In this episode of AppSec Decoded, we discuss the major open source trends identified within the 2021 OSSRA report. The explosive growth of open source is not new. Developers have been using this collaborative method of building software applications to meet the market demands for quality and speed for many years. Synopsys has conducted research on trends in open source usage with commercial applications since 2015.
Your cybersecurity team walks into the office, and their day is instantly taken off the rails. They get an alert informing them that something on the network is acting suspiciously. It isn’t necessarily a threat, but they don’t have the tools to know for sure. After looking into it, they learn that a SaaS provider for one of their departments delivered an update that caused a service degradation. Thankfully, it isn’t an attack.
As organizations continue to adopt DevSecOps practices to deliver secure software, security ownership is an ever-critical consideration. Snyk recently held a roundtable with Twilio to discuss security ownership in 2021. In this post, we’ll recap the discussion between Guy Podjarny, President & Co-Founder of Snyk, and Yashvier Kosaraju, Senior Manager of Product Security at Twilio.
Cybercrime is one of the most significant threats facing companies today. With the average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.24 million , the business case for cybersecurity has never been stronger. Still, some businesses seem to misunderstand the urgency of meeting current cybersecurity standards. It may help to consider the legal consequences of poor cybersecurity.
Every once in a while, an industry term will get overused by marketing to the point of becoming a cliche. I think “Zero Trust” may have reached this threshold. In some ways, I understand why this is happening. Security perimeters have become obsolete as people use mobile devices and cloud applications to work from anywhere.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24 . One of the vulnerabilities patched against these tools security services use to access devices has been breached by them once again it seems.
No company is free from risks and vulnerabilities. No matter how robust the digital infrastructure or how strict the cybersecurity measures are, some level of residual risk will always remain. That’s why many organizations include penetration testing in their risk assessment and security program.
Cryptocurrency is a fantastic way for people to invest their money in a technologically progressive and versatile way. However, it is also subject to considerable volatility and, as the IRS’s June announcement of a huge $2.3 million confiscation indicated, insecurity. Cryptocurrency and the regulation that surrounds it is undergoing vast change, with market forces changing on a whim every single month.
