You can monitor application security for Java apps running in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate.
In general, setting up Application Security Management (ASM) involves:
- Identifying services that are vulnerable or are under attack, which would most benefit from ASM. Find them on the Security tab of your Service Catalog.
- Updating to the latest Datadog library (the most recent APM tracing library).
- Enabling the library to collect the application security data from the services and send it to Datadog.
- Triggering security signals in your application and seeing how Datadog displays the resulting information.
Prerequisites
Enabling Code Security
If your service runs a tracing library version that supports code security, enable the capability by setting the DD_IAST_ENABLED=true
environment variable and restarting your service.
To detect code-level vulnerabilities in your service:
Update your Datadog Agent to at least version 7.41.1.
Update your tracing library to at least the minimum version needed to turn on code security vulnerability detection. For details, see ASM capabilities support.
Add the DD_IAST_ENABLED=true
environment variable to your application configuration.
From the command line:
java -javaagent:/path/to/dd-java-agent.jar -Ddd.iast.enabled=true -Ddd.service=<MY SERVICE> -Ddd.env=<MY_ENV> -jar path/to/app.jar
Or one of the following methods, depending on where your application runs:
Note: Read-only file systems are not supported. The application must have access to a writable /tmp
directory.
Update your configuration container for APM by adding the following argument in your docker run
command:
docker run [...] -e DD_IAST_ENABLED=true [...]
Add the following environment variable value to your container Dockerfile:
Update your deployment configuration file for APM and add the IAST environment variable:
spec:
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: <CONTAINER_NAME>
image: <CONTAINER_IMAGE>/<TAG>
env:
- name: DD_IAST_ENABLED
value: "true"
Update your ECS task definition JSON file, by adding this in the environment section:
"environment": [
...,
{
"name": "DD_IAST_ENABLED",
"value": "true"
}
]
Restart your service.
To see Code Security in action, browse your service and find code-level vulnerabilities in the Vulnerability Explorer.
If you need additional assistance, contact Datadog support.
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles: