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Application Security

The latest News and Information on Application Security including monitoring, testing, and open source.

Mend.io's Rhys Arkins, VP Product Discussing Mend Renovate Enterprise Edition

Reduce Technical Debt with Scalable Automated Dependency Management Regularly maintaining and updating dependencies is crucial to ensuring application security, but in today’s high-volume development world, companies often struggle to balance security risk with development deadlines. Renovate Enterprise Edition helps teams cut technical debt while still meeting deadlines using a solution built for the needs of enterprise development teams. Now, companies can provision as many resources as they like to cover the size and scale of their entire organization without suffering performance problems due to resource limitations.

Mend Renovate Product Family Demo

Mend Renovate scans your software, discovers dependencies, automatically checks to see if an updated version exists, and submits automated pull requests. Mend.io provides Renovate as an open source solution as part of our support for the developer community. For those customers that need a fully scalable, fully supported, fully automated solution, we offer Renovate Enterprise Edition.

Accelerate modern development with Polaris pull request comments support | Synopsys

Integrate seamlessly into your SCM and DevOps pipelines. Learn how teams can effortlessly provide automatic feedback on new issues, without slowing down workflows. With Polaris in your pipelines, access both SAST and SCA findings directly within GitHub as comments on pull requests. Streamline triage, audit, policy, and reporting—all conveniently stored in Polaris.

Introducing Synopsys Polaris with branching support | Synopsys

Unlock the power of modern app development with the latest Polaris feature: Branching support. Developers can now seamlessly scan multiple branches, identify vulnerabilities, and eliminate any critical blind spot early in the development and DevOps process. Branching support provides more transparency and visibility into scanning activities, allowing more secure code to be developed across organizations.

Integrations to elevate your DevSecOps program

In this blog series, we’ve covered how AppSec integrations can enable a more secure SDLC, avoiding pitfalls when integrating AppSec for DevOps, and how to use integrations to automate security risk information collection and delivery. So let’s wrap up this series by taking a look at how an Integrated DevSecOps program can help future-proof your AppSec program.

Holistic AppSec and Software Supply Chain Security

AppSec and software supply chain security require more than a loose collection of tools and a vulnerability remediation process. A holistic approach covers risk assessment, a secure software development life cycle, software composition analysis (SCA), SBOMs, static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), workflow automation, automated remediation, runtime protections, compliance reporting and more. Successful implementation of this holistic approach enables companies to shrink their overall attack surface and reduce technical and security debt.

Container Images - Code Source

Mend for GitHub.com Code Source provides a streamlined and highly effective approach to tracing vulnerabilities back to their source code in repositories. Mend’s proprietary labeling achieves this by adding the source repository URL and the Dockerfile path to your Dockerfile using OCI annotations, saving you time in researching risks detected on your built container images.

Operationalizing DevSecOps Roundtable

DevSecOps best practices are increasingly being adopted to better secure software supply chains. The challenge, though, is finding ways to operationalize these processes so they’re seamless and development and deployment don’t slow down. Join Shiri Arad Ivtsan, Senior Director of Product Management – Mend.io, in this editorial roundtable as these experts explore the challenges DevOps teams and developers face in operationalizing security into their workflows and processes, what’s taking so long to do so and how AI and automation can help.

Malicious Packages Special Report - Attacks Move Beyond Vulnerabilities

Threat actors are after our sensitive data. In 2023, the number of malicious packages published to Node Package Manager (npm) and RubyGems ballooned 315% compared to 2021, and 85% of malicious packages discovered in existing applications were capable of exfiltration – meaning they could cause an unauthorized transmission of information. Software packages containing malicious code are a growing threat, and they may have unknowingly infiltrated your applications.

AWS and Mend.io Webinar: Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs

Organizations of all kinds are experiencing increasing volumes, frequency, and severity of cyberattacks. 71% of IT and security leaders say that their portfolio of applications has become more vulnerable in the last year alone, and cybercrime is expected to cost companies worldwide around $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. To fight this trend, organizations need a resilient AppSec strategy that can reinforce trust, reliability, and security when faced with adverse conditions.