Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Software vulnerability patching plays a critical role in safeguarding your code base, software, applications, computer systems, and networks against potential threats, and ensuring they’re compliant, and optimized for efficiency. Organizations’ codebases have become increasingly complex, involving sophisticated relationships between components and their dependencies.

Imagine, if you will, that you are the esteemed ruler of a vast digital dominion, and your applications are the lifeblood of your realm. Yet, in the boundless expanse of cyberspace, there lurk dragons of the most fearsome kind—cyber threats, data breaches, and hackers. You require a champion, a Managed Application Security Provider (MASP), to safeguard your kingdom. But how, pray tell, does one select the right one?

We are excited to announce the inaugural edition of the Mend.io Open-Source Reliability Leaderboard! Powered by data from Renovate, the wildly popular open-source dependency management tool, the Leaderboard presents the top packages in terms of reliability across three of the most widely used languages.

This is the second article in our Application Security 101 mini-series. Read our first blog on how to configure HTTP response headers with security best practices. This time we’re going to discuss another misconfiguration that we often find during website penetration testing. This is not necessarily a ‘vulnerability’, however information disclosure via HTTP response headers can provide exact version information of the web server or web technologies in use on the underlying host.