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Avoiding common integration pitfalls that set your organization back is critical in today’s fast-paced software development landscape. In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, DevOps has become the go-to approach for organizations looking to accelerate their application delivery. However, ensuring the security of applications in a DevOps environment is no small feat.

Software vulnerability patching plays a critical role in safeguarding your code base, software, applications, computer systems, and networks against potential threats, and ensuring they’re compliant, and optimized for efficiency. Organizations’ codebases have become increasingly complex, involving sophisticated relationships between components and their dependencies.

Imagine, if you will, that you are the esteemed ruler of a vast digital dominion, and your applications are the lifeblood of your realm. Yet, in the boundless expanse of cyberspace, there lurk dragons of the most fearsome kind—cyber threats, data breaches, and hackers. You require a champion, a Managed Application Security Provider (MASP), to safeguard your kingdom. But how, pray tell, does one select the right one?

AppSec integrations can help keep development secure at the speed your business requires. Whether you’re building software, selling it, or using it to run your business, in today’s fully digitized environment, every business is, necessarily, a software business. And to keep your business running at the speed today’s competitive environment requires, you increasingly depend on technology.

Reducing complexity and providing insight into software risk, consolidation is the wave of the application security testing future. As the convergence of economic and practical factors increases pressure on organizations to streamline their application security (AppSec) initiatives, consolidation is emerging as a practical solution.

With the proliferation of data breaches and cyber-attacks, developers must take a proactive approach to security. BoxyHQ's Security Building Blocks for Developers are designed to help developers build and deploy secure applications with minimal effort and expertise. In addition to their core products security teams are finding it hard to keep pace with new no-code and low-code apps that are being created in the company.

We are excited to announce the inaugural edition of the Mend.io Open-Source Reliability Leaderboard! Powered by data from Renovate, the wildly popular open-source dependency management tool, the Leaderboard presents the top packages in terms of reliability across three of the most widely used languages.

This is the second article in our Application Security 101 mini-series. Read our first blog on how to configure HTTP response headers with security best practices. This time we’re going to discuss another misconfiguration that we often find during website penetration testing. This is not necessarily a ‘vulnerability’, however information disclosure via HTTP response headers can provide exact version information of the web server or web technologies in use on the underlying host.