“Speed is the new currency of business.” Chairman and CEO of Salesforce Marc R. Benioff’s words are especially potent today as many organizations small and large look for ways to speed up production during their shifts to digital. In software development, speed is a critical factor. Everything from shifting priorities to manual processes and siloed teams can seriously impede deployment schedules.

The percentage of open source code in the enterprise has been estimated to be in the 40 percent to 70 percent range. This doesn't make the headlines anymore, but even if your company falls in the average of this range, there is no dearth of work to do to clean up, comply with AppSec policies, and ship the product. Phew! So where do you start when it comes to resolving all the vulnerabilities uncovered in your open source libraries?

Today, we published the open source edition of our annual State of Software Security report. Solely focused on the security of open source libraries, the report includes analysis of 13 million scans of more than 86,000 repositories, containing more than 301,000 unique libraries. In last year’s open source edition report, we looked at a snapshot of open source library use and security.

The Biden administration released a new executive order for cybersecurity on May 12, 2021. Although many know the overarching message of the executive order, it’s also important to know the specific details outlined in each section.

iOS 14 issued a number of changes, as every new release does. But one area where Apple clearly spent a fair amount of time is in their WebViews. Traditionally, UIWebView was the class de jour when a developer wanted to present a web page. In iOS 14 though, UIWebView was officially deprecated in favor of WKWebView.

Veracode has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST) for the eighth consecutive year. Gartner evaluates vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute in the application security testing (AST) market. This recognition comes just months after we were named Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for AST, proving, in our opinion, the strength of our AST offerings according to both experts and users.