Elektor International Media’s Post

Memory safety is growing in importance in embedded systems as developers tackle meeting CRA requirements. In this interview with AdaCore, I learned about DevSecOps for embedded, the role Ada/SPARK and Rust are already playing, and what analysis tools can help during development. Thanks to Jose Ruiz, Mark Hermeling and Andrea Bristol FCIM. https://lnkd.in/dCqR7kT9

March 11th is coming up fast - this *will be AMAZING for people trying to find the Easy Button to address #AppSec and remain friends after the code has been secured. Bring your questions - you'd be hard-pressed to ask something these 2 can't answer (or make better)!

Shai-Hulud 2.0 exploited CI/CD pipelines in 2025, exposing shift-left flaws and driving curated catalogs to reduce CVE risk by 99%.

ShadowLine is a modern Command & Control (C2) framework developed in Go, designed for Red Team operations and adversary emulation. It features a unique "Dead Drop" architecture using GitHub Gists and Ngrok Tunnels, making it resistant to traditional blocking methods. The framework supports cross-platform agents, encrypted communications, and advanced persistence mechanisms, while including essential offensive modules for remote shell access, file operations, and system surveillance. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g7mD_h6K

OPTIMUS PRIME just hardened Docker containers from the inside out. Because breaking in means nothing if you can't lock the door behind you. TryHackMe's Container Hardening room. The defensive counterpart to every container escape the swarm has exploited. What the swarm learned to defend against itself: Docker Daemon Protection: SSH contexts and TLS encryption for remote Docker management. Because an exposed daemon on port 2375 is root access gift-wrapped. docker context create for profile management. TLS certificates for mutual authentication. Control Groups: --cpus and --memory flags to prevent a single container from consuming the entire host. A malicious cryptominer in a container with no cgroup limits will starve every other service on the box. Capability Management: Drop ALL capabilities, add only what's needed. --cap-drop=ALL --cap-add=NET_BIND_SERVICE for a web server. Because CAP_SYS_ADMIN on a container is the same as handing an attacker root on the host. Seccomp + AppArmor: Two layers of defense. Seccomp restricts system calls at the process level. AppArmor restricts resource access at the OS level. Combined, they define exactly what a container can do — nothing more. Vulnerability Scanning: Grype found zlib1g rated Critical (CVE-2023-45853) in a container filesystem. Docker Scout scans images before deployment. Because the vulnerability you don't scan for is the one that gets exploited. The offensive-defensive loop: Every container escape OPTIMUS PRIME executes in attack mode becomes a hardening rule in defense mode. Privileged container exploit? Drop capabilities. Docker socket escape? Don't mount the socket. Namespace abuse? Isolate PID namespaces. Attack builds the playbook. Defense writes the policy. Twenty-two rooms. The Wolfpack hardens what it breaks. #CyberSecurity #Docker #ContainerSecurity #DevSecOps #Hardening #AppArmor #Seccomp #CloudSecurity #TryHackMe #WolfpackAI #OptimusPrime #BlueTeam #DefenseInDepth #AI

“It’s the only thing I’ve ever used that just works.” That’s one of the best things we’ve heard from teams using UDS Core. And today, we’re proud to say: UDS Core 1.0 is here. UDS Core was built so teams can stop rebuilding the same platform problems over and over again and get back to delivering capability. Security, airgap, repeatability, the baseline stuff that has to work, all in one place. That’s what 1.0 means to us, a real milestone, shaped by real mission environments, and proven by the people using it. Want the full story behind UDS Core 1.0? Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/g9Ty4-qz

"Defense Unicorns has been using UDS Core in production systems for years, and as of this blog post, we support over 50 mission systems, almost 300 applications, and nearly 100,000 mission users." The sky is the limit with this crew. 🚀

A secure runtime that is Portable (deploy anywhere), Open (free from vendor lock), and Secure (by default). 10s of thousands of deployments (dev/test/prod). We swapped Istio Sidecar with Ambient mesh without breaking deployments. We replaced Neuvector with Falco... without breaking deployments. UDS Core is the stage crew that just works. No disruption. No hassle. Just everything you need. The Show (Mission) must go on!

Defense Unicorns and UDS Core 1.0 were created around a simple idea: delivering secure software in highly regulated environments should not require rebuilding the same platform foundation every time. We take on the hard platform and integration work so our partners and Mission Heroes can deploy, update, and scale mission capabilities faster than our adversaries. If you’re facing secure software delivery challenges, let’s talk.

I implore my pals in government and industry to give it a try. Easiest most secure app platform I have ever touched! And y’all know I am getting old. (What’s that? 3.11? For workgroups?!) Best part is, all you need is a little memory and compute to host it and your app!!!