Static analysis is a type of debugging that identifies defects without running the code. Static analysis tools can be especially useful for enforcing security policies by analyzing code for security vulnerabilities early in the development process, allowing teams to rapidly address potential issues and conform to best practices. R2C has developed a fast, open-source static The post Semgrep: Modern Static Analysis with Isaac Evans appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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Semgrep: Modern Static Analysis with Isaac Evans

Security is more important than ever, especially in regulated fields such as healthcare and financial services. Developers working in highly regulated industries often spend considerable time building tooling to help improve compliance and pass security audits. While the core of many security workflows is similar, each industry and each organization may have its own idiosyncratic The post Sym: Security Workflows with Yasyf Mohamedali appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Sym: Security Workflows with Yasyf Mohamedali

Network discovery allows enterprises to identify what devices are on their network. These devices can include smartphones, servers, desktop computers, and tablets. Being able to index the devices on a network is crucial to figuring out the security profile of that network. HD Moore is a founder of Rumble Networks, a company focused on network The post Network Discovery with HD Moore appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Network Discovery with HD Moore

Osquery is a tool for providing visibility into operating system endpoints. It is a flexible tool developed originally at Facebook. Ganesh Pai is the founder of Uptycs, a company that uses Osquery to find threats and malicious activity occurring across nodes. Ganesh joins the show to talk about Osquery usage and his work on Uptycs. The post Osquery with Ganesh Pai appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Osquery with Ganesh Pai

Anduril is a technology defense company with a focus on drones, computer vision, and other problems related to national security. It is a full-stack company that builds its own hardware and software, which leads to a great many interesting questions about cloud services, engineering workflows, and management. Gokul Subramanian is an engineer at Anduril, and The post Anduril Engineering with Gokul Subramanian appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Anduril Engineering with Gokul Subramanian

Logs are the source of truth. If a company is sufficiently instrumented, the logging data that streams off of the internal infrastructure can be refined to tell a comprehensive story for what is changing across that infrastructure in real time. This includes logins, permissions changes, other events that could signal a potential security compromise. Datadog The post Security Monitoring with Marc Tremsal appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Security Monitoring with Marc Tremsal

A large software company such as Dropbox is at a constant risk of security breaches. These security breaches can take the form of social engineering attacks, network breaches, and other malicious adversarial behavior. This behavior can be surfaced by analyzing collections of log data. Log-based threat response is not a new technique. But how should The post Grapl: Graph-Based Detection and Response with Colin O’Brien appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Grapl: Graph-Based Detection and Response with Colin O’Brien

Infrastructure-as-code tools are used to define the architecture of software systems. Common infrastructure-as-code tools include Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.  When infrastructure is defined as code, we can use static analysis tools to analyze that code for configuration mistakes, just as we could analyze a programming language with traditional static analysis tools. When a developer writes The post Static Analysis for Infrastructure with Guy Eisenkot appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Static Analysis for Infrastructure with Guy Eisenkot

Zoom video chat has become an indispensable part of our lives. In a crowded market of video conferencing apps, Zoom managed to build a product that performs better than the competition, scaling with high quality to hundreds of meeting participants, and millions of concurrent users. Zoom’s rapid growth in user adoption came from its focus The post Zoom Vulnerabilities with Patrick Wardle appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Zoom Vulnerabilities with Patrick Wardle

Large software companies have lots of users, and the activity from those users results in high volumes of traffic. These companies also have a large surface area across the enterprise.  There are hundreds of services and databases that are fulfilling user requests. As these requests enter the infrastructure of the enterprise, the requests travel through The post Cloud Log Analysis with Jack Naglieri appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cloud Log Analysis with Jack Naglieri

The software supply chain includes cloud infrastructure, on-prem proprietary solutions, APIs, programming languages, networking products, and open source software.  Each of these software categories has its own security vulnerabilities, and each category has tools that can help protect a company from attackers that are trying to exploit known vulnerabilities. As open source software has grown The post Snyk: Open Source Security with Guy Podjarny appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Snyk: Open Source Security with Guy Podjarny

The modern software supply chain contains many different points of distribution: JavaScript frameworks, npm modules, Docker containers, open source repositories, cloud providers, on-prem firmware, IoT, networking proxies, and so much more. With so much attack surface, securing a large enterprise is an uphill battle. Jeff Williams is the CTO at Contrast Security, a company that The post Security Monitoring with Jeff Williams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Security Monitoring with Jeff Williams

A Kubernetes instance occupies a wide footprint of multiple servers, creating an appealing target to an attacker, due to its access to a large pool of compute resources. A common attack against an exposed Kubernetes cluster is to take it over for the purposes of mining cryptocurrency. Thus it is important to keep a cluster The post Container Platform Security with Maya Kaczorowski appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Container Platform Security with Maya Kaczorowski

Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 Steve Herrod was the CTO at VMware and now works as a managing director at General Catalyst, where he focuses on investments relating to security. Large enterprises are difficult to secure. An enterprise The post Security Businesses with Steve Herrod appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Security Businesses with Steve Herrod

Computational integrity is a property that is required for financial transactions on the Internet. Computational integrity means that the output of a certain computation is correct. If I deposit money into my bank, my bank sends me a number that represents the new balance in my account. I assume that the number they have sent The post StarkWare: Transparent Computational Integrity with Eli Ben Sasson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

StarkWare: Transparent Computational Integrity with Eli Ben Sasson

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