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September 2024

This Month in Datadog: New Cloud SIEM Content Packs, Anthropic integration, Metrics Volume, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we put the Spotlight on new Cloud SIEM Content Packs..

Navigating Complex Cloud Environments with CIEM

Securing complex cloud environments is as crucial as it is challenging. The surface area for attack is vast. With the elastic nature of cloud resources, a single compromised service could allow attackers to take over large portions of your infrastructure, often lurking undetected for extended periods. This presents a significant risk to your organization, as your dynamic and ever-evolving cloud environment makes it difficult to maintain control over who has access to what.

The Power of Platform-Native Consolidation in Application Security

The application security landscape is shifting as organizations move away from a fragmented ecosystem of point solutions towards a unified platform such as the Mend AppSec Platform. Leveraging these platform-specific strengths brings numerous advantages: streamlined workflows, a cross-product workflow engine, a consolidated data model that enhances security posture, and developers that can focus fully on innovation.

Leveraging ASPM for Maximum Impact: A Security Leader's Guide

For assessing and reporting on the risks associated with your applications, you know you need Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). However, this quickly evolving space has many variables that security leaders may not realize. Here’s how you can elevate your security strategy by optimizing ASPM tools in a way that minimizes risks, enhances operational efficiency, and builds a robust security-aware culture in your organization.

Securing Enterprise Copilots: A Fresh (and Agent-less) Application Security Approach

Today, we are excited to announce a significant milestone in our journey to secure enterprise copilots and low-code development platforms by launching our new product; the Zenity AI Trust Layer. This new offering provides full security and governance control for enterprise copilots, and in the first step is focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot. The use of enterprise copilots is undeniably a story in low-code application development.

The Imperative of API Security in DevOps

Consider a modern software application as a constellation of cities that dot the landscape. These cities are components such as databases, authentication services, business logic engines, and more. Requests travel between components carrying data just as citizens travel between cities carrying their belongings. The highways that connect the cities on this map are your APIs. Cities get the most attention, often receiving the security and protection they need.

Empowering Developers in AppSec: Scaling and Metrics

This is the second instalment of a two-part blog post. The blogs are based on one of our “AppSec Talk” YouTube videos, featuring Kondukto Security Advisor Ben Strozykowski and Rami McCarthy, a seasoned security engineer with experience at Figma and Cedar Cares. In that video, Ben and Rami delved into the critical role developers play in the security program and the application security lifecycle.

Application Security for Cloud Native Applications

In the digital age, business leaders see software teams as core to the business and are demanding them to innovate faster in response to market and competitive demands. Organizations are on path of fast iteration - experimenting with new products or features, gauge customer feedback, adopt or drop and move to the next thing. The pace of change is not an option but existential for organizations. Organizations that can adapt will gain market shares and organizations that cannot, will cease to exist.

Empowering Teams for Better Security: A Conversation with Jigar Shah - Secrets of AppSec Champions

Developing a Security Culture: In today's highly digital and interconnected world, cybersecurity isn't just an IT issue; it's everyone's responsibility. Creating a robust security culture within your organization involves integrating security awareness into your daily operations. Train your employees, provide adequate resources, and define clear roles and responsibilities for security champions and influencers.

The Importance of Application Security Posture Management in Business

Application security posture management (ASPM) is a critical process for businesses today. It involves assessing and managing the security risks in business applications to protect against cyber threats. With advancing technology, cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated, making it crucial to maintain a robust application security posture. By doing so, businesses can prevent data breaches, ensure business continuity, and build customer trust.

Datadog On Secure Remote Updates

In modern dynamic environments there is a requirement to be able to quickly respond to signals and change the configuration of your applications and systems. As Datadog supports an ever widening set of customer use cases, it has become necessary to allow for updates to systems directly from Datadog's platform. In this session, host Rory McCune (Senior Advocate) will be joined by Arthur Bellal (Staff Engineer) and Paul Coignet (Software Engineer II) from the fleet automation team to discuss how Datadog approached the challenge of building out a secure remote update facility.

Protecting APIs of Modern Applications

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become the backbone of modern applications. They enable seamless interaction between different software systems, allowing businesses to innovate rapidly. With the proliferation of APIs comes an increased risk of security vulnerabilities. Ensuring API security is crucial to safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining user trust and protecting the integrity of applications.

Application Security - The Complete Guide

Application security is the combination of tools, practices, and policies that are used to protect the application layer of software from threat actors. Once something of an afterthought, application security is now widely and rightfully recognized as a vital part of the software development life cycle (SDLC). As the complexity of technology increases, considering application security early and often in the SDLC is imperative to keeping data and resources from falling into the wrong hands.

DevSecOps: From Culture to ROI

Wednesday, Sep 11th, 2024 DevSecOps: It sounds like a dream team, right? But the reality is often a bit more... challenging. When companies try to bring together development and security, it's like trying to mix oil and water. There are organizational roadblocks, cultural clashes, and technical headaches that can make the whole process feel like a never-ending uphill battle. The challenges of adopting DevSecOps may seem insurmountable. Is adopting DevSecOps worth the effort? Yes. One hundred percent.

Why ASPM is the Future of AppSec

ASPM (Application Security Posture Management) is the future of application security. It provides a centralized dashboard that gives security teams visibility into application assets and their relationships. ASPM also prioritizes risk based on context so you can focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most. This video will explore the challenges facing security teams today and how ASPM can help you overcome them.

Empowering Developers in AppSec: Triage and Collaboration

Historically, security programs have struggled when they fail to include developers and partner teams, often falling into the trap of focusing solely on the security team’s needs. This approach has led to a disconnect between security and development teams, resulting in ineffective vulnerability management and often strained relationships.

3 ways AppSec modernization is a game-changer for financial services

Today’s established financial services companies face high pressure from their competition. Many of them find that they must provide an innovative, customized customer experience (CX) or lose out to FinTech disruptors who are already doing CX well. As a result, these businesses are prioritizing innovative, feature-rich applications and adopting the latest and greatest in software development to speed up release cycles and increase productivity.

This Month in Datadog: App Builder, updates to Vulnerability Management and App Security, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Datadog App Builder.

Introducing the Mend AppSec Platform

According to Dimension Market Research, the global Application Security Market size is projected to “reach USD $9.6 billion by 2024 and is further anticipated to reach USD $47.3 billion by 2033 at a CAGR of 19.4%.” However, companies confront extensive barriers when developing reliable application security programs.

A look into Web Application Security

In today's digital age, web applications are the backbone of many businesses, supporting and managing a vast array of sensitive information, from personal details and financial records to critical business data. When we think about any company that we want to know more about, the most common question is: “what is their website”? But web applications are not just about traditional websites, they encompass far more than just the pages you go to when browsing the Internet.

Shifting From Reactivity to Proactivity in AppSec with Phil Guimond - Secrets of AppSec Champions

"In Episode 03 of the SAC | Secrets of AppSec Champions podcast titled ""Compromised: Proactive to Reactive,"" hosts Chris Lindsey and guest Phil Guimond tackle the critical distinctions between proactive and reactive security strategies. They emphasize the importance of access logging and visibility in detecting compromises early, pointing out how changes in access logs can signal potential threats. They stress the necessity of implementing secure, tamper-proof log storage and discuss automation solutions like the ""Have I Been Pwned"" API and CAPTCHA to mitigate risks such as account takeovers.

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