This is the fourth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. With new headlines every day about organizations that have been targeted by cyberattackers, it’s not surprising that 75 percent of organizations assume they’re likely to have a breach in the next three years.
The increased use of open-source software components in application development exposes companies to security vulnerabilities and liability related to software licensing. To mitigate these risks, software development organizations are turning to Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, which identify security and license compliance issues in code.
Last week, the OpenSSL Project announced that on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1300-1700 (UTC), they will release OpenSSL version 3.0.7 to address a critical CVE.
At this point, anybody in the IT world would have to be living in a cave in the wilderness to not know that October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. (And since there’s no Wi-Fi in wilderness caves, that scenario is admittedly unlikely.) This week, I wanted to take a closer look at a couple topics, one for work and one at home.
This is the third of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles.
At 12 years old, Go is a relatively new programming language–but it’s a popular one when it comes to cloud-native computing. CockroachDB, Docker, Kubernetes, and AdGuardHome (byAdGuard) are all built on Go, and the Go GitHub repository has over 105,000 stars, putting it in third place as a GitHub star leader.
This is the second of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. It’s no exaggeration to say that IT and application security teams from all organizations are facing a perfect storm.
