It is critical for organizations to develop a comprehensive application security strategy that includes the security of applications currently under development and legacy applications. Tim Buntel explains how.
When it comes to API security, even companies with world-class security teams like Facebook and Google are getting caught off guard. In this article, Bernard Harguindeguy offers 12 must-have best practices for protecting API infrastructure from hacking and abuses.
The agile development of software offers numerous advantages for developers and development teams. On the other hand, Agile also poses new security challenges. Christian Schneider shows in his session from DevOpsCon 2018 which security sins should not be committed in agile projects.
In this article, Ralf Huuck goes over his predictions for how the field of data security will shake out in the new year. What’s in store for 2019? Hopefully, more standardization within the field and less data breaches overall.
Time to put languages to the test. Which programming languages are the most secure and which have dents in their armor? A report from WhiteSource examined security vulnerabilities in some of the most popular programming languages and looked at the trends of high security vulnerabilities over the years.
According to Gartner, by 2022 API abuse will be the most frequented attack vector on the enterprises. In this tutorial, Dmitry Sotnikov shows how you can use your API contract file to locate and remediate some of the common API vulnerabilities.
Were you affected by the runC container breakout? Make sure your containers are all patched up and running safely and securely. When it comes to using containers, ensuring security should be everyone’s number one priority. What makes container vulnerabilities so dangerous?
Why do gaps keep appearing year after year? While the reason behind this is rather simple, the solution isn’t. In this article, Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja makes an assessment of the security breaches and discusses what security will need in the future in order to deal with an ever-evolving infrastructure.
Despite the high quality of supportive tools in the field of security testing, this is still unknown territory for many development projects and therefore still has some unused potential. Christian Schneider’s session at DevOpsCon 2017 offers a well-rounded overview of the open-source tools used by security professionals and penetration testers in their daily work on the detection of security vulnerabilities.
Data Theorem recently launched two new API security products: API Discover, which helps enterprises combat what has been known as Shadow APIs, rogue APIs developers publish without proper enterprise security vetting that go undetected by today’s legacy security tools and API Inspect solution, which provides a continuous and automated security verification service to ensure the real-world operations of APIs always match their intended specs. We talked to Doug Dooley, Data Theorem COO about all this and more.
Earlier this month, we reviewed the research of Vladimír Smitka on open .git folders in websites globally. The results of his research were remarkable – 390,000 web pages were found with open .git directory! So we invited Vladimir for a talk on his research, GDPR implications and his views on open source vulnerabilities.
In the world of DevOps, traditional application security is no longer enough. How can we improve AppSec? What are the newest security challenges that arise as DevOps becomes more mature? JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc caught up with Tim Mackey, technical evangelist for Black Duck by Synopsys at DevOpsCon 2018 to talk about all this and more.
What are non-malware attacks, how do they differ from traditional threats, why are they so dangerous, and what can you do to prevent them? Marcell Gogan answers these questions and more.
Technically speaking, Blockchain has revolutionized the cybersecurity process and has considerably made it harder for cyber terrorists to tamper with critical data. In this article, Maria Thomas explores two major functions of Blockchain technology that aid cybersecurity.
