I think it’s time to focus on a few key practices for beginners to implement secure CI/CD. I’ve been building the idea on the idea of a CI/CD pipeline in a bunch of the below posts: Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures Automate Your Database Changes with a CI/CD Pipeline How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Your Database Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and GitHub Actions: A Kubernetes Case Study Adding pre-commit Hooks to Python Repo Writing Tests For Your Python Project All of these articles are a scattering of topics based upon some of the daily randomness that I’ve faced in my work life. After looking at all of these articles, I realized that they are a good basis for building out a secure CI/CD pipeline but the steps aren’t connected very well. ...

In my Silence Not Golden: Fixing the Mute Button on Tetragon Logs post, I realized that I was an idiot. I also realized that I needed to get all of my Kubernetes into one place for a number of reasons. I’m most familiar with Splunk so it makes sense to centralize my Kubernetes logs with Splunk. In this post, I’m going to walk through configuring Splunk and Kubernetes so that all of my logs are in a central location. I’m not going to include setting up a Splunk instance so I’ll assume that you have deployed Splunk in Cloud or some version of Enterprise. ...

In my previous From Reactive to Proactive: Transforming Security with Tetragon post, I got Tetragon installed and working. After doing some digging, I found that I was only generating events and logs for one of the k8 nodes in my cluster. This article focuses on how I noticed this and how to fix tetragon logging issues. Identifying That I Had a Logging Issue While poking around at the logs and events from Tetragon, I noticed that I wasn’t getting logs and events from all of my pods. As an example, I have the following two nginx pods on separate Kubernetes nodes: ...

After writing my DMARC Reports: Your Secret Weapon Against Domain Fraud (And How to Read Them) post, I realized that I hadn’t really looked at SPF and DKIM records too much. I had read how you could be protecting your brand from email spoofing with SPF and DKIM records but hadn’t explored them very much. I figured that it made more sense to dig a little deeper into what SPF and DKIM records are as well as how they work. ...

I recently received Emails for my Shopify stores Momma Bears Creations and InkedWith regarding missing DMARC DNS entries. The Email was titled: Add a DMARC record to continue sending emails from your domain. An example of the Email is below Gmail and Yahoo have announced changes that require you to add a DMARC record on your domain before February 1, 2024 if you’d like to continue sending emails from a branded email address. ...