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Salt Security Continues to Innovate as Leader in API Security

The API security landscape is changing rapidly, and cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated. According to the Salt Labs State of API Security Report 2024, API security incidents have more than doubled in the past 12 months, while API usage is rapidly increasing. Organizations are finding it challenging to keep up with the threats associated with expanding API ecosystems and fully understand their complex behavioral attributes.

Wiz and Netskope: Making IaaS Zero Trust Magic

Netskope and Wiz help organizations simplify and automate policy management across complex cloud environments. This partnership highlights the seamless integration between Wiz sharing security risk and threat insights to enable Netskope to modify existing policies or craft new ones automatically. Below, we present two of the primary use cases that customers leverage with our joint integration.

A brief introduction to Industrial Control Systems and Security

You may not know it, but much of your daily life depends on Industrial Control Systems(ICSs). From the power you're using right now to the water you drink, it all depends on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and other ICS tech to be delivered. In fact, nearly any time something in the physical world needs to be automated, there will be an ICS involved.

Effective Board Communication: Lessons from CrowdStrike for CISOs

The 2024 CrowdStrike Incident blue-screened Microsoft computers worldwide, causing significant disruptions to high-profile industries such as transportation, healthcare, and financial services. Now that the world has largely recovered, the most forward-minded chief information security officers (CISOs) are focusing on using the incident as an opportunity for continuous improvement. How can they prevent similar incidents from having such a disastrous impact on their organization in the future?

2024 State of Secrets Report

With the rise in collaboration apps like Slack, GitHub, and ChatGPT, it’s easy for employees and customers alike to share secrets in messages, files, repos, and other places where they shouldn’t be shared. Though this so-called “secret sprawl” may seem trivial at first, all it takes is one misplaced password or API key for a threat actor to escalate their privileges and access your organization’s crown jewels: Your data.

Monitor Akamai Zero Trust and Application Security with Datadog Cloud SIEM

Akamai is a cloud content delivery and security platform that helps organizations secure their applications, APIs, network access, and credentials that workforces and customers use every day. Akamai Zero Trust provides enhanced security for users, devices, and data across an organization by securing access to the corporate network, SaaS applications, email, and other resources.

Application vulnerability management best practices

Over the years, application vulnerability management has been vital to DevSecOps — which emphasizes shared security responsibility across teams. However, as development practices have evolved, security teams must learn how to adapt and meet developers within their existing workflows. For example, containerization, infrastructure as code (IaC) AI coding assistants, and increased reliance on third-party code are all commonplace in the typical development lifecycle.