Dependency Scanning
What is Dependency Scanning?
Automated analysis of software dependencies and libraries to identify known vulnerabilities that could affect the security of the application.
Terms that appear alongside dependency scanning
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as dependency scanning. The number is how many controls name both.
- vulnerability 4 shared controls
- hardening 4 shared controls
- remediation 4 shared controls
- secure coding 4 shared controls
- zero trust 3 shared controls
- network segmentation 3 shared controls
- application security 3 shared controls
- compliance 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern dependency scanning
What the standards actually require on dependency scanning
Requirements naming dependency scanning across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure controls cover the underlying compute + network + storage + management plane. (1) Virtual Network Segmentation: VPC Virtual Private Cloud isolation + subnets + security groups + NACLs + microsegmentation + service mesh (Istio + Linke...
ISMAP-CloudInfrastructure-NetworkSegmentation-Container-Serverless-WorkloadProtection-Hardening-ConfigManagement · ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure - VPC Network Segmentation + Container/Serverless Security + Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) + Image/Template Hardening + CIS Benchmarks + Configuration Management + IaC →Operate cyber security per OSFI B-13 Domain 3 aligned with NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 functions (Govern + Identify + Protect + Detect + Respond + Recover).
OSFIB13-3 · Cyber Security: Identification, Protection, Detection, Response, Recovery →Per OWASP SAMM v2 Verification business function: verify security through assessment + testing. Security Practices: (1) Architecture Assessment including architecture validation + compliance + (2) Requirements-Driven Testing including security testing per requ...
OWASPSAMM-4 · Verification: Architecture Assessment, Requirements-Driven Testing, Security Testing →Operate network security + endpoint protection + secure system development + configuration management per Oman framework. Network security must include segmentation + perimeter protection + intrusion detection + DLP + zero trust architecture aligned with matur...
OMANCS-5 · Network, Endpoint, System Development, and Configuration Security →Questions people ask about dependency scanning
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