With the enormous utilization of the internet and business goals to save additional expenses, SaaS applications are coming to light. Such applications are now running in every organization, handling extensive confidential information. Therefore, it makes firms focus more on understanding SaaS application security. So, we have curated the most prominent SaaS app security aspects, covering the primary user’s perspective from each end. Let’s have a look at it.

This is the fifth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. While IT and security professionals all generally agree that cyberattacks are on the rise, there remains a great deal of disparity in how they choose to prepare for those attacks.

You may have seen mention of a “passwordless future” – the concept of simpler authentication and no passwords. That future is rapidly approaching, and we’re excited to share a glimpse of it with you today.

Businesses are more vulnerable to cybercrime now than ever before. Hackers are getting smarter and more sophisticated, and they are constantly coming up with new ways to exploit businesses online. If you want to protect your business from cybercrime, you need to be aware of the top 5 cyber threats that are facing businesses today. In this blog post, we will discuss each of these threats in detail and provide tips on how you can protect your business from them.

As the new year draws closer, we’ve asked our experts here at Netskope to see what they have on their radar for 2023. Similar to years past, we’ve broken these predictions out into “Long Shots,” more out-there predictions we think could potentially happen in the next year, and “Trending Topics,” predictions around topics you may have seen discussed a bit this year but digging into how we expect them to evolve. Here’s what our experts see for 2023.

The many benefits of microservices architecture, such as improved scalability and agility, explain why organizations are migrating from the traditional monolithic architecture. However, these benefits come at the cost of increased complexity, especially regarding security. According to an O’Reilly survey, 56% of respondents considered increased complexity the greatest challenge in developing microservices.

Citing senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials, journalistsreported on November 8 that DDoS attacks had temporarily disabled the website of a state government. A group claiming to be pro-Russian hacktivists, CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn, claimed responsibility for that attack and another on the website of a U.S. political party’s governing body on the same day, specifying one target IP address for each organization.

Read also: An FBI-wanted leader of the “Zeus” gang arrested in Geneva, hundreds of Amazon RDS instances leak personal data, and more.

A first of its kind survey looks at the relationship between open-source and K8s security. Today DevOps and security teams who deploy Kubernetes are forced to make a difficult choice between two security realities. They can either commit to a proprietary solution that they can’t adapt, access its code, influence the roadmap or contribute to its future. Or they can use open-source tools. But then they’ll end up attempting to integrate several of these tools together.

CRED, a fintech company and BSIMM member since early 2022, underwent a BSIMM assessment to benchmark their security processes. CRED, launched in 2018, provides financial services and lifestyle features, and has been a member of the BSIMM community since early 2022. CRED provides a wide variety of product offerings from lifestyle to personal finance.