Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform for DevOps, today announced the availability of Opsera GitCustodian. This new solution scans vulnerable data found in source code repositories (ie, Git) and alerts security and DevOps teams so they can prevent vulnerabilities from being released into production. Once vulnerabilities are found, GitCustodian automates the remediation process for any discovered secrets or other sensitive artifacts.
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“Source code vulnerabilities have the potential to cost organizations hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars a year due to breaches from cyberattackers. This is where Opsera GitCustodian comes in,” said Gilbert Martin, VP of Customer Success and Solutions at Opsera. “It scans and alerts security teams of vulnerable secrets hidden in source code repositories before it’s too late. These teams are now empowered to proactively implement secure software development lifecycle best practices through orchestrated secret governance that makes source code vulnerabilities a thing of the past.”
The “as-a-Service” trend (ie Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, etc.) is growing, and with it a movement towards ” everything as code.” However, as the code levels, complexities surround it – especially when it comes to security. Many Git users unknowingly store sensitive data (ie, secrets, passwords, certificates, keys, etc.) in source code repositories – if this data is pushed to production, it is at risk of exposed to cyberattackers. To protect this data, Opsera’s GitCustodian provides proactive visibility into source code vulnerabilities and helps security and DevOps teams address them early in the Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) process ) to ensure that sensitive data is not stored or leaked in production. Teams receive a centralized snapshot in minutes of any vulnerable secrets and other sensitive artifacts at risk in version control systems.
“Stealing credentials and secrets from source code and configuration files is a common technique used by attackers in many breaches,” said Neil Daswani, co-author of Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons For Everyone. “GitCustodian can help identify and mitigate such risks in your codebase as part of the pipelines that are automatically built and run by CI/CD which is one of Opsera’s core strengths.”
Key features and benefits of Opsera GitCustodian include:
- Highly Accurate, Comprehensive Secret Detection: Discover a wide range of secrets and other sensitive data in source code with detectors based on multiple algorithms and industry-standard profiles.
- Scan Existing Source Code Repositories: Get a centralized snapshot in minutes of any vulnerable secrets and other sensitive artifacts at risk in version control systems.
- Add Proactive Secrets Governance to Existing CI/CD Workflows: From detection to remediation to verification with integrated alerting and problem ticketing for complete incident lifecycle management. Add detection and governance gates to the software development pipeline to catch secrets and other sensitive artifacts before they are released.
- Safely Store Secrets and Keys: A built-in vault removes the friction of following best practices in managing secrets.
- Enabling Collaboration: Notify affected teams to take immediate action without changing how or where they work with flexible alerting via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira and ServiceNow integrations.
- Complete Insights and Analytics: Get a complete health and security picture of the entire lifecycle with actionable insights and compliance reporting.
Industry analysts also recognize the complexity of source code management and businesses’ need for tools to help mitigate risk. “The complexity of modern applications brings many challenges around the management of dependencies and configuration information, security tokens, username/password and other secrets,” said Jon Collins, VP of Research and Lead Analyst at GigaOM. “It’s too much to expect that developers keep on top of all potential issues, like accidentally missing a .gitignore file and publishing confidential information in Git. As well as CI/CD automation, businesses also need to use tools that can scan software code and dependencies proactively, and also prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data.”
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