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How to strengthen compliance across the software development life cycle by shifting left

Mar 25, 2025 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
Maintaining compliance and minimizing security risks has become more complex than ever before. Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 require organizations to implement strict measures to protect customer data, secure their network and systems, and respond to audit investigations.
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How to secure HTTP headers in your synthetic tests

Mar 24, 2025 By Addie Beach In Datadog
HTTP headers are a crucial part of web app network communication. These headers are fields within HTTP responses and requests that provide specifications for activities like data handling and session verification, helping clients and servers effectively relay messages to each other. They often contain a wealth of valuable information, including client IP addresses, authorization credentials, and device model details.
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Key metrics for measuring your organization's security posture

Mar 18, 2025 By Mallory Mooney In Datadog
In today’s evolving cloud landscape, balancing security and compliance is becoming increasingly more challenging. Security is essential for protecting an organization’s applications, resources, and data from threats, while compliance ensures a commitment to building services that align with industry standards. Although these goals overlap as key components of a strong security posture, they require distinct approaches that can be challenging to integrate.
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Monitor your organization's security posture with Datadog

Mar 18, 2025 By Mallory Mooney In Datadog
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at metrics that offer insight into the effectiveness of your threat detection systems and team response during a security incident. With this information, you have a starting point for identifying gaps in your organization’s security posture and the ability to respond to threats.
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Scared or Ready: A Pragmatic Way to Approach Security Threats

Mar 12, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Security incidents are often making headlines, from ransomware to colossal data leaks. On top of that, making informed security decisions is a challenge in itself, requiring knowledge across product requirements, complex distributed systems, code, architecture, and security. All of which creates a sense of fear, uncertainty, and doubt for those of us who build software. How can we better prepare to respond to potential threats and gain confidence in our security incident response readiness?
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Identify gaps to strengthen detection coverage with the Datadog Cloud SIEM MITRE ATT&CK Map

Mar 10, 2025 By Amanda Quach In Datadog
Security analysts need clear visibility into potential threats to proactively defend against cyberattacks. Defining these threats can be challenging, but many security teams rely on the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a foundational resource for strengthening their defenses. While security platforms tag detections with MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, analysts often struggle to assess their overall coverage across different attack surfaces.
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Understanding your WAF: How to address common gaps in web application security

Mar 6, 2025 By Emile Spir In Datadog
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are one of the most commonly used tools that organizations deploy to protect their applications at runtime. By monitoring HTTP traffic and filtering out suspicious requests, WAFs act as a protective layer around an application that protects it from certain types of incoming threats. However, WAFs often fall short of expectations.
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Detect cross-account access risks in AWS with Datadog

Mar 5, 2025 By Mallory Mooney In Datadog
Managing access across multiple AWS accounts is a popular approach to isolating workloads and data. While it provides several benefits to organizing the various operational requirements for the environment, it introduces additional complexity for managing IAM policies and workload permissions. A primary concern is assigning too many permissions to any one source, which increases the risk of an attacker moving within the environment undetected.
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Securing Datadog's cloud infrastructure: Our playbook and methodology

Mar 3, 2025 By Tim Gonda In Datadog
At Datadog, we build and operate a complex, self-managed infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and serves many customers in regulated environments. We need to secure this large, distributed infrastructure while maintaining strict uptime requirements and scaling our finite people resources. In this post, I’ll detail the playbook that we use on Datadog’s Cloud Security team for securing our infrastructure, including.
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Detect and respond to evolving attacks with Attacker Clustering

Feb 26, 2025 By Emmanuelle Lejeail In Datadog
In today’s threat landscape, detecting and responding to distributed attacks is more challenging than ever. Attackers often operate in stealth, using coordinated strategies to blend into normal traffic and evade detection. To address this issue, Datadog Application Security Management (ASM) has a new clustering feature designed to identify and group attacker behaviors during distributed attacks.
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