?? DevSecOps Weekly #374: Unlocking Cloud Security Potential: Interoperability, Automation, and AI-Driven Solutions

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How to Automate Security Testing in Your CI/CD Pipeline?

How do you actually go about automating security testing in your CI/CD pipeline? It's all about setting up the right tools and processes.

• Step 1: Choose a security testing tool that can scan for different types of vulnerabilities.
• Step 2: Define the security testing scenarios based on the vulnerabilities you want to address.
• Step 3: Integrate the security testing tool into the CI/CD pipeline at the appropriate stage.
• Step 4: Configure the security testing tool with the necessary inputs and settings.
• Step 5: Analyze the security testing results to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities.

How interoperability unlocks cloud security potential

Cloud migration drives the need for interoperability among identity systems. Cloud Security Architects and IT Decision-Makers face a challenge: making diverse components work seamlessly together. The key lies in understanding interoperability, composability, and identity fabric. Implementing these concepts unlocks a positive impact on your organization's digital identity landscape.

Here are the key takeaways:

• Interoperability enables efficient communication between identity systems through SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, DIDs, VCs, and SCIM.
• Composability combines components to create new systems or processes.
• Identity management interoperability presents challenges: competing standards, fragmentation, and usability. Solutions require a holistic approach.
• An identity fabric improves interoperability by standardizing protocols, centralizing management, and supporting new technologies.
• Interoperability enables easy swapping of identity services, transition to passwordless authentication, and switching between IDPs.

How to Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks in Your CI/CD Pipeline

The rise in digital demands has led to an increase in the frequency of software releases, with some companies deploying code thousands of times per day.

However, the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) process has not historically been treated with the same security forethought. As a result, new CI/CD vulnerabilities have emerged, and companies need to take a DevSecOps approach to mitigate risks.

The OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks provide an overview of the most common vulnerabilities, including:

• Insufficient Flow Control Mechanisms
• Inadequate Identity and Access Management
• Dependency Chain Abuse
• Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE)
• Insufficient PBAC (Pipeline-Based Access Controls)
• Insufficient Credential Hygiene
• Insecure System Configuration
• Ungoverned Usage of 3rd-Party Services
• Improper Artifact Integrity Validation
• Insufficient Logging and Visibility

To reduce these risks, companies should map their surface area, review dependencies, implement access controls, and encourage secure coding practices. Additional strategies should include code signing, artifact verification, and configuration drift detection.

Are CI/CD pipelines bursting at the seams?

CI/CD pipelines have evolved to handle more tasks, such as security and testing, and the need for continuous integration has pushed the pipeline to expand.

Cloud native CI/CD has made adopting new processes simpler due to its repeatable nature, but also comes with heightened risks. The addition of more tasks may lead to unforeseen bottlenecks, causing organizations to struggle to accelerate delivery.

Balancing risk and reward is key to a successful CI/CD pipeline, and AI technology may play a role in finding this balance.

How to counter the most risky cloud computing threats?

Kerem Gülen discusses the top 14 security issues in cloud computing and provides solutions to mitigate these risks, emphasizing the need for organizations to address security concerns and protect their sensitive data in the cloud.

The top 14 security issues in cloud computing include:

• Cloud defense breaches
• Vulnerable gateways
• Data sharing risks
• Insider threats
• Lack of clear visibility
• Cyberattacks
• DoS attacks
• Data leakage hazards
• Data privacy

???5 ways AI-driven patch management is driving the future of cybersecurity

Cybersecurity vendors are fast-tracking risk-based vulnerability management, AI, and machine learning to keep patch management current.

Here are the key takeaways:

• Patch management approaches that aren't data-driven are vulnerable to breaches.
• Attackers are increasingly weaponizing old vulnerabilities, making manual patch management insufficient.
• Legacy patch management systems are being replaced by risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) and AI-based patch management.
• AI-driven patch management is shaking up cybersecurity by enabling real-time anomaly detection and prediction, risk-scoring algorithms, machine learning for real-time patch intelligence, automating remediation decisions, and contextual understanding of endpoint assets and identities.
• Organizations must use AI to manage entire lifecycles and gain greater contextual intelligence.

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Aqua Security releases Real-Time CSPM to tackle multi-cloud security risks

Cloud-native security vendor Aqua Security has launched Real-Time CSPM, a cloud security posture management system capable of pinpointing threats that evade detection and reducing noise so security can focus on the most significant risks.

The solution enables security teams to match correlated findings throughout multi-cloud environments, deny duplication and see the context within code repositories. Real-time cloud visibility in the single platform eliminates the risks of "point-in-time" scanning, which could raise vulnerability levels.

To set priorities, CSPM provides smarter insights by identifying authentic cloud risks and applying analytics.

Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories

Push protection feature in GitHub Advanced Security has prevented?17,000?potential secret leaks, saving over?95,000?hours of remediation. Push protection is now generally available for private repositories with a GitHub Advanced Security license.

• Push protection is made free for all public repositories to help developers secure their code proactively.
• It scans for identifiable secrets before they are pushed and provides remediation guidance to developers.
• It creates a frictionless developer experience by only blocking secrets with low false positive rates.
• Developers can bypass push protection by providing a reason, and administrators receive alerts and can audit bypasses.
• Enabling push protection can be done in the "Code security and analysis" settings in GitHub.

Rubrik makes ransomware a focus for its cloud backup SaaS

Data protection and security specialist Rubrik has launched new updates to its Rubrik Security Cloud SaaS platform designed to help detect ransomware threats.

• The added capabilities will also identify vulnerable users and offer data protection for extra enterprise sources such as AWS S3.
• The company - which recently rebranded as a security provider - hopes the new features will help it expand its user base to IT ops staff, which it sees as the next key market in data backup and security.
• The move adds additional eyes to backup data to help eliminate Personal Identifiable Information sources before they leak and identify ransomware payloads.

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jdu2600/Etw-SyscallMonitor

Monitors ETW for security-relevant syscalls maintaining the set called by each unique process.

bitfront-se/bytesafe-ce

Bytesafe Community Edition is a security platform that protects organizations from open source software supply chain attacks.

aswinnnn/pyscan

Python dependency vulnerability scanner, written in Rust.

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