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  |  By Phil Odence
Code snippets copied from copyleft-licensed open source projects represented the biggest risk in software 15 years ago. The Heartbleed vulnerability, discovered in April 2014, brought to the fore concerns about the security of open source components, and license risk took a bit of a back seat. But the problem never went away. Now, the advent of Generative AI as a tool for writing software is shining a new light on the issue.
  |  By Debrup Ghosh
IoT devices are ubiquitous in our daily lives—whether it’s at home with connected home automation devices, or at work with connected factories, hospitals, and even connected cars. According to data-gathering and visualization firm Statista, there was an estimated 15.9 billion IoT devices in use in 2023, and that number is expected to climb to more than 32.1 billion in 2030.
  |  By Rod Musser
Software applications are becoming more sophisticated every day. As a result, organizations often struggle to manage the complexity and operational costs of securing them.
  |  By Mike Lyman
In early March 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its final Secure Software Development Attestation Form instructions, sparking a renewed urgency around understanding and complying with 31 of the 42 tasks in NIST SP 800-218 Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) version 1.1.
  |  By Patrick Carey
Generative AI has emerged as the next big thing that will transform the way we build software. Its impact will be as significant as open source, mobile devices, cloud computing—indeed, the internet itself. We’re seeing Generative AI’s impacts already, and according to the recent Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, AI may ultimately be able to automate as much as 30% of the work done by developers.
  |  By Synopsys Editorial Team
The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has exposed prompt injection vulnerabilities in the EmailGPT service. EmailGPT is an API service and Google Chrome extension that assists users in writing emails inside Gmail using OpenAI's GPT models. The service uses an API service that allows a malicious user to inject a direct prompt and take over the service logic. Attackers can exploit the issue by forcing the AI service to leak the standard hard-coded system prompts and/or execute unwanted prompts.
  |  By Synopsys Editorial Team
The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has exposed a data poisoning vulnerability in the EmbedAI application. EmbedAI allows users to interact with documents by utilizing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). This vulnerability could result in an application becoming compromised, leading to unauthorized entries or data poisoning attacks.
  |  By Fred Bals
Released by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Synopsys, the 2024 “The State of Software Supply Chain Security Risks” report surveys over 1,200 global IT and security practitioners on challenges their organizations face in securing the software supply chain. Here are six key findings from the report every cybersecurity professional should know.
  |  By Corey Hamilton
We're excited to announce the availability of Polaris Assist, our AI-powered application security assistant that combines decades of real-world insights with a powerful large language model (LLM). Polaris Assist gives security and development teams easy-to-understand summaries of detected vulnerabilities and code fix recommendations to help them build secure software faster.
  |  By Mike McGuire
A necessary step in securing an application is evaluating the supply chain of each component used to create the application—no matter how many hands were involved in its development. If any links in the supply chain are obscured, it can be difficult to confidently assess the amount of risk that an application is susceptible to.
  |  By Synopsys
Join David Bohannan, an R&D engineer at Black Duck, as he demonstrates using Black Duck's IDE plug-in, Code Sight to run static analysis on Python code within Visual Studio. Watch as Code Sight instantly detects vulnerabilities like OS command injection and cross-site request forgery while code is being written, helping developers fix issues early in the software lifecycle. David will demonstrate how leveraging Coverity's Rapid Scanning engine through Code Sight can allow developers to tackle issues such as secret scanning and ensure hardcoded secrets are flagged before they become risks to applications further downstream.
  |  By Synopsys
Did you know that open source code constitutes up to 95% of the code in your applications? This creates a web of dependencies that can pose security, quality, and compliance risks. Watch the video to streamline your SBOM generation process and take control of your software supply chain. Black Duck provides a solution by helping you generate an accurate software bill of materials (SBOM) in minutes, giving you visibility into your software supply chain.
  |  By Synopsys
Black Duck BSIMM Assessments helps organizations plan, implement, and measure their software security initiatives. A BSIMM assessment provides an objective, data-driven evaluation that leaders seeking to improve their security postures can use to base decisions about resources, time, budget, and priorities.
  |  By Synopsys
Black Duck is the market leader in application security testing (AST). With the most comprehensive, powerful, and trusted portfolio of application security solutions in the industry, we help organizations worldwide build trust in their software.
  |  By Synopsys
In this video you will discover how Coverity’s Rapid Scan Static Analysis can help developers find and fix vulnerabilities in their code early in the development cycle by providing quick feedback on the most impactful issues. This new update in the Coverity 2024.6.0 release highlights how developers can run quick scans for C# applications via the Coverity Rapid Scan Static engine; returning quick and accurate static analysis results related to issues such as deserialization, hardcoded secrets, unsafe API calls, single-file data flow, etc. at record speeds.
  |  By Synopsys
Polaris Assist is a virtual assistant that combines generative AI with decades of Synopsys curated real-world vulnerability, risk, and secure coding data to simplify and streamline application security. Polaris Assist AI capabilities will first be introduced on the Polaris Software Integrity Platform by analyzing static analysis data.
  |  By Synopsys
We’re in the AppSec business so you can be in the whatever-amazing-thing-it-is-you-do business. We help transform the way you build and deliver software securely because our true business is helping your business. Build trust in your software.
  |  By Synopsys
In this video, Product Manager, Scott Tolley shows how setting up the new Project Views feature in Seeker can help developers focus their time and attention on the most relevant vulnerability findings in running applications– without hiding the full details from security team. This new feature lets security and development teams...
  |  By Synopsys
In this video, we introduce the new Black Duck Supply Chain Edition, which provides a full range of supply chain security capabilities to teams responsible for building secure, compliant applications. With third-party SBOM import and analysis, malware detection, and export options in SPDX or CycloneDX formats, teams can establish complete supply chain visibility, identify and mitigate risk, and align with customer and industry requirements.
  |  By Synopsys
Polaris Software Integrity Platform is the first no compromise cloud-based application security solution that meets the diverse needs of Development, DevOps, and Security teams.
  |  By Synopsys
You've realized you need to do a better job of tracking and managing your open source as well as the vulnerabilities and licenses associated with it. How hard can vulnerability management be? Do you really need special tools? After all, the license and vulnerability information is publicly available. Once you get a list of open source components and do some Google searching, you should be all set, right?
  |  By Synopsys
Open source components are the foundation of every software application in every industry. But, its many benefits can often lead its consumers to overlook how open source affects the security of their application.
  |  By Synopsys
More than 11.5 billion records with sensitive information were breached between January 2005 and January 2019 (PrivacyRights.org). If your business stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data, it's imperative that you implement standard security procedures and technologies to prevent the theft of this sensitive information. Start by ensuring you're in compliance with the technical and operational requirements set by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
  |  By Synopsys
Just like most software assets contain open source, modern software applications commonly link to external web services via APIs. But developers using web services might not have a suitable agreement to do so, and they may be inadvertently signing their companies up to terms of service. This white paper covers the types of risk associated with web services and how they can affect an M&A transaction.
  |  By Synopsys
Threat modeling promotes the idea of thinking like an attacker. It enables organization to build software with security considerations, rather than addresssing security as an afterthought. However, there are some very common misconceptions tha can cause firms to lose their grip around the threat modeling process. This eBook shines a light onto the essentials and helps to get your bearings straight with all things related to threat modeling.
  |  By Synopsys
Are your developers getting discouraged by too many false positives from security tools that slow them down? You need a solution that boosts their productivity, finds real vulnerabilities, and provides expert remediation guidance. Coverity will help you achieve this and more. Learn how you can assess the ROI of implementing Coverity into your SDLC, quickly build secure applications, and accelerate your software velocity.

Synopsys solutions help you manage security and quality risks comprehensively, across your organization and throughout the application life cycle.

Synopsys helps development teams build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Synopsys, a recognized leader in static analysis, software composition analysis, and application security testing, is uniquely positioned to apply best practices across proprietary code, open source, and the runtime environment. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Synopsys helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Build secure, high-quality software faster:

  • Integrate security into your DevOps environment: Integrate and automate application security testing with the development and deployment tools you use today.
  • Build a holistic AppSec program across your organization: Ensure your people, processes, and technology are aligned to defend against cyber attacks on the software you build and operate.
  • Get on-demand security testing for any application: Extend the reach of your application security team with cost-effective security testing by our team of experts.
  • Find and fix quality and compliance issues early in development: Maximize software reliability, minimize downstream maintenance headaches, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
  • Identify open source, code quality, and security risks during M&A: Avoid surprises that can materially impact the value of software assets your company acquires.
  • Assess your AppSec threats, risks, and dependencies: Go beyond security testing to understand likely cyber attack vectors and targets, as well as design flaws that can lead to security breaches.

Any software. Any development model. Any stage. Synopsys has you covered.