Many DevOps teams work proactively to meet security and compliance standards. They consider security best practices when developing software with open source components, scanning code for vulnerabilities, deploying changes, and maintaining applications and infrastructure. Security is a key feature of many of the tools they’re using, and the policies and industry standards they’re following.
According to the latest Crowdstrike report, in 2022 cloud-based exploitation increased by 95%, and there was an average eCrime breakout time of 84 minutes. Just as significantly, in 2021, the Biden administration passed an executive order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity standards. There are also upcoming laws like DORA in the European Union. So, increased cyber attacks and legislative pressures mean you need to (a) actively protect against threats and (b) prove that you are doing so.
This article is the second installment of the “Implementing Backstage” series and focuses on how to use Backstage’s core features. Backstage has an extensible plugin architecture in active development and large community support and offers simplified tool management, workflow optimization, and time-saving features. However, to reap these benefits, you need to know how to use Backstage’s core features, including its software catalog, templates, documentation, and search.
Backstage is a platform for building developer portals. Originally developed internally at Spotify, it’s now open source and available through GitHub. Backstage allows DevOps teams to create a single-source, centralized web application for sharing and finding software (through the software catalog feature), as well as templates and documentation.
If you’re delivering software in a regulated environment, or deploying to a critical application or device, ensuring the security of your software code and dependencies is essential. One of the most popular tools for achieving this is Snyk, which gives developers the ability to find and fix vulnerabilities as part of their development workflow.
In this short blog, you will learn how to set up Kosli Notifications so your whole team can stay on top of environment changes and compliance events in real time. 🚀 In fast-paced technology landscapes, understanding how systems are changing is crucial. Developers, DevOps/Platform/SRE teams, security personnel, and management all need this information to manage operational risk, resolve incidents, and just for basic communication with each other.
Have you ever needed to provide proof that a critical business process actually took place? It’s a painful process involving all kinds of paperwork, but it’s the reality for many organizations working in highly regulated industries. For these companies, records need to be kept for actions like the provisioning of user accounts and access to sensitive records. It’s necessary, but it’s manual and time-consuming work.
In this post you’ll learn how Kosli’s Change Forensics gives DevOps, Platform, and Site Reliability Engineers the ability to rapidly pinpoint and understand changes and events in their infrastructure and applications, and get to the cause(s) of an incident quickly.
In an ideal world CI pipelines would never fail and deployments would be easy to navigate. The reality is that the journey from commit to production can fail in subtle ways that can be hard to understand. And this problem is multiplied by the number of pipelines in your system.
