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How to Get RBI Certification: A Pentesting Playbook for Banks, NBFCs, and Fintechs (Astra Security)

Oct 31, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
If vulnerabilities were a currency, they’d be inflating faster than anything else in the world. According to Astra’s State of Continuous Pentesting Report, 5.33 new ones are discovered every minute, i.e., by the time you’ve finished this paragraph, dozens more doors have swung open for attackers.
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Threat-Led Penetration Testing by Astra Security

Oct 29, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
Basic security audits won’t stop ransomware criminals who move faster than most teams can deploy patches, especially now, as supply chain attacks leverage trusted partners, and advanced persistent threats (APTs) hide undetected in networks for months. Fifty-two percent of organizations worldwide report at least one supply chain partner targeted by ransomware, putting their own networks dangerously at risk.
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Autumn 2025 Product Updates: What's New at Astra Security

Oct 27, 2025 By Rithika In Astra
Security reviews are changing. More buyers want live, verifiable proof of your security posture and not a static PDF that changes by dawn. Astra Trust Center helps teams answer due diligence questions upfront, cutting back-and-forth questionnaires and keeping deals moving. At the same time, attackers aren’t getting more creative, just more effective. The 2025 Verizon DBIR found that 88% of Basic Web Application Attacks involved stolen credentials.
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What is Shadow IT? Risks, Detection Methods & How to Manage Them

Oct 20, 2025 By Sumit Singh In Astra
Today, with a rise of 48% in remote-first teams in the global workforce and generative AI, employees are increasingly bypassing IT for speed, exposing entire enterprises to the risk. Shadow IT now covers unauthorized SaaS, OAuth grant chains, shadow APIs, and even unapproved AI agents that process your most sensitive data without your knowledge. This guide answers what is Shadow IT?
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CERT-In SBOM Guidelines 2025: What Fintech Companies Must Know

Oct 20, 2025 By Sumit Singh In Astra
UPI fraud spiked 85% in FY 2024, reaching ₹1,087 crore. Most of it traced back to vulnerabilities in third-party APIs and unpatched components that fintechs didn’t know they were running. As such, in July 2025, CERT-In released SBOM Guidelines 2.0, making Software Bills of Materials mandatory for all government, public, and essential services orgs, while encouraging others to adopt it as best practice. For CTOs and CISOs, the message is direct.
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Top 13 Web Application Penetration Testing Tools

Oct 16, 2025 By Saumick Basu In Astra
Web application penetration testing refers to a security assessment process where ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks on a web application to identify vulnerabilities, exploit weaknesses, and provide actionable insights to enhance security posture. But, with a continuously evolving landscape and an ocean of vendors, how do you choose the best web pentest tool for your company and security needs?
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17 Most Popular Penetration Testing Tools in 2025

Oct 16, 2025 By Ananda Krishna In Astra
With the global cost of cybercrimes estimated to reach 9.2 trillion in 2024, which is Japan’s GDP doubled, it is more critical now than ever to mitigate threats posed by attackers. As a business owner or security analyst, how can you mitigate such threats? While hundreds of penetration testing tools promise complete cybersecurity solutions for enterprises and analysts, finding the perfect match that suits your needs can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Continuous Security in the Age of AI: Moving Beyond Point-in-Time (VAPT) Testing

Oct 14, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
As AI speeds up development, traditional quarterly or annual pentests just can’t keep pace. In this session, leaders from Astra Security and ValueWave discuss how to move toward continuous security—a proactive approach that evolves with your code, your cloud, and your team. What You’ll Learn Speaker: Ujwal Ratra, COO – Astra Security Highlights: Key Takeaways Security can’t be a quarterly event - it must be continuous. Combine automation with expert validation, use AI to find real issues faster, and make every release more secure by design.
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A Practical DORA Compliance Testing Checklist

Oct 13, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a legislative measure of the European Union designed to enhance the digital operational resilience of financial institutions. It has been in effect since January 17, 2025. Drafted to ensure that banks, insurance companies, and other financial intermediaries, as well as stock exchanges and trading platforms, can withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT (Information and Communication Technology) disruptions.
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CMMC 2.0 Certification: Your Survival Guide

Oct 13, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
Most defense contractors focus on winning contracts, delivering on time, and maintaining quality. However, the reality is that without CMMC certification, you won’t even qualify to bid. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification exists for one primary reason: to protect the defense industrial base from >$600 billion annual cost of intellectual property theft (per Forbes) targeting defense information.
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Top 7 Online Penetration Testing Tools in 2025

Oct 9, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
Online penetration testing is a proactive cybersecurity practice that aims to identify vulnerabilities in your web app, network, mobile application, or infrastructure. Think of it as your digital security guardian scrutinizing your defenses by stimulating real cyber intrusions remotely. Before we get into the debate of which online penetration testing tool is the best for you, want to see the power of online penetration testing in action? Try our free website scanner!
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13 Top Dynamic Application Security Testing Software (DAST Tools) for 2025

Oct 5, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
Dynamic application security testing tools help you proactively test the production-ready application for critical security vulnerabilities, eventually contributing to your shift from DevOps to DevSecOps. Our security experts have handpicked the top 13 DAST tools, focusing on your non-negotiables, such as security test coverage, pricing, functionality, compliance testing, deployment, integrations, and continuous pentest capabilities.
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