GitGuardian's Lead security engineer, Kayssar Daher, shares his team's successes, challenges, and results of the past year.

Gartner projects that by 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will have established platform engineering teams. The vision of platform engineering is ambitious: to empower developers with all the flexibility they need while minimizing complexity. This approach has already transformed infrastructure, deployment, data analytics, encryption management, authentication, and more.

We’re delighted to share that Business Intelligence Group has recognized WatchGuard Endpoint Security as a 2024 Fortress Cybersecurity Award winner! The annual awards program recognizes the world's leading companies and individuals who are at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation. Winners are selected based on their dedication to developing solutions, raising awareness, and defending against the growing threat of cyberattacks.

Software applications are becoming more sophisticated every day. As a result, organizations often struggle to manage the complexity and operational costs of securing them.

Ten years ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 1.0 following an Executive Order from President Obama to help companies and governments facing cybersecurity attacks. In 2014, data breaches were escalating. Major Fortune 500 companies and household names, such as Target, Yahoo, 7-11, Visa, and more, experienced heaps of customer data theft, online fraud and attacks from malware.

Confused and want to know what in the world web scraping is and how it works? Well you’ve come to the right place because we’re about to lay down everything for you. Before we dive in, I can already tell you the short version: Web scraping is the process of extracting publicly available data from a website. Join us to learn more about the specifics, how it works, and popular libraries that exist.

As organizations consider their journey to establishing a strong Zero Trust culture, they must adopt a data-centric approach, and this begins with ensuring database security. Data, or more specifically, knowing your data, is at the heart of Zero Trust. This means databases must be considered critical assets with the appropriate security considerations applied.

In the age of generative AI, data security is a key concern for organizations to manage. In my previous blog post, I dug into how modern SSE technology helps to better secure genAI. The recently published ebook Securing GenAI for Dummies offers further clarity on strategies organizations can use when it comes to securing and enabling genAI apps. With that in mind, we’ve compiled 10 essential questions to keep in mind as you assess your data security, along with how Netskope can help address them.