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Why do we need a new approach to SAST?
What’s the modern approach to SAST, why is it different, and how does it optimize your organization’s code, software, and application security?
Software and AppSec Challenges and Opportunities in Banking and Fintech — Part Two
Part two of three blogs in a series that focuses on the challenges, opportunities and solutions for software and application security in banking and fintech.
Mend Open Source Risk Report
Mend’s new Open Source Risk Report delves into the significant risk posed by the ongoing rise in open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks.
Software and AppSec Challenges and Opportunities in Banking and Fintech — Part One
Experts from Mend, FINOS, the Linux Foundation and Morgan Stanley discuss the challenges and opportunities of software and application security in banking and fintech. Part one of three.
What Threatens Kubernetes Security and What Can You Do About It?
Kubernetes is widely used but comes with security risks. Discover what these risks are, how they can be exploited, how to define and implement security for Kubernetes configurations, and how to protect Kubernetes applications.
Mend’s Trends for 2023
Several Mend experts offer insight into what they expect to see in 2023 – and some ideas on how to prepare.
Why Open Source License Management Matters
Open source license management has become so important that governments are seeking to mandate it.
How to Make a Case for Buying SCA
Learn how to build a compelling case for buying a software composition analysis (SCA) tool in your organization.
Why an SBOM is Vital to Application Security and Compliance
Attacks targeting the software supply chain are on the rise. Learn why an SBOM is vital to Application Security and Compliance.
Application Security – The Complete Guide
All about application security - why is the application layer the weakest link, and how to get application security right.
No Festive Break for Security as Attackers Target Almost 300 NPM Packages
Our team detected an attack on npm packages that utilized typosquatting to compromise nearly 300 NPM packages.
Everything You Need to Know About Application Security Best Practices
Discover the top ten application security best practices to safeguard your applications and minimize the impact of vulnerabilities.
What Are The Key Considerations for Vulnerability Prioritization?
While detecting vulnerabilities is important, you also need to know the ones that pose the highest risk to your business. Learn why prioritizing vulnerabilities is vital to effective application security, the key considerations when prioritizing, and what an effective prioritization process looks like.
How to Maximize the Value from Your SAST Tool
How can you get the most value from your SAST tool, and what should it include to maximize the value you derive from it?
How to Prepare for the Next Zero-Day Attack
Discover what steps you can take to safeguard your code base, your software, and your applications from zero-day attacks.
Introducing the Mend Open Source Risk Report
Mend’s new Open Source Risk Report delves into the significant risk posed by the ongoing rise in open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks.
The Risks and Benefits of Updating Dependencies
Updating software dependencies is vital to software and application security, but there are challenges. Learn the risks associated with updating dependencies, why they occur, and how you can address them.
Application Security Roundtable Discussion
Recent high-profile software supply chain breaches have sharpened the focus on application security. However, as cybersecurity professionals know all too well, concern doesn’t always equate to action. In theory, the rise of DevSecOps best practices that shift responsibility for application security further left should reduce, or outright eliminate, the vulnerabilities that now routinely make it...
AWS-Mend Fireside Chat: Building a Modern AppSec Program
The modern AppSec approach includes strategies and technologies that help teams prioritize. By giving them tools that efficiently identify security vulnerabilities that present the biggest risk, they can address them as quickly as possible. Learn how you can implement these strategies in a fireside chat with the experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Mend....
The Need for Speed: Accelerated AppSec Scanning in Azure DevOps Repos
Until recently, application security testing was cumbersome and time-consuming. Now, enterprises using Azure DevOps Repos can add automated application security testing directly to the repo. This DevSecOps approach combines convenience for developers along with features that security professionals want such as centralized deployment, management and policy enforcement. If your organization uses Azure DevOps, attend this...
Renovate Reaches 10K!
The Renovate open source project for automating dependency update hit some big Github milestones, so we put together a little appreciation for our favorite dependency update bot.
A Busy Weekend for npm Attacks, Including ‘cors’ Typosquatting
Over the past three days, the Mend research team identified two separate attacks that published malicious packages to npm: reverse remote shell as part of typosquatting attack on the popular ‘cors’ package, and an ATO attack on the “Just Eat” organization.
Mend SCA Action within Amazon CodeCatalyst Brings Additional Application Security to Developers
Mend SCA available as an action within new DevOps service, Amazon CodeCatalyst
Shift-Left Testing and Its Benefits
Learn what shift left testing means, how it can save you time and costs, and why you need to shift left your open source components’ management.
Integrating Dependency Management Into Cloud Services: The Mend-AWS Partnership
Why is integrating dependency management into cloud services so important, how do you manage dependencies better, and what does Mend do with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help you achieve this?
Modern Application Security Needs More Than Tech. Don’t Neglect Governance
Learn why teams that pay attention to governance by using a CSIRP are more successful at combating the continued growth of cyberattacks.
SAST – All About Static Application Security Testing
Learn all about SAST - what it is, how it works, its strengths and weaknesses, how it can be improved and what to look for in SAST tools.
Building a Modern AppSec Program: AWS-Mend Fireside Chat
Discover what a good AppSec program should look like and the best practices to implement it, according to Ori Bach, EVP of Product at Mend, and Harry Mower, Director, AWS CodeSuite.
Why Your DevOps Platform Needs a Security Partner to Safeguard Your Software
Discover why your DevOps platform should be complemented with a security solution, learn how to achieve this, and find out how Mend’s partnership with CloudBees delivers security that safeguards your code, software, and applications.
DevSecOps: A Comprehensive Guide to Securely Managing Your DevOps Workflow
Get to know all about DevSecOps and the main tools and practices that organizations should adopt in order to implement a DevSecOps pipeline.
Modern AppSec Programs Run on Automation
Learn why automation is a critical element of modern application security programs.
Top Three User Priorities for Software Composition Analysis
On the PeerSpot technology review site, reviews from Mend SCA users highlighted the three top priorities that SCA users generally want: ease of use, risk mitigation, and a strong feature set and integration capabilities.
Advisory: New OpenSSL Critical Security Vulnerability
What we know about the new OpenSSL critical security vulnerability.
Software Security Challenges & Opportunities in Banking
The banking industry lives and dies by being fast, accurate, and completely dependable. It’s critical that you can detect, identify, and remediate software vulnerabilities as fast as possible, to reinforce application security most effectively. This is particularly vital with open source software that is increasingly prevalent in your sector, where its use continues to grow...
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month–So Let’s Talk Automation and Home Security
For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we take a closer look at using automation to improve AppSec, as well as how to safeguard the devices you use at home.