In 2020, cyber criminals used cloud applications, the cover of a pandemic, and a newly embraced work-from-home culture to serve up ransomware, steal data, and disrupt how companies do business. The year is over, but the challenges and risks remain. How do we prevent these criminals from injecting chaos into our hybrid work environments? As […]
The Biden Administration’s Cyber Executive Order includes a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), an electronically readable format designed to provide an inventory of third-party components that make up software components. It is a critical and necessary first measure for protecting the software supply chain, but is it enough?One of the biggest challenges to supply chain transparency […]
Preventing breaches begins with understanding and protecting your attack surface. For most enterprises, their attack surface is huge. To help wrangle it, security professionals have struggled for years to use tools such as network mapper (nmap) or vulnerability scanners to discover and test the security of internet-exposed assets; these typically present a path of least […]
Application security has become a complex, distributed problem. During the days of waterfall development and monolithic applications, application security was pretty straight forward – statically scan your source code, dynamically test your business logic, and deploy a web application firewall to protect layer 7 traffic. But with agile development, DevOps processes, and containerized applications, application […]
The introduction of containers and micro-service architectures have changed the way we develop, deploy, and run our applications. Not only has this changed application development, but it’s also created some visibility challenges for application security. Move those applications to the cloud and we only amplify those challenges. How do we architect our cloud services and […]
There are a number of industry analyst reports on application security. Each analyst firm and report takes its own slice of the market to analyze and report on vendors within that market. For example, the Forrester Wave focuses on Static Application Security Testing, the Gartner Magic Quadrant focuses on Application Security Testing as a whole, […]
The growth of application development, DevOps, containers, and cloud has fueled the growth of application security tools. We now have static analysis, software composition analysis, interactive analysis, dynamic analysis, container scanning, infrastructure as code scanning, and a number of runtime application security products. That’s a lot of testing data, but how do we integrate it […]
The terms machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are way overused terms in our industry. Every vendor seems to have the latest and greatest ML/AI solution to solve your security problem. But when you really dig into the math, there are mathematical models that can actually help us. So why don’t we focus on […]
There are a lot of endpoint security solutions on the market. How do you pick and choose which solution is right for you? The answer may depend on which endpoints you want to protect. Windows? MacOS? Linux? All of the above? What about containers and cloud infrastructure? When we think of traditional endpoints, we immediately […]
Cloud-Native and Serverless are the next evolution of application architecture. But protecting these applications is not easy. Where do I install my agent? How do I monitor network traffic? What APIs are exposed? The adoption of containers started this challenge a few years ago by abstracting the application from the operating system. In order to […]
