Building Security into DevOps

Looking for an efficient and effective way to test your applications for security vulnerabilities? Look no further than Polaris Software Integrity Platform, the cloud-based application security testing solution optimized for the needs of development and DevSecOps teams. With Polaris, developers can easily onboard and begin scanning their code in just a matter of minutes, while security teams can effortlessly track and manage testing activities and risks across hundreds or even thousands of applications.

Listen to this conversation with Matias Madou, Co-Founder Secure Code Warrior on adding the Sec into DevSecOps and why upskilling your security and development teams is critical.

Listen as Taylor and Buu talk about how the speed of application releases impacts application security and what a security utopia could look like.

DevOps is terrific for delivering new innovative applications to the market. But the newer trend of “shift left, shift right, shift everywhere” has increased the pressure on developers and DevOps engineers to add application security (AppSec) testing and tooling management in CI/CD pipelines to their already long list of responsibilities.

With “shift everywhere,” existing DevSecOps implementations have to evolve to manage AppSec risk without impeding the agility and frequency of software delivery. The good news is, it can be done.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

- How “shift everywhere” is impacting DevSecOps
- What are its implementation challenges?
- How to build and execute a comprehensive AppSec program to address these challenges
- Recent DevSecOps success stories

Tanya Janaca, a keynote speaker at the 2023 RSA Conference, addresses some of the worst
DevSecOps practices she has witnessed while working in IT for over 25 years.

AppSec and AppSec teams have evolved over the last decade to keep pace with the speed and demands of the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. Clint Gibler, head of security research at Semgrep, discusses some of these changes, as well as takeaways for modern, forward-thinking security teams.

Tracking the right metrics is essential in DevSecOps as it helps measure the effectiveness of your security program. Listen as Taylor and Clint, discuss how teams can raise their security bar with useful measurement metrics, as well as how to identify high ROI security investments for their DevSecOps program.

Even software with a solid architecture and design can harbor vulnerabilities, whether due to mistakes or shortcuts. But limited security staff don’t have the resources to perform code reviews and provide remediation guidance on the entire application portfolio. Static analysis, also known as static application security testing (SAST), is an automated way to find bugs, back doors, and other code-based vulnerabilities so the team can mitigate those risks.

First, though, you must choose a static analysis model that fits your needs. You might have questions such as these:
- How do I manage false positives?
- How do I triage the results?
- What happens to new issues identified?
- My scan takes hours to complete. How can I use this tool in my DevSecOps pipeline?
- What is a “baseline scan”?

Join us as we walk you through the challenges and benefits of integrating a SAST tool into your DevSecOps pipeline and how we’ve helped other organizations with this process.

Digital transformation initiatives are forcing development teams to make tough decisions. They have to make tradeoffs between feature velocity and managing application security risk. Developers may lack the knowledge to address the risks they’re aware of, and adding security tools often adds friction to their workflows. A new approach is needed to meet the demands of modern application development.

Join us for this webcast with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to learn about:

- How DevOps and automation are changing application security landscape
- What challenges teams face when automating their AST tools
- How a new approach to DevSecOps can address these challenges
- What your team can do to make your DevSecOps initiative successful

DevSecOps is a trending practice in application security that involves introducing security earlier in the software development life cycle. It expands the collaboration between development and operations teams to integrate security teams in the software delivery cycle.

DevSecOps needs to be risk-based like your application risk indicator. It needs to be able to optimize security testing based on your policies. It should be efficient so not every code change requires a full security analysis.

In this talk, you will learn
• Actionable insights into what DevSecOps is
• What DevSecOps is not
• How DevSecOps works from build to production

As development technologies become more fast-paced, modular, and automated, the tools and practices used to secure the software that passes through these pipelines must evolve. While many application security testing (AST) tools can be integrated into pipelines, teams often struggle with complexity, performance, and noisy results. Injecting security into DevOps without sacrificing efficiency requires a concerted approach focusing on:

- Integration and automation that minimizes impediments, running necessary tests at appropriate times
- Remediation of prioritized risks aligned to business needs
- AppSec-enabled developers equipped with what they need to secure code as they write it
- Modular AST that can be employed based on the software being tested

You’ve automated security tooling in development pipelines and your organization has moved to agile practices, but you are still not experiencing the DevSecOps promise land you were told about.

The three pillars of DevSecOps are people, process, and technology. Have you invested enough into your people? Without a bridge between the security and the development teams, all your hard work can get stuck in mud.

A Security Champions program can help enable your teams reduce process friction and ensure successful adoption of security within developers’ daily work. This talk will address

• Common challenges organizations experience
• Ways a Security Champions program can help
• Getting started with building your Security Champions program

With modern processes, software developers can quickly build and release applications by deploying them to the cloud. But security teams are struggling to keep pace. Shifting security left can help, but it’s easier said than done.

Join this live Synopsys webinar to understand the latest Enterprise Strategy Research Group (ESG) research on shifting security left to create scalable, developer-centric supply chain security solutions. We’ll cover:

• Current conditions for incorporating security into developer workflows
• The challenges faced with faster cloud-native development lifecycles
• Strategies and solutions for securing software without sacrificing speed

To build security into DevOps and achieve true DevSecOps, organizations need to manage AppSec workflows without hindering speed and flexibility. But how do you get there?

Join this live Synopsys webinar to learn how to inject security into DevOps without sacrificing efficiency. We’ll cover how to:

• Secure code as fast as it’s written
• Run the right tests at the right time
• Automate security testing to focus on what matters

To build security into DevOps and achieve true DevSecOps, organizations need to manage AppSec workflows without hindering speed and flexibility. But how do you get there?

Join this live Synopsys webinar to learn how to inject security into DevOps without sacrificing efficiency. We’ll cover how to:

• Secure code as fast as it’s written
• Run the right tests at the right time
• Automate security testing to focus on what matters

The economic downturn is impacting organizations, and application security is not exempt from budget pressures. You may need to make some difficult choices on application security spending that doesn’t add risk to the business. Do you have a plan in place today?

Join us for this Synopsys webinar to get insight into the latest application security risks and where budget trade-offs can be made. We’ll cover:

• Trends in AppSec in challenging times
• Factors when considering cloud vs on-prem solutions
• Trade-offs between platform and best-of-breed AppSec approaches

Securing today's applications requires a new approach.

You need to deliver new applications and API’s, fast. Unfortunately, this “need for speed” can lead to vulnerabilities in software code. Once discovered in production, so begins the process by which SecOps and DevOps work to fix the vulnerabilities in runtime applications. Unfortunately, SecOps and DevOps teams have historically operated independently, establishing their own processes, tools and KPI’s which can create roadblocks.

For an organization to truly develop and deploy secure applications, they need to move beyond traditional methodologies and adopt a new approach – one that bridges the gap between security operations and development.

Join Synopsys and partners as we discuss how the Modern AppSec Framework delivers a functional plan your organizations can use to develop and deliver secure applications, regardless of where you are in your security or application development journey.

Register now to learn how the Modern AppSec Framework can take your application security program to the next level.

Security is the result of implementing the tools, personnel, and insight necessary to make informed decisions to mitigate risks within the software you create and the assets you consume through the software supply chain. While this process can be elaborate, rapid releases and CI/CD methodologies require that AppSec move at the speed of DevOps.

Achieving this is only possible with integrated controls and mechanisms to detect, prioritize, and address security issues at every stage in the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines. But how do you get there?

Join us as we recommend ways to establish security within DevOps without sacrificing efficiency. We’ll discuss:
- Pitfalls that can derail an organization’s AppSec initiative
- Strategies for overcoming obstacles to efficient, effective DevSecOps
- Recommendations for realizing integrated DevSecOps at scale

Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a central component for many organizations’ AppSec programs. But legacy DAST tools can be too slow and difficult to use in fast-paced development environments. Our new fAST Dynamic technology enables DevOps teams to scan their applications quickly and accurately, eliminating the need for time-consuming configuration and triage efforts.

Join us to see how fAST Dynamic

- Allows users without extensive technical knowledge easily initiate scans
- Navigates and analyzes web apps without requiring specialized expertise
- Prioritizes quality or quantity of findings

fAST Dynamic provides a self-serve, straightforward, and efficient dynamic testing solution for organizations aiming to secure their web applications without slowing their development pace.

The development process is now so elaborate, distributed, and fast-moving that it’s difficult for enterprises to fully understand and manage effectively, much less defend against attacks. Complex projects may require input from multiple teams that are often unaware of one another’s activities. They may use third-party code and open source that hasn’t been thoroughly vetted. And they may be written using automated tools and AI, which may not employ security best practices or unknowingly propagate weak or vulnerable code.

Join experts from SANS and Synopsys as they discuss why a new approach to DevOps security is required—one that applies continuous testing to continuous development so that threats and vulnerabilities can be identified and mitigated across every step of the development process.

Register today and be among the first to receive the associated whitepaper written by Chris Edmundson.

Sponsored by Synopsys

Security issues in DevOps often arise due to conflicting aims between developers and security professionals, with developers aiming for rapid product pipeline completion and security teams focusing on preventing vulnerabilities.

How do we achieve this in the real world? How can organizations remove complexity, reduce costs, and improve scalability without compromising security?

Polaris Software Integrity Platform® offers a full suite of AppSec solutions from SAST, SCA to DAST. In this webinar, explore our latest addition Polaris fAST Dynamic, tailored for modern web applications.

We will also showcase Polaris Assist, an AI-powered application security assistant on the Polaris platform. Polaris Assist combines decades of real-world insights with a powerful large language model (LLM) that gives security and development teams easy-to-understand summaries of detected vulnerabilities and code fix recommendations to help them build secure software faster.

Join us and learn what the next generation of easy, fast, and automated application security can do to seamlessly integrate with any environment your teams are working in.

Securing software takes teamwork—a unified approach from development through testing and into production. But each team has a distinct set of requirements and workflows that need to align to realize a concerted push for security. And while developers influence risk posture, they are often not trained in or focused on software security practices.

How can you make the effort that developers and DevOps teams are already putting in more valuable to the business? What's the best way to cultivate highly security-conscious developers so your software becomes more secure over time? Is there a way to derive tangible benefits for the business, the team, and the individual?

Join us as we break down a five-step process with real-world applicability. Topics include

• The critical distinction between developers' security awareness and their security capability
• Mechanisms to automate risk detection and accelerate remediation across the pipeline, including at the developer desktop
• How to establish security gates in DevOps pipelines in a way that doesn't derail development or lead to missed shipping deadlines
• How to create a DevSecOps initiative that can evolve with the business and enable developers to sustain security requirements as part of their day-to-day
• Ways to maximize security's value to the business and its customers

This year’s DevSecOps Report defines a vivid image of organizations’ journey to secure their software development pipelines, with intriguing conclusions about challenges, success factors, and risk exposure across industries and maturities. Integrating security controls across the development lifecycle and CI pipelines establishes mechanisms for rapid risk detection, accelerated remediation, and automated security gates. But aligning development, AppSec, and DevOps teams to realize a vision for secure DevOps requires a clear strategy.

Join us as we examine the key findings from the Synopsys 2023 DevSecOps Survey and discuss:

• The state of DevSecOps across roles and technologies
• What a maturing DevSecOps program looks like and which tools and practices foster growth
• Recommendations for how to integrate application security without impeding DevOps

Register today.

This year’s DevSecOps Report defines a vivid image of organizations’ journey to secure their software development pipelines, with intriguing conclusions about challenges, success factors, and risk exposure across industries and maturities. Integrating security controls across the development lifecycle and CI pipelines establishes mechanisms for rapid risk detection, accelerated remediation, and automated security gates. But aligning development, AppSec, and DevOps teams to realize a vision for secure DevOps requires a clear strategy.

Join us as we examine the key findings from the Synopsys 2023 DevSecOps Survey and discuss:

• The state of DevSecOps across roles and technologies
• What a maturing DevSecOps program looks like and which tools and practices foster growth
• Recommendations for how to integrate application security without impeding DevOps

Register today.

Organizations continue moving their business applications and services to the cloud. With this shift, you need solutions that can keep up with your development, deployment, and testing needs without breaking the bank. Moving to cloud-based application security testing (AST) solutions has often meant having to choose between breadth, ease-of-use, and scalability. That changes now.

Polaris® Software Integrity Platform provides all the benefits of a cloud-based solution without having to make compromises on the breadth, depth, or scale of their testing. In this webinar, we’ll give you a tour of the future of AppSec and discuss how you can

- Embed continuous security in your development, QA, and DevOps workflows
- Manage security testing across teams, applications, and scan types
- Gain a comprehensive view into your portfolio and project AppSec risks

In January, the EU published the final version of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). While this won't come into force until late 2026, there are still actions you can take.

The good news is most of what's required is already part of a mature modern AppSec programme.

In this session we’ll cover some of what DevSecOps and product security teams should be planning for to address CRA, with lessons drawn from efforts present in highly regulated spaces in other jurisdictions.