Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

March 2021

Medical device security in a pandemic world

The pandemic has put a lot of things on hold over the last year, but medical device security shouldn’t be one of them. The millions of medical devices that help keep people healthy—and in many cases keep them alive—have drawn mixed reviews from security experts since the internet happened. Even more so in the past year since the pandemic happened. There is just about unanimous agreement that the benefits of those devices outweigh the risks.

Synopsys CyRC named a CVE Numbering Authority

As a CVE Numbering Authority, Synopsys can assign CVE ID numbers and publish newly discovered vulnerabilities. The Synopsys Software Integrity Group has been helping organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in their software for nearly a decade. And now it will be able to help them and the broader software industry even more.

How to cyber security: Minimize risk and testing time with Intelligent Orchestration

Integrating AST tools into your CI/CD pipeline shouldn’t compromise your development velocity. Learn how Intelligent Orchestration can help. Sometimes it feels like software development is at the crux of the collision between an unstoppable force and an immovable object. The answer to putting security in every phase of development is partly process and partly automating and integrating security testing into the build and test phases of development.

Hacking medical devices: Five ways to inoculate yourself from attacks

Healthcare companies must follow medical device security best practices to defend against attacks on devices and the networks and systems they connect to. It’s vital that healthcare companies follow medical device security best practices to defend against attacks on devices and the networks and systems they connect to—especially during a pandemic.

WLAN under fuzzing with Defensics

A wireless LAN (WLAN), also commonly called Wi-Fi, is a wireless local area network defined in the various IEEE 802.11 standards and certified by Wi-Fi Alliance. WLAN capability used to be listed using the name of the IEEE standard amendment that it supports. Now the Wi-Fi Alliance uses generational numbering for corresponding technology support: Wi-Fi 4 (for devices implementing IEEE 802.11n), Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11ac), and Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax).

Why should DevOps teams choose IAST?

No matter where you are in your AppSec program, IAST tools can grow and scale with your organization’s needs. DevOps principles and practices are continuing to be adopted by a wide variety of companies, and here at Synopsys we’re working with our customers to help them in this journey. When it comes to DevSecOps, we have a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to help build security into every DevOps environment.

Don't let supply chain security risks poison your organization

Supply chain security risks are not new, but recent headlines are a reminder for consumers to re-examine their security practices. The story about the guy who hit his mule between the eyes with a 2×4 to “get his attention first” so the beast would then obey his gently whispered commands is memorable because it uses humor to make a serious point: Don’t wait to get clobbered before you pay attention to exhortations about what you ought to do.

Get earlier, actionable vulnerability insights from Black Duck Security Advisories

The number of open source vulnerabilities discovered each year never seems to stop growing, emphasizing the importance of developers addressing them quickly and efficiently. However, simply identifying vulnerabilities is insufficient; their sheer scale makes it necessary to have an intelligent way of understanding which ones need to be fixed first to decrease the risk of a breach. For development teams in this environment, remediation prioritization and broad vulnerability coverage are critical.

If you want to succeed in gaming, don't play games with security

Video game security risks are on the rise. Building security into your software development life cycle can help protect your reputation and customers. You’re supposed to have fun and relax when you’re playing video games—maybe with a bit of self-generated competitive stress. What you’re not supposed to do is have to worry about a hacker stealing your personal and financial information.

How I sped up one of our test suites by 17.5x by explicitly defining Elixir protocol implementations

Fallback protocols could be causing slower tests when running with code coverage. Defining protocol implementations can improve the speed. Hi, I’m Philip Ross, a developer working on Tinfoil API Scanner at Synopsys Software Integrity Group. A few months ago, I sped up one of our test suites from about 6 minutes to around 20 seconds.