Cycode – Providing Visibility, Security, and Integrity across All Phases of the SDLC

A software supply chain is anything that goes into, or affects your code. Even though supply chain compromises are real, and growing in popularity, they’re still extremely rare - and so the most important thing you can do to protect your supply chain is patch your vulnerabilities.

Cycode is one such complete software supply chain security platform that provides visibility, security, and integrity across all phases of the SDLC. The company integrates with DevOps tools and infrastructure providers, hardens their security postures by implementing consistent governance, and reduces the risk of breaches with a series of scanning engines that look for issues like hardcoded secrets, infrastructure as code misconfigurations, code leaks and more. Cycode’s knowledge graph tracks code integrity, user activity, and events across the SDLC to prioritize risk, find anomalies, and prevent code tampering.

Leveraging Comprehensive Solutions Combining Integrity Verification and Governance

Source Control & CI/CD Security: As DevOps toolchains become more complex the need to manage policies across the entire SDLC becomes more painful. Moreover, larger organizations have multiple teams using different tools and acquisitions exacerbate this problem further. Cycode applies and enforces consistent governance and security policies across all your teams and tools. Cycode helps enforce strong authentication policies such as multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to ensure each user actually is who they claim to be.

Hardcoded Secrets Detection: The use of hard-coding secrets is skyrocketing as applications increasingly leverage dependencies that must authenticate services. Additionally, hardcoded secrets expose access to valuable resources and enable attackers to rapidly “peel the onion.” Ultimately, the risk of hardcoded secrets stems from three types of exposure: compromised insiders, malicious insiders, and code leakage. A complete hardcoded secrets solution must include comprehensive scanning and address the ways secrets are exposed. It hardens your SDLC’s security posture by implementing consistent governance, and reduces the risk of breaches with a series of scanning engines that look for issues like hardcoded secrets, misconfigurations, code leaks and more. Cycode’s knowledge graph tracks code integrity, user activity, and events across the SDLC to prioritize risk, find anomalies, and prevent code tampering.

Infrastructure as Code Security: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools boost teams’ efficiency by automating provisioning, however they also amplify mistakes. Any misconfigurations in IaC code can end up being replicated across cloud environments, at scale. Cycode enables IaC misconfiguration to be easily found and fixed directly within developer workflows to ensure configurations are secure and adhere to best practices. Continuously compare IaC configurations to those in production infrastructure to identify drift — a situation where the configurations are no longer aligned, often in an insecure way. Cycode alerts your teams so these environments can be remediated.

Code Tampering Prevention: Unlike traditional attacks, the key to code tampering prevention is hardening the software supply chain. However, software supply chain’s attack surfaces are so vast and interconnected, that no single point solution or approach can provide comprehensive protection. Code tampering prevention requires a modern take on age-old concept: Defense in depth. Only by orchestrating a suite of tools, working in concert across each phase of the SDLC the code tampering risk be effectively mitigated. Cycode’s knowledge graph makes it easy to confirm that inputs and outputs match across all the interconnections within your software delivery pipeline.

Source Code Leakage Detection: Source code is at the core of any software company’s intellectual property; if it falls into the hands of hackers, the repercussions can become tangible very quickly. Cycode helps you minimize the likelihood and risk of code leakage, alerts on suspicious behavior and identifies actual leaks of your proprietary code to help you contain them quickly. Automatically fingerprint your proprietary repos and continuously scan public repos and code sharing sites for your proprietary code. If your code ends up on these sites, Cycode automatically alerts you so you can remove it.

The Leader Upfront       

Lior Levy is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Cycode. He is a former Symantec security architect and security researcher for the Israel Defense Forces with over a decade of experience in both defensive and offensive cybersecurity.

“Cycode integrates with DevOps tools and infrastructure providers, hardens their security postures and reduces the risk of breaches with a series of scanning engines.”