In the year 2018 Facebook disclosed a massive data breach due to which the company had to face a lawsuit along with allegations of not properly securing its user data. The breach directly affected the authentication tokens of nearly 30 million of its users which led to the filing of several class-action complaints in a San Francisco appeals court. In the wake of the incident, Facebook pledged to strengthen its security.
A feature, known as "View As" which was employed by developers to render user pages was exploited by hackers to get access to user tokens. The theft of these tokens is associated with the advancement of a major API security risk, it also indicates how API risks can go unnoticed for such a long time frame. The trends in digital up-gradation have further pushed the process of continuous integration and continuous delivery – CI/CD, which are closely related concepts but are sometimes used interchangeably. The main purpose of continuous delivery is to ensure that the deployment of a new code takes the least possible effort. It enables DevOps to maintain a constant flow of software updates to fasten release patterns and reduce the risks related to development.
Conventionally, developers used to work on the parts of an application– one at a time and then manually merge the codes. The process was isolated and time-consuming, it led to the duplication of code creation efforts. However, as the IT ecosystem went on embracing the new CI/CD model and effectively sped up the development process while ensuring early detection of bugs, almost all the security has been commercialized by ace infrastructure providers namely Microsoft and Amaz ..
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