AppSec 2.0: Security Without the Noise

Moogsoft engaged with the Deepfactor platform due to the diverse set of offerings that it enables us to engage with and implement into our pipeline process, particularly the deep inspection of the runtime and the various dependencies throughout our product. Deepfactor allows us to really get a fine-grained analysis of not only what was being used but how it was being used.

We only looked at runtime in terms of performance analysis, but never in terms of security analysis, and that has changed. With Deepfactor, the types of vulnerabilities that we’ve suddenly become aware of are the runtime ones such as processes running as root, privilege escalation, insecure use of secrets, remote code execution, and use of unsafe APIs.

SBOMs help organizations to determine if they are susceptible to security vulnerabilities previously identified in software components. These components could be internally developed, commercially procured or open-source software libraries. SBOMs generate and verify information about code provenance and relationships between components, which helps software engineering teams to detect malicious attacks during development (e.g., code injection) and deployment (e.g., binary tampering).

Properly implemented, cloud-native applications will be the most secure applications your organization has ever developed and deployed. But you must discard the baggage of your conventional thinking, tools and processes for security.

What Deepfactor provides us is the ability to do a dynamic scan against the service to give us another viewpoint and perspective, and catch the things that are actively running.

Firms that want to secure applications are challenged by understaffed security teams and lack of security awareness on the part of developers. Developer security champions are developers who act as a security point of contact in their team and embed.

Deepfactor has a unique perspective, looking at the applications from the inside out. Being able to say this application made an outbound call to this port using this library brings another layer of knowledge to your developers’ understanding of the application.

The team is so busy with developing new features they didn’t want the additional overhead of looking at security defects. There could be a deluge of false positives. We needed the right tooling. We told AppSec – ‘If you don’t have a test case associated with a particular container, there’s a strong likelihood we’re going to miss out on identifying these vulnerabilities.’