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Achieving Speed and Security in Agile Development

Software development is often a game of speed. Unrealistic deadlines were one of the top work challenges developers cited in a recent Statista survey. With the tech industry moving a mile a minute, the pressure to perform can lead developers to cut corne...

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What Is SCA? (Software Composition Analysis)

If you want to know what SCA is and how it can help with your development, we’ve created a guide to scanning your application.

What’s the Purpose of a Secure Code Review?

Twitter recently became the victim of a data breach caused by incorrect settings around an application programming interface (API). Hackers stole the information of 5.4 million users and posted it to an online forum. Threat actors then began selling the infor...

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How to Ensure Compliance with the PCI DSS Framework

About a quarter of Americans are victims of credit or debit card fraud every year. Credit card scammers are getting smarter every day and devising new tricks to obtain personal information, so the number of reports of credit card fraud goes up each year. This...

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The Top 15 Open-Source Software Security Risks

We’ll walk you through some of the top open-source software security risks and discuss the tools and processes you can use to mitigate them.

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The ROI of Application Security: Defense Is a Business Advantage

Cybersecurity is evolving faster than ever, and the cost of a security incident continues to grow with it. IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023” showed that the financial impact of the average cybersecurity intrusion has risen to 4.45 mi...

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17 Secure Coding Guidelines and Best Practices

One of the most important parts of software development is ensuring that your code is protected as much as possible from a wide range of threats. The number of cybersecurity breaches is going up, which is spurring many companies to raise their cybersecurity b...

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What Is Vulnerability Remediation and Why Is It Essential to the SDLC?

As our use of technology grows and evolves, so do the threats presented by bad actors constantly looking for ways to exploit software vulnerabilities. Mitigating these risks during the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has become critical in helping devel...

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What Is Clean Code and Does It Promote Security?

Cranking out line after line of code has become cheap and easy with generative AI. However, as with most things in life, more is not necessarily better — especially regarding code. Combined with a race-to-market mindset and accelerating feature creep, this&nb...

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Do Your Apps Use Third-Party Components? Scan Your Code

Many software projects incorporate third-party components to add specific functionality. One of the biggest problems IT teams face is keeping up with what’s being used. Without a rigorous framework governing their use, applications can become a Wild West full...

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What Code Security Risks Exist Beyond OWASP Top 10?

The OWASP Top 10 is a great starting point for mitigating code security risks. However, businesses that want to be prepared for modern cyber threats must go beyond a checklist of typical threat vectors. Incorporating security at every touchpoint allows develo...

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Shifting Left with Security: DevSecOps for Early Vulnerability Detection

Complacency and passivity are no longer options for app security. Today’s software build failures can become tomorrow’s headaches when hackers locate the vulnerabilities your company failed to detect. A successful cyber attack can lead to data breaches, ...

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