Integrate Security Into the SDLC

Open Source Vulnerability Scanning

Most software projects contain thousands of external dependencies. Many of these are open source components which could contain security vulnerabilities, may have been created without security best practices, or which may have potential licensing issues once incorporated into a project.

Open source vulnerability scanning – also known as software composition analysis (SCA) – analyzes open source components, libraries, and their dependencies present in the analyzed codebase. Any detected open source artifacts are identified by their version, distribution, source, common platform enumeration (CPE), and other distinguishing characteristics.

1. Scanning in development: Developers can automatically be notified of security issues in components they are including. They can then make faster, informed decisions on how to address or avoid introducing these risks.

2. Scanning in security testing:** Any component with vulnerabilities that exceed a predefined risk threshold should raise an alert and be inspected before deployment to production. These alerts can trigger remediation activities from development teams or be reviewed and prioritized by security teams.

3. Scanning in production and pre-production:** Any new vulnerabilities or risks that enter the application after security review can be detected, alerted upon, and addressed. This includes risks from artifacts that entered the project through means other than the SDLC or CI/CD pipeline, zero-day vulnerabilities, and malware.

Benefits of DevSecOps Managed Services

1. Increased collaboration between all teams - development, security, and operations
2. Threat Modeling & Architecture reviews help eliminate security threats and Vulnerabilities at an early stage in the lifecycle
3. Achieve greater agility and speed while designing a future-proof system for scaling
4. Opportunities for quality assurance testing and automated builds wherever possible
5. Automatic inbuilt Security of Code
6. Continuous Security Enablement at all stages in the lifecycle
7. Extensive experience with most modern security implementation tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and Datadog