In today’s fast paced world of software development, speed and innovation bring increasing complexity and regulatory pressure. Continuous integration, global collaboration, and the widespread use of open-source components open up opportunities but also introduce significant risks that can impact the operation, reputation, and compliance of organizations. Protecting the software development cycle has become, now more than ever, a critical factor for leadership.
Security threats targeting the software development cycle have become a central concern on the business risk agenda. A single incident can cause major reputational damage, financial losses, and regulatory penalties. That’s why, ensuring end to end protection—from ideation to delivery and operation—is essential to maintaining the trust of customers, partners, and shareholders.
Risks in Open Source: Heavy reliance on third-party libraries and packages accelerates development but also introduces sophisticated threats. Today, attacks through malicious dependencies or undetected vulnerabilities can lead to data breaches and disruption of critical services, highlighting the need for more robust control in the selection and integration of components.
Visibility Requirements (SBOM): Transparency into what makes up an application is no longer optional. Global regulations now mandate the creation and maintenance of an SBOM, allowing for the rapid identification of risky dependencies and real-time responses to audits and incidents.
JFrog Curation blocks risky or non-compliant packages before they are integrated into the pipeline, through policies that only validate trusted components for development.
JFrog Xray continuously scans artifacts and their dependencies, detecting vulnerabilities, generating early alerts, and allowing immediate action against any identified risk.
JFrog Artifactory centralizes all your artifacts and their metadata, enabling the automatic generation and storage of SBOMs using leading industry standards (SPDX, CycloneDX). This streamlines audits, eliminates manual errors, and provides complete traceability over your applications and components.
JFrog Advanced Security introduces advanced controls and policies directly into DevOps workflows, ensuring identification, prioritization, and agile remediation of vulnerabilities without slowing down development. The response to new threats is faster and more effective, strengthening the entire software lifecycle.
JFrog Runtime enhances security during application execution through real-time monitoring and policy enforcement, allowing detection and response to active threats in production or testing environments.
JFrog ML Support extends JFrog’s management, traceability, and compliance functionalities to the lifecycle of machine learning models. It provides control over artifacts, dependencies, and model versions, ensuring that AI environments are protected and aligned with regulatory and industry standards.
Monster, a global leader in connecting people with job opportunities, faced significant challenges from legacy monolithic applications that slowed innovation, with release cycles of up to 15 months. By adopting the JFrog platform, Monster transformed its development towards a cloud-native architecture based on microservices and Kubernetes. This modernization allowed its globally distributed development teams to efficiently manage artifacts and dependencies, reducing release cycles to near real time. The integration of JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray facilitated centralized repository management and proactive vulnerability detection, significantly improving security and operational performance.
Proactive risk reduction: Fewer incidents, reduced exposure, continuous centralized protection.
Efficient regulatory compliance: Automates SBOM and vulnerability analysis; confidently passes audits.
Operational agility: Native DevOps integration speeds up deliveries without sacrificing security.
Transparency and control: Visualize and control in real-time all components that make up your applications.
Protecting the software development life cycle is a complex challenge that requires advanced, automated, and easy-to-deploy solutions. The JFrog suite enables you to anticipate threats, ensure compliance, and foster a culture of secure, collaborative, and efficient development.
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What are ITSM processes? ITIL version 4 recently went from recommending ITSM “processes” to introducing 34 ITSM “practices”. Their reasoning for this updated terminology is that “elements such as culture, technology, information and data management can be considered to get a holistic view of ways of working”. This more comprehensive approach better reflects the realities of modern organizations.
Here, we will not concern ourselves with nuanced differences in the use of practice or process terminology. What’s important and true, no matter what framework your team follows, is that modern IT service teams use organizational resources and follow repeatable procedures to deliver consistent and efficient service. In fact, leveraging practice or process is what distinguishes ITSM from IT.
Change management ensures standard procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes to IT infrastructure, whether it’s rolling out new services, managing existing ones, or resolving problems in the code. Effective change management provides context and transparency to avoid bottlenecks, while minimizing risk. Don’t feel overwhelmed by these and the even longer list of ITIL practices.
Problem management is the process of identifying and managing the causes of incidents on an IT service. Problem management isn’t just about finding and fixing incidents, but identifying and understanding the underlying causes of an incident as well as identifying the best method to eliminate the root causes.
Incident management is the process to respond to an unplanned event or service interruption and restore the service to its operational state. Considering all the software services organizations rely on today, there are more potential failure points than ever, so this process must be ready to quickly respond to and resolve issues.
IT asset management (also known as ITAM) is the process of ensuring an organization’s assets are accounted for, deployed, maintained, upgraded, and disposed of when the time comes. Put simply, it’s making sure that the valuable items, tangible and intangible, in your organization are tracked and being used.
Is the process of creating, sharing, using, and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge.
Is a repeatable procedure for handling the wide variety of customer service requests, like requests for access to applications, software enhancements, and hardware updates. The service request workstream often involves recurring requests, and benefits greatly from enabling customers with knowledge and automating certain tasks.
It’s simply not enough to have an ITSM solution – you need one that actually accelerates how your teams work.
Atlassian’s ITSM solution unlocks IT at high- velocity by streamlining workflows across development and operations at scale. Meaning what was once many siloed teams with different ways of working, are now integrated and much more collaborative than ever before.
ITSM benefits your IT team, and service management principles can improve your entire organization. ITSM leads to efficiency and productivity gains. A structured approach to service management also brings IT into alignment with business goals, standardizing the delivery of services based on budgets, resources, and results. It reduces costs and risks, and ultimately improves the customer experience.
