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

Eliminate malicious code in your software supply chain

What is malicious code? What makes it dangerous? Learn how can you detect it and keep it out of your software supply chain. Everyone wants to believe that the code developed within a trusted software supply chain is legitimate. The unfortunate reality is that malicious coders have subtle ways to secretly embed code that exposes your business to risk. Malicious code can be challenging to recognize and can remain undetected within applications long before it causes damage. Learn to recognize the red flags.

Application Vulnerability Management demo

Application Vulnerability Management provides continuous, real-time vulnerability detection across applications in production. See how you can use Application Vulnerability Management to identify, prioritize, and resolve high-impact vulnerabilities exposed in production, without any performance overhead.

Risk Management is a Team Sport with Emilio Escobar

Datadog's Chief Information Security Officer, Emilio Escobar, discusses how organizations are reducing silos between devops and security teams in order to effectively manage security risks. In order to provide secure defaults, decentralized security, and rapid response to security events with deep context, Datadog embeds security at all different levels and scales its program by utilizing security ambassadors and engineers.

AppSec Decoded: Raising the security bar in DevSecOps | Synopsys

Tracking the right metrics is essential in DevSecOps as it helps measure the effectiveness of your security program. Clint Gibler, head of security research at Semgrep, discusses how teams can raise their security bar with useful measurement metrics, as well as how to identify high ROI security investments for their DevSecOps program.

Threat modeling with Datadog Application Security Management

Threat modeling is a critical part of building high-performing, secure systems. It is responsible for “analyzing representations of a system to highlight concerns about security and privacy characteristics.”1 Creating an effective threat model involves two main steps: system modeling to map out all existing system components and the relationships between them, and threat elicitation to identify areas in the system that could be vulnerable to a security issue.