A security violation in the form of a data breach can create costly damage to a company's reputation. But what exactly is a data breach? The European Commission has divided data breaches into three distinct categories — confidentiality breaches, integrity breaches, and availability breaches: In this article, you'll learn more about what a data breach is and how you can prevent data breaches when designing and developing your software.
We’re thrilled to announce that Snyk has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing! Snyk was named in the Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST), for the first time, as a Visionary in 2021. And today, we’re excited and honored to announce that Gartner has recognized us in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Magic Quadrant report.
As you all know, KnowBe4 frequently promotes security awareness training and we also mention that unpatched software is a distant number two issue after social engineering. We generally say that unpatched software is involved in 20%-40% of successful exploits. It's been hard though to get good figures on that for years and even CISA has not published hard numbers, even though they appear to focus on it.
The Apache Log4j vulnerability has been making global headlines since it became public on 9th December 2021. The report stated that the vulnerability affects Apache log4j between versions 2.0 and 2.14.1 and is independent of the underlying JDK version. It was a full-blown security meltdown that resulted in hackers performing remote code executions and affected digital systems across the globe. In response, Apache implemented patch fixes, but some components remained unattended.
SBOM is the acronym for Software Bill of Materials, which is a list of all the open source npm packages that are part of your project. But it’s not only limited to open source or software packages, and can include operating system libraries, microservices inventory and more.
The number and complexity of software vulnerabilities is continuously growing. The ability of development and security teams to assess the threat level a given vulnerability poses and prioritize fix efforts accordingly greatly depends on access to as much context as possible about the vulnerability.
Nowadays, the final product of most Git repositories is a Docker image, that is then used in a Kubernetes deployment. With security being a hot topic now (and for good reasons), it would be scanning the Docker images you create in the CI is vital. In this piece, I’ll use GitHub Actions to build Docker images and then scan them for security vulnerabilities. The Docker image built in the CI is also pushed to GitHub’s Docker registry.
AWS vulnerability management is the continuous process of identifying and managing vulnerabilities within your organization’s AWS environment. Vulnerability management in AWS also includes reporting and remediation of detected security risks and is a vital practice in good AWS security management.
