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Bolstering Snyk's developer security platform in 2022

2022 was another record-breaking year for the Snyk platform. Helping an ever-growing number of customers find and fix issues across all the components making up their applications, the Snyk platform enabled over 2,500 customers during 2022 to import over 6.7 million projects, execute over 3 billion tests, and fix over 5 million issues!

Creating AWS security efficiencies in IT

As we enter 2023, both security and digital transformation efforts (e.g. cloud migration) continue to be important priorities for organizations. This combination brings huge challenges for IT teams, who are not only required to facilitate major digital changes and increase developer productivity but also ensure that this transformation is secure by default. When using AWS in particular, it’s challenging to understand how to strike this balance between accelerated cloud growth and security.

You should be using HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) headers in your Node.js server

For most websites and apps, employing security-related HTTP headers has become standard practice. Websites use headers as part of HTTP requests and replies to convey information about a page or data sent via the HTTP protocol. They might include a Content-Encoding header to indicate that the content is a compressed zip file or a Location header to specify a redirect URL.

How to build a secure API gateway in Node.js

Microservices offer significant advantages compared to monoliths. You can scale the development more easily and have precise control over scaling infrastructure. Additionally, the ability to make many minor updates and incremental rollouts significantly reduces the time to market. Despite these benefits, microservices architecture presents a problem — the inability to access its services externally. Fortunately, an API gateway can resolve this issue.

5 "no experience needed" tips for building secure applications

Most developers aren’t security experts. This isn’t because we don’t care about security, it’s just that there are only so many hours in the day and features come first. Fortunately, developers don’t need to be security experts to build secure apps — they just need the right tools.

Kubernetes network policy best practices

Controlling and filtering traffic when containerizing a workload within Kubernetes Pods is just as crucial as a firewall in a more traditional network setup. The difference is that, in this scenario, those capabilities are provided by the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy API. This article will explore Kubernetes NetworkPolicy by creating an example network policy and examining its core parameters. Then, we’ll look at some common NetworkPolicy use cases and learn how to monitor them using kubectl.

Building an application security battle plan: Home Alone edition

The holiday season is the perfect time to rewatch some favorite festive movies! While some prefer their holiday movies to be as sappy as possible (Hallmark, we’re looking at you), others relish the annual opportunity to watch an 8-year-old boy exact his revenge on two bumbling bad guys in the 1990 classic Home Alone.