defining security policies , and selecting the appropriate security testing tools. However, the DevSecOps lifecycle follows the DevOps approach, which shifted the responsibility of deploying the application from operations teams to development teams.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Shifting security left in your SDLC program is a priority that executives should be giving their focus to.

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5 Ways to Prevent Secret Sprawl

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In the software development life cycle (SDLC), 85% of leaking secrets come from developers sharing information on public personal accounts. This goes to show just how important it is to have the proper training, procedures, and tools in place when it comes to combatting secret sprawl and leaks in your SDLC.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

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There are clearly tremendous tools in this space like GitHub Co-Pilot that developers can use to enhance and augment their productivity,” he says. An overall better measurement of how effective developers are is if we can get tools and experiences in our customers’ hands quicker, which will have an overall greater benefit,” he says.

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Software is Infrastructure

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In addition, even the best tools required organizational effort to employ as the technique suffers from a fundamental issue of False Positives (the mis-identification of issues which are in fact _not_ defects). These tools generally work on fully developed/deployed applications which fundamentally shifts them rightmost in the SDLC.

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FuzzCon 2021 Addresses Ease-of-Use in Fuzz Testing

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The advent of CI/CD, DevOps, and Digital Transformation has rendered application security testing 1.0 These tools base their checkers and test cases on already known information -- CWEs and/or CVEs. We host FuzzCon because we believe in the importance of proliferating fuzz testing to every organization.

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