In 2017, OWASP added a new vulnerability to the Top 10 list: A8 Insecure Deserialization, in place of the previous #8 vulnerability, Cross-Site Request Forgery. According to OWASP, “Insecure deserialization often leads to remote code execution. Even...
What is Access Control? Access control (authorization) determines which users can interact with what systems and resources within your company. When access control is broken, users could send unauthorized requests to your applications. Unauthorized access to ...
Today’s security professionals face a relentless barrage of alerts, a widening cybersecurity skills gap, and the constant pressure to do more with less. Manually triaging alerts, investigating incidents, and coordinating responses across disparate secur...
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a software and hardware weaknesses classification system. It’s an extension of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) list compiled by MITRE. This federally funded, non-profit organization manages research and deve...
As the cybersecurity landscape becomes increasingly complex, it’s essential for organizations to stay informed about the tactics most likely to be used against them. In 2023, SQL injection attacks accounted for 23% of all critical web application vulner...
Source code vulnerabilities are one of the central openings that allow threat actors to carry out their cyberattacks. From code injection to denial of service (DOS) attacks, hackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to access users’ information. They ma...
Improving the security of your application development lifecycle provides users with a better experience while preventing data breaches, and it starts with security testing. The last thing any company wants is to get that dreaded warning that someone’s ...
SAST (also called “white box testing) is the basic form of security testing for application development. It involved the hard work of examining the actual un-compiled application source code to see if and where security vulnerabilities exist. This form of sec...
Application security is no longer an afterthought. Developers now prioritize security due to the exponential risk of cybercrime. Developers need to pay more attention to security as it is a crucial aspect of app development. Using application security solutio...
With data protection and consumer privacy regulations rapidly expanding, and AI regulations gathering on the horizon, taking a comprehensive and strict approach to cybersecurity is no longer optional. To comply, organizations are adopting a DevSecOps approach...
Open source software is good for your business since it allows you the freedom to modify it, so it meets all your company requirements. Aside from excellent security, the software is also cost-effective since you don’t have to worry about overpaying to use re...
In the early model of software development, departments and stages were siloed, and tasks were completed independently. In this waterfall method, a clearly defined and well-structured process for software development was laid out before developers wrote the f...
