As the use of open source has grown, so has the number of vulnerabilities. Uncover the latest findings from the 2021 OSSRA report. Open source libraries are the foundation for every application in every industry. But paralleling the popularity of open source is a growth in risk—specifically around open source licensing, security, code quality, and especially open source sustainability.
President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order requires new software security standards and best practices. Learn what you can do to prepare now. By: Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist, Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) and Adam Isles, Principal, The Chertoff Group On Wednesday, May 12, President Biden signed an extensive Executive Order (E.O.) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The E.O.
How can you successfully navigate open source license compliance? Start with the right tools to identify your dependences and calculate their risks. What if you have an open source software package licensed under a permissive license like the Apache or MIT, but inside that package are dependencies licensed under a restrictive license like the General Public License (GPL)? What are some best practices to follow?
Ready to transition your organization to DevSecOps but unsure of where to begin? Get started with our top 10 DevSecOps best practices. By: Sneha Kokil, associate principal consultant, and Arvind Balaji, associate principal consultant, at Synopsys. While the software industry celebrates a decade of DevOps, there’s an increasing drive toward adopting DevSecOps and making security a part of software from early on.
AppSec shouldn’t compromise velocity. Learn how Intelligent Orchestration optimizes AppSec testing while removing complexity from DevOps toolchains. To stay competitive, organizations are embracing digital transformation and innovating at record speed. In order to achieve this, they’re embracing agility through processes such as DevOps, site reliability engineering, GitOps, and more.
Cyber security experts weigh in on what we’ve learned about President Biden’s cyber security strategy in his first 100 days in office. President Joe Biden declared in mid-December, more than a month before he took office, that cyber security would be a “top priority” of his administration. It should be. The digital world, as we are all now reminded daily, has a direct impact on the real world, for better and worse.
Understand how the Synopsys partner ecosystem can help your organization address your software quality and application security challenges. To build secure, high-quality software in today’s challenging environment, organizations need world-class partnerships backed by industry-leading software quality and application security products and services.
Automation, when done properly, can improve the productivity, quality, safety and security in your software development. Automation isn’t just a “nice-to-have” element of modern business. It’s a “must-have.” Companies simply can’t compete on multiple levels—quality, speed to market, safety, and security—if they rely on manual tools and processes.
5G is faster than its predecessor but that doesn’t change the approach to software security for your applications. Some wild claims have been made about 5G networking. I’ve heard mention of self-healing factories and smart highway systems. While such things might be possible, there’s nothing magical about 5G. In essence, it’s just faster wireless networking than we’ve had before. That’s nice, but hardly revolutionary.
Are today’s mobile apps secure or do they offer opportunities for attackers? Learn about the state of mobile application security in our new report. Synopsys recently released a report, “Peril in a Pandemic: The State of Mobile Application Security,” produced by its Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), examining the state of mobile application security during the COVID-19 pandemic.
