SDLC Inventory

Modern software complexity demands an equally sophisticated build and deployment infrastructure.

Software is typically built and deployed in production environments using pipeline commands. A build/deploy pipeline is based on a set of automated processes and tools, involving source control, build tools, continuous integration, testing automation (unit, integration and regression testing), validation, reporting, and distribution.

The build/deploy pipeline assets, known as SDLC assets, are automatically discovered in the Xygeni platform. This creates an inventory of SDLC assets for the pipelines used within an organization.

An SDLC Asset may present misconfigurations, leaked secrets, and other security issues which could be abused in software supply chain attacks. Common assets are code repositories, dependency graphs, package managers, build files, security tools, CI/CD workflows or IaC templates and provisioning scripts, along with the infrastructure, tools and extensions (such as plugins) used in the build / deploy pipelines.

Security issues and unusual activity events are mapped to the target SDLC assets. The Inventory allows to reveal unknown, misconfigured and vulnerable SDLC systems and infrastructure, and perform impact analysis: dependencies between assets may be exploited by attackers to propagate the attack payloads.

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