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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO

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. How did the term shift-left security originate? Why is shift-left security important in cybersecurity?

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Accelerate Your SDLC With DevSecOps

DevOps.com

DevOps has been the answer to rising software development complexity, but the granularity and multiplicity of actors, technologies and environments brings added security requirements. Moving to DevSecOps will not only help with these requirements but also accelerate the software development life cycle (SDLC).

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls on Software Makers To Use Memory Safe Languages, as OpenSSF Issues Secure Software Principles

Tenable

Meanwhile, the OpenSSF published 10 key principles for secure software development. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a clarion call for software makers to use so-called “memory safe” programming languages. Plus, malware used in fake browser-update attacks ballooned in Q3. And much more!

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The Ticking Supply Chain Attack Bomb of Exposed Kubernetes Secrets

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers found that the exposed Kubernetes secrets of hundreds of organizations and open-source projects allow access to sensitive environments in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and open a severe supply chain attack threat.

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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

Security engineer. Software engineers help clients determine their security needs and coordinate software installations on their computers and laptops. Software development life cycle (SDLC). As a software engineer, the software development life cycle (SDLC) is relatively insignificant. Customer relationship manager.

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Code signing: securing against supply chain vulnerabilities

CircleCI

This collection of agents and actors involved in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is called the software supply chain. Because you are working with several moving parts — including open source material, APIs, and so on — it is crucial to know just how secure each component of your software supply chain is.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

Tenable

14 | DevOps team culture is key for supply chain security | SecOps gets more challenging as attack surface expands | Weak credentials hurt cloud security | Incident responders grapple with stress | Security spending grows | And much more! . Topics that are top of mind for the week ending Oct.