DEVOPS SECURITY BLOG

This is an article about washing dishes. This is also an article about DevOps, but mostly it’s about washing dishes….

Over the past decade, my career has evolved from Development to DevOps and most recently to DevSecOps. DevSecOps is the result of organizations…

If you are reading this, you probably got sucked into watching Game of Thrones when it first aired on HBO…

When talking about increasing development velocity for your teams, containers are at the forefront of the conversation on the new…

The Application Developer Access Dilemma As application developers, we need secure access to resources – such as databases, SSH servers,…

In this article, we’re going to talk about the problems surrounding authorization for your AWS account. We’ll define what those…

The DevOps culture shift and the move to continuous integration and deployment have required different tooling and utilities than previous…

Introduction KubeCon is the premiere conference for the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities. Every year it is held jointly with CloudNativeCon,…

It’s not an overstatement that in today’s world, it’s dangerous to expose software services to the public without robust security…

Before the dotcom bubble bust in the early 2000’s, “irrational exuberance” drove stock valuations for internet companies that offered free…

2015 wasn’t very long ago, but when we look at significant events in computing, that was the year that the…

What is Terraform? Terraform is a tool for managing infrastructure as code.  You define your architecture and software setup once,…

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is what allows us to take the power of computing beyond desktops, servers, and…

Back when I first became a programmer, it was a common practice to include database credentials right in the code…

This integration allows Terraform users to leverage Conjur’s advanced non-human access control capabilities such as robust secrets management, tamper resistant...

Scrum Standups: A Refresher Engineers working in teams that use Scrum should be familiar with the format of a daily...

Kubernetes permissions are built with role-based access controls (RBAC), which open up potential risks and need to be carefully controlled. ...

Over the past few years, whether you’re a developer, a system administrator, or a security professional, your world has changed a...

I had the pleasure of recently eating dinner at Kitchen Market, a contemporary fusion restaurant in Tel Aviv’s port Namal....

I was really excited to attend the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Kubernetes conference in Seattle. I...

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The last decade has been an exciting time for the tech industry, with the advent of collaborative business practices like...

Ansible is an excellent tool for automating procedures across multiple machines. To do this, it uses multiple SSH connections to…

At CyberArk, code reviews are a part of daily life. Getting input from peers is essential to maintaining high code...

If your organization has been successful since before containers were a thing, then you probably already have a mix of...

CyberArk is incredibly pleased to announce the beta release of a new open source project, Secretless Broker. Secretless Broker makes...

CyberArk Conjur Open Source is now available as a Kubernetes application in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. The new...

I’ve recently been working with secrets.yml files that point to different secrets for different environments, and I wanted to share...

  The Secret Zero Problem I have talked to a number of security conscious professionals across a wide range of...

With the rise of Go, cross-compiling platform agnostic code has become more accessible than ever. Building a Windows binary of...

Fast software is satisfying to use, less costly to operate, and responds better to scale. Yet trying to improve the...

Buzz about Kubernetes is everywhere, and plenty of large organizations have adopted it. But what about smaller organizations? Is the...

If you think you're hearing about a company getting hacked almost every day, that's because you're correct: there were over...

Pulling at a loose thread One day I noticed an inconsistency as I was joining together lists of words. Consider...

  “The great thing about software and servers is they always work as expected.” – Said no one, ever When…

Containerization has taken the technology world by storm. Docker emerged as the de-facto leader in the base technology making it all possible. Because containerization necessitates consistency throughout your infrastructure, even...

Challenge Conjur is built to allow you to control access to your critical systems. This makes Conjur a critical security...

One of the biggest challenges in containerized environments like Kubernetes is the secure distribution of credentials and other secrets needed...

Martin Fowler’s popular article on microservices contains this advice: Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building...

This is the sixth and final blog post in a series discussing how high-performing DevOps teams build secure systems at scale….

In the dynamic world of containers there are challenges around providing secrets needed for a containerized workflow without hurting the...

The Conjur team spends a lot of time thinking about security policies. We create them regularly for our own operations...

This is the fifth blog post in a series discussing how high-performing DevOps teams build secure systems at scale. If…

  Configuring servers by hand is a costly and error-prone endeavor that increases in difficulty as the number of servers…

  At their San Francisco Summit today, Amazon released AWS Secrets Manager. It’s a native AWS service that simplifies the...

  If this article is the first time you’re hearing about CyberArk Conjur, you’ll probably want to read some of…

  How would you assess your team’s current cyber security level within your organization? If you’re like most, your team...

  Managing the SSH keys Ansible uses to connect to remote machines can be challenging. Placing keys on the Ansible…

  This is the fourth blog post in a series discussing how high-performing DevOps teams build secure systems at scale….

We are excited to announce the release of a new integration between Conjur and Cloud Foundry (CF). Cloud Foundry users...

  This is the first blog post in a series focusing on DevOps security workflows with Conjur. Check back for…

  What happened at Tesla? Tesla’s Amazon cloud accounts were breached recently by hackers who put the stolen servers to...

  Dr. Frankenstein’s monster is one of the most hated and misunderstood monsters of all time. Frankenstein brought his creation…

  This is the third blog post in a series discussing how high-performing DevOps teams build secure systems at scale….

  This is the second blog post in a series discussing how high-performing DevOps teams build secure systems at scale….

  Even if you’ve never heard of Jenkins, you might be benefiting from it already: many companies and open source...

This is the first installment in a series of blog posts on this topic. Years have passed since the software…

  Our Jenkins cluster had become a paralyzing mass of jobs, executor dependencies, and general complexity, not what you want...

We know it takes a lot to get a secure cloud automation project into production. Every day we are helping...