With the explosion of high-profile hacks, ransomware, and data breaches, it’s common to feel insecure about your organization’s information security these days. As your infrastructure grows and diversifies, you have to protect your organization and its reputation like never before. In this blog, we will display how your organization can follow DevOps testing approach to boost security.

Contents 1. Latest Security Hacks and breaches 2. TestingXperts’ Security Testing Approach: ‘Tx-Secure’ (TestingXperts’ Security Testing Framework) 3. DevOps practices that can help in improving security

Latest Security Hacks and breaches

You don’t have to go far to see the cost of data breaches. In fact, 2017 has been one of the worst years to experience two big ransomware in a row. ‘WannaCry’ and ‘Petya’ are the two most prominent ransomware attacks that shook the entire world.

– WannaCry swept Asia and Europe rapidly, locking up critical systems such as the UK’s National Health Service, a huge telecom company in Spain, and other such businesses and institutions around the world, all in the fastest time. If reports are to be believed, the motive of WannaCry ransomware was not to make money but to produce a random disruption across the globe. This massive cyber-attack has hit at least 150 countries and infected 300,000 machines. The victims included universities, hospitals, manufacturers and government agencies in countries like China, Britain, Germany, Russia, and Spain.

– Petya, another recent cyber-attack hit companies across the USA and Europe. Petya was publicized to be more deadly than the ‘WannaCry’ cyber attack. With Petya, the victims were unable to unlock their computers in spite of paying the ransom. Petya attack impacted various services, and industries and Ukraine had turned out to be the epicenter of this attack. The Petya attack impacted companies across all sectors such as pharmaceuticals, shipping, hospitals, law firms and much more.

TestingXperts’ Security Testing Approach: ‘Tx-Secure’ (TestingXperts’ Security Testing Framework)

After all these incidents, it is evident that such attacks will not stop but only grow.  Companies and individuals today are under extreme pressure to build software/applications that are thoroughly tested for their security and are, at the same time, competent enough to alert users against any possible cyber-attack. TestingXperts’ homegrown security testing framework ‘Tx-Secure’ has built test accelerators and knowledge repository, using multiple open source and commercial tools, latest industry standards (OWASP, etc.) and proprietary testing methodologies. TestingXperts’ team of security experts recognize the importance of DevOps and takes it as a mindset and not a mere methodology.

DevOps reduces the gap between development and operations to speed up software delivery process and increase business agility and time-to-market. With its origins in the agile practices, DevOps promotes collaboration between teams and diminishes the gap development and operations teams and processes. DevOps as a concept understands the need for better security and ensures security precautions are built early in the cycle. Most of the practices that originate with DevOps, such as automation, collaboration, fast feedback loops, improved visibility, and more, are rich grounds for integrating security as an integrated component of DevOps processes.

DevOps practices that can help in improving security

Given below is a list of the top five DevOps practices that can improve the overall security when integrated directly into your end-to-end continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline:

– Collaboration – Configuration and patch management – Continuous monitoring – Security test automation – Identity management

On the Security front, TestingXperts is helping its customers determine the extent of availability and reliability of the application. TestingXperts, a frontrunner in adopting DevOps testing practices and agile methodologies, can help you automate your tests, maintain the security of your application, and achieve timely delivery schedules.

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In today’s connected IT world, cyber security is rapidly turning out to be more than just a technical issue. It has become explicitly essential for organizations to make sure that they have the right strategy in place to preempt any security attacks. A security breach when arises, cannot be undone completely and may leave you with the loss of data, damaged the reputation and legal consequence. Hence it is important that the subject is managed proactively by ensuring the robustness of your IT systems.

Contents 1. Cyber Security Testing 2. Measures employed by enterprises to ensure data security 3. Preventive Measures for Data Security 4. Role of Security Testing 5. Conclusion

Cyber Security Testing

Measures employed by enterprises to ensure data security:

– Using the correct security methods to detect and prevent security breaches at all levels – Using firewalls as an attempt to limit all kinds of unauthorized access – Using Analytics to detect any abnormal data usage activities which can also be used as a signal for an attack to occur – Using a developed infrastructure for supervision, training, and technical support for teams with the responsibility of data management and data collection – Using encryption for your sensitive data

No one is safe – Data security issues have affected organizations of all sizes and technical caliber

Preventive Measures for Data Security

This old adage is as true for human health as for the IT systems of your organization. Humans take the time to recover from infections, and still they may not be able to recover fully, therefore it is important to prevent infections. Likewise, it is as important for an organization to keep its IT systems secure rather than just relying on a robust recovery process. The best method to avoid any issue is to make security the utmost priority for your organization.

The best practice to achieve this objective is to educate teams to be aware of data security best practices and trends. The technical teams should specifically focus on the new happenings and threats in the world of security and use the right set of tools to prevent various cyber attacks or threats. For example – Static Code Analyzers can help automate the process of detecting all kinds of vulnerabilities in the source code. It can further assist in identifying where open source code is used in the software using which vulnerabilities can be tracked and avoided.

Role of Security Testing

Security testing ensures that all IT systems in the organization are free from all kinds of vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Security testing process involves the evaluation of security risks within the systems under test and to highlight the security threats using various tools and techniques.

The security testing process consists of security scanning, vulnerability scanning, security review, security auditing, penetration testing, etc. In particular, security testing helps enterprises to ensure that their data is not exposed to any breach.

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