Simple Vulnerability Remediation Collaboration with InsightVM

Many security groups today use ticketing systems that were originally designed for IT or developers, and are usually ill-suited to their vulnerability management needs. Even more commonly, teams simply rely on spreadsheets and unwieldy reports. On the other end of the spectrum, some security team...

Multi Purpose DevOps Security Auditing Tool: DevAudit

Multi Purpose DevOps Security Auditing Tool DevAudit is an open-source, cross-platform, multi-purpose security auditing tool targeted at developers and DevOps practitioners that detects security vulnerabilities at multiple levels of the solution stack. DevAudit provides a wide array of auditing...

DevOps, Automation, Security and Compliance

Phew, the title of this post alone sounds like it could be quite a lot to deal with! So what is DevOps? DevOps is simply the blending of infrastructure operations processes and software development to enable faster changes to business applications/technology. These processes share a lot of ideolo...

Ruggedization Framework For Security Testing: Gauntlt

Gauntlt is a ruggedization framework that is enables security testing that is usable by devs, ops and security. Gauntlt provides hooks to a variety of security tools and puts them within reach of security, dev and ops teams to collaborate to build rugged software. It is built to facilitate testin...

Hackers and Developers Need to Hug it Out

The divide between developers and hackers is real. So, apparently, is the effort to bring them together and make them play nicely. “It’s not just a knowledge gap, but an empathy gap,” said I Am The Cavalry founder Josh Corman during a panel discussion at last week’s RSA Conference. “One common...

Etsy Feature Flags Keep Marketplace Online and Secure

BOSTON – Etsy is one of the Web’s biggest marketplaces. Its developers may be one of Web’s busiest teams. Proudly, the vintage and homemade goods online store, will push code to production upwards of 50 times a day. And, according to Kenneth Lee, senior product security engineer, they do so with...

DevOps Integration Key to Avoiding Pre-Ordained Security Failures

BOSTON – Downstream is where you live today as a security person. If Gene Kim has his way, you’ll be inline soon enough. Kim’s keynote today at Source Boston 2013 took listeners on a deep dive of the integration of development and IT operations and helped map out how organizations may be able to...

The Novel Practice of DevOps Stars in The Phoenix Project

After a long 2.5 years Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, the authors of the awesome Visible Ops series, have just launched their latest book, The Phoenix Project. I was fortunate enough to get to read some early drafts, so I am extra excited that it is finally shipping. When Gene first...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation / Azure DevOps Server Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login-based detection of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation / Azure DevOps Server. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...