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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 3 – Ephemeral Keys and Artifact Promotion
In the last post of the series about Sigstore, I will look at the most exciting part of the implementation – ephemeral keys, or what the Sigstore team calls keyless signing. The post will go over the second and third scenarios I outlined in Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing…
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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 2 – The Magic Behind
In my previous post, Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing with Existing Keys, I went over the Cosign experience of signing images with existing keys. As I concluded there, the signing was easy to achieve, with just a few hiccups here and there. It does seem that Cosign does a…
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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing with Existing Keys
Today, the secure supply chain for software is on top of mind for every CISO and enterprise leader. After the President’s Executive Order (EO), many efforts were spun off to secure the supply chain. One of the most prominent is, of course, Sigstore. I looked at Sigstore more than a year ago and was excited…
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What is a Container Image Quarantine Flag and How to Use it?
In my last post, Implementing Quarantine Pattern for Container Images, I wrote about how to implement a quarantine pattern for container images and how to use policies to prevent the deployment of an image that doesn’t meet certain criteria. In that post, I also mentioned that the quarantine flag (not to be confused with the…
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Implementing Quarantine Pattern for Container Images
One important step in securing the supply chain for containers is preventing the use of “bad” images. I intentionally use the word “bad” here. For one enterprise, “bad” may mean “vulnerable”; for another, it may mean containing software with an unapproved license; for a third, it may be an image with a questionable signature; possibilities…
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Addressing the Current Challenges of Patching Container Vulnerabilities
While working on a process of improving the container secure supply chain, I often need to go over the current challenges of patching container vulnerabilities. With the introduction of Automatic VM Patching, having those conversations are even more challenging because there is always the question: “Why can’t we patch containers the same way we patch…
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Signatures, Key Management, and Trust in Software Supply Chains – Part 2: Exploiting Signatures
In Part 1 of the series Signatures, Key Management, and Trust in Software Supply Chains, I wrote about the basic concepts of identities, signatures, and attestation. In this one, I will expand on the house buying scenario, that I hinted about in Part 1, and will describe a few ways to exploit it in the…
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Signatures, Key Management, and Trust in Software Supply Chains – Part 1: Identities, Signatures and Attestation
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a project for a secure software supply chain, and one topic that seems to always start passionate discussions is the software signatures. The President’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO) is a pivotal point for the industry. One of the requirements is for vendors…
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Why Multi-Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) Usage Numbers Will Not Improve Any Time Soon?
If you have missed the news lately, cybersecurity is one of the most discussed topics nowadays. From supply chain exploits to data leaks to business email compromise (BEC) there is no break – especially during the pandemic. Many (if not all) start with an account compromise. And if you ask any cybersecurity expert, they will…
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To 404 or Not to 404 – Using HTTP Response Codes to Provide User-Friendly Error Messages in Microservices Implementation
How often the following happens to you? You write your client code, you call an API, and receive a 404 Not found response. You start investigating the issue in your code; change a line here or there; spend hours troubleshooting just to find out that the issue is on the server-side, and you can’t do…
