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Only 1% of websites are infected with malware at any given time, but this translates to a colossal 17.6 million websites overall, a new report shows. [Read More]
WordPress released version 5.2 of the popular content management system (CMS), which includes new security and stability features. [Read More]
Shape Security has announced a new product designed to protect small and medium business websites from the growing scourge of advanced bot-based credential stuffing. [Read More]
NIST updates its ACTS toolkit to help developers of safety-critical applications, such as the ones powering aircraft and nuclear power plants, find errors and make their software safer. [Read More]
The effect of this bad bot activity doesn't merely affect legitimate competition and provide access to victim accounts, it skews the entire web ecosystem. [Read More]
FireEye releases an open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files to identify malware and prevent infections. [Read More]
Container security firm Aqua Security raises $62 million in a Series C funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to over $100 million. [Read More]
ACROS Security launches 0patch PRO, a paid version of its 0patch service that offers better technical support and patches for vulnerabilities affecting enterprise systems. [Read More]
Sqreen, an application security management company founded by former leaders of Apple’s offensive security team, raises $14 million in a Series A funding round. [Read More]
Facebook introduces new settings for its mobile apps to make it easier for white hat hackers to conduct security testing. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Application Security
If done right and integrated throughout the process, security ends up being not a source of friction, but a function that protects the business, at the speed of business.
With a holistic approach you can enable efficient segmentation across your infrastructure, identify anomalies faster by using process behavior deviations, and reduce your attack surface quickly.
This move to container-based development and agile methodologies has been great for innovation and iteration, but it’s also brought a massive shift in the application landscape with real impact on security teams.
As organizations digitize their business and make these shifts, they need to know what and who they can trust.
By paying just a bit more attention to the permissions you are allowing on your phone or computer, you could protect yourself from a much more significant headache down the road.
While GDPR doesn’t require encryption, there are four mentions of encryption in GDPR that provide real incentives for organizations to use encryption.
A confluence of factors is putting hundreds of thousands of implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications at risk of cyber attacks.
Applications contain three specific components where vulnerabilities can be found, and each must be tested in a different way for security testing to be complete.
As you start to get an idea of what your application portfolio looks like, you then need to start determining the specific risks that applications can expose your organization to.
From a security perspective, to create understand application dependencies you need not only to understand the flows and servers, you need to understand the ports and underlying processes.
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