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The Complete Guide to Open Source Security
The ins and outs of open source security in one comprehensive guide. A full rundown of all security measures.
How Packages’ External Resources Threaten Your Supply Chain
Learn how packages’ external resources threaten your supply chain, and how you can mitigate the risks.
Penetration Testing – A Detailed Guide
Understand what penetration testing is, why it’s important, its stages, approaches, and tools.
Why Empowering Developers is a Game Changer for Application Security
In this webinar, SonarSource and WhiteSource share how empowering developers with the right tools positively impacts application security.
Cloud Computing Security: A Primer
What is cloud native computing and what are the top concerns in cloud computing security?
Patch Management Best Practices
These 8 patch management best practices will help you apply a patching process in order to fix security vulnerabilities.
Celebrating Pride: LGBTQ+ Open Source Projects and Programs We Love
To celebrate Pride month, Mend is highlighting a few of our favorite open source projects and programs that support LGBTQ+ communities.
How Vonage Uses SCA to Automate Open Source Security & Compliance
With the growing adoption of SCA, a technology that provides both developer-focused tools and governance solutions, more companies place developers, IT, security, and legal on the same page. This is the case of global cloud communications provider Vonage, which needed a SCA solution that could integrate both open source security and license compliance checks automatically...
Research Shows Over 100,000 Libraries Affected By Maven Vulnerability CVE-2021-26291
Mend in partnership with Jonathan Leitschuh found over 100,000 libraries affected by Maven vulnerability CVE-2021-26291.
Achieving Automated Open Source Security with DevSecOps
Achieving Automated Open Source Security with DevSecOps DevSecOps sets out to relieve the costly and stressful delays that can occur when security testing is performed late in the game, by setting up processes and tools for “shifting left” so security testing can happen early and often. As organizations continue to embrace this DevSecOps approach, testing...
Supply Chain Security – 10 Tips That Won’t Slow Development Down
Learn how developers can adopt easy practices to secure the open source supply chain without slowing down development.
5 Steps to Get Your Developers to Care More About Security
The relationship between security and developers has traditionally been like two teams competing at a tug-o-war. On one end developers are pulling to produce functional products at breakneck...
Docker Vs. Kubernetes: A Detailed Comparison
Learn about the relationship between Docker and Kubernetes. Understand the similarities and differences between Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes.
Shifting Priorities of Digital Native Security
Should a modern security strategy be based on the assumptions that source code will never be leaked, or that “internal” networks will never be breached? Join AWS, HackerOne and WhiteSource’s upcoming virtual roundtable discussion where our industry experts will discuss how the importance of security threats have changed as companies and products shift to a...
Open Source Risk Management in the Financial Sector
The days when financial institutions were hesitant to adopt open source software are over. Today, even the largest firms and banks in the financial sector have realized the massive benefits of using open source technology to build powerful, innovative applications at a reduced time-to-market. Join our live panel discussion led by industry leaders from Wells...
Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Focuses on Supply Chain Attacks
President Biden’s executive order places strict standards on software sold to the US government. Learn about the executive order and software supply chain attacks.
Software Composition Analysis Explained
What Software Composition Analysis tool is and why it should be part of your application security portfolio.
Why Open Source Dependencies Are Your Blind Spot?
Few years ago, JavaScript developers worldwide saw their applications failing to build or compile. It was soon learned that the outages were due to a developer pulling his packages out of npm, a dependency manager for JavaScript. The unpublished packages included an 11-line left-pad function that was downloaded 2.5 million times in the month prior...
Reducing Enterprise AppSec Risks: Ponemon Report Key Takeaways
Many enterprises consider applications to be the highest security risk. This survey by Ponemon Institute looks at AppSec risks.
Open Source Vulnerabilities Overview: Apache Struts vs. Spring
We analyzed published open source security vulnerabilities in Struts and Spring to learn more about the state of vulnerability management.
Cyber Attacks From Open Source Perspective
In this webinar, we will suggest a simple framework to the open source vulnerability management challenge and few ways to secure your software supply chain and reduce potential risk.
Three New Supply Chain Attack Methods You Should Be Aware Of
Read the latest supply chain security news and updates to learn about new supply chain methods exploited in April.
Dynamic Application Security Testing: DAST Basics
Dynamic application security testing (DAST), or black-box testing, finds vulnerabilities by attacking an application from the outside while it's is running.
How To Secure Your SDLC The Right Way
SDLC security should be a top priority nowadays as attacks are directed to the application layer more then ever before and the call for more secure apps for customers strengthens
Developer Security Champions Rule the DevSecOps Revolution
Learn what a developer security champion is and how it will help your developers shift security left.
Welcome to Mend, Diffend!
Today we’re thrilled to announce that Diffend, an innovative software supply chain security service, is now part of Mend.
The Top 11 Web Vulnerability Scanners
Web vulnerability scanners, a type of black-box testing, are the best way to protect your web application from malicious hackers. These are the top 11 tools.
Docker Image Security Scanning: What It Can and Can't Do
Docker image security scanning is a core part of Docker security strategy. We explain how it works, why it's important and what its limitations are.
All About Mend’s 2021 Open Source Security Vulnerabilities Report
Learn about new trends in the evolving world of open source security, and what you can do to stay secure.
Forrester’s State Of Application Security Report, 2021: Key Takeaways
Forrester reports on the latest AppSec trends and recommends the AppSec strategies organizations should adopt to keep up with today’s threat landscape
3 Reasons Why Open Source Software is More Secure than Commercial Software
Is open source code more secure than proprietary code? This has been an ongoing question for years. We claim that open source is more secure than the average commercial closed source software
The Main Appsec for 2021
It’s no secret that 2020 was a difficult year. The pandemic and as a result, the lockdowns and quarantines sent tens of millions of global workers home, and the remote work caused a dramatic increase in the number of ransomware, phishing attacks, and accidental breaches by employees working at home. Despite the increases in these...
The State of Open Source Vulnerabilities 2021
Mend Annual Report Open Source Vulnerabilities 2021
Top 3 AppSec Challenges to the Financial Industry
What are the top challenges facing the financial industry today, and how can financial institutions address them?
The Top 10 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities You Must Know
The Linux kernel is one of the most popular open source components used by developers, but it is also one of the most vulnerable. Here are the Top 10 Linux kernel vulnerabilities of the past decade.