Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

How do you build a successful AppSec program? Today, we’re focusing on an area where we have great evidence for a specific best practice – Repository Integration. Choosing where to deploy SCA scans can have a major impact on the success of your AppSec program. You can boost the value of Mend SCA by scanning in your repositories, and we want to show you how!

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks. With a proven track record of successfully meeting complex and large-scale application security needs, Mend.io is the go-to technology for the world’s most demanding development and security teams. The company has more than 1,000 customers, including 25 percent of the Fortune 100, and manages Renovate, the open source automated dependency update project.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.