It‘s Cybersecurity Awareness Month-Let‘s Talk AppSec
...are embraced, all three can be achieved to deliver software securely at all times and keep innovation and software delivery on track. Even considering edge cases that may be time...
Read about application security, DevSecOps, license compliance, and software supply chain security.
...are embraced, all three can be achieved to deliver software securely at all times and keep innovation and software delivery on track. Even considering edge cases that may be time...
...for effective application security? Organizations need to better understand the challenges they face in building applications—things like increased attacks on open-source software and the software supply chain; lack of IT...
While software composition analysis (SCA) has been around for years, today’s analysts are enhancing their recommendation for enterprise development teams to use the technology. One example: at the recent Gartner...
...reducing the software attack surface. Formerly WhiteSource, Mend has grown dramatically since its start. A pioneer in software composition analysis (SCA), we began offering custom code security through static application...
In 2011, my co-founders Azi Cohen, Ron Rymon, and I founded WhiteSource with a mission to automate all tasks surrounding the use and security of open source software. We were...
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...for more interesting discussions about risk assessment These breaches have demonstrated how exposed major organizations can be when vulnerabilities present cybercriminals with opportunities to attack and disable the software and...
...organization and avoid the financial and reputational consequences. While some organizations use traditional security measures, such as encrypting data or using antivirus software, businesses should also take a look at...
...proprietary software have become staples of the developer’s security toolbox. In addition, an AppSec strategy also needs to detect open source components with known vulnerabilities, and that’s where SCA (Software...
As supply chain attacks continue to dominate headlines, software development teams are beginning to realize that package management can’t be taken lightly — the threats hidden under the hood are...
...the state of open source security and learn how to keep up with the rapid pace of software development without leaving security behind. New Challenges to Application Security in 2020...
Over the past few years, RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection) has become a hot topic of discussion among software security specialists. Recent market research predicts that the global RASP security market...
Encompassing over two-thirds of the average commercial software, open-source has become an essential part of modern software development. Undermanaging the consumption and redistribution of Open source expose the enterprise to...
You’ve purchased a software composition analysis solution, and you’re excited to start scanning. Before you do, read our top tips for getting started with Mend. Following some basic guidelines ensures...
As the number of known vulnerabilities continues to grow every year, software development and application security teams are increasingly relying on vulnerability detection tools throughout development. The result: teams are...
...source audits, a startup named Black Duck Software introduced the first open source scanning solution back in 2002 which would be able to identify the open source components as well...
...of resources and tools to help you secure your web applications. The key is being proactive about security at every stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Starting with...
...November 2019, Renovate is designed to save developers time and reduce security risk by automating dependency updates in software projects. We obviously love Renovate a lot, mostly for its open-first...
...peer-reviewed security advisories, and issue trackers, to provide us with all of the data that we need in order to detect known open source vulnerabilities in our software projects. Some...
...the software development lifecycle (“shift left”) because then the cost is the least. Education and code review play a key role here. However, since not all issues can be detected...
...AWS and that we can help our customers maximize all of the business benefits that AWS offers. AWS recognizes Mend as a leading solution that enables software organizations to manage...
...likely to work in IPython/Jupyter, PyCharm, and RStudio. Open Source has Room for Growth Open source software scored pretty highly this year, with 42.1% reporting that they viewed OSS as...
...but also a regular user, adding that, “It’s an amazing feedback loop. I’d often built software for other people to use; its so much more fun building software for your...
...be available on the Mend dashboard. How Software Composition Analysis Can Speed Up Development Security was once viewed as a hindrance to software development, but today security solutions are starting...
...Struts 2 being available, companies continue to download the vulnerable versions in 2018. Indeed, the Apache Foundation itself continues to allow users to download legacy versions of the software, even...
...and deployment of software. Despite the most obvious problems that DevOps solves, there are a few common mistakes that DevOps teams and their organizations continuously commit while working together to...
...passwords. OpenSSL released a software patch within a week of the bug’s disclosure, but the damage had been done and appears to be ongoing. Not Enough Eyeballs In the aftermath...
...— the application layer. Forrester surveyed about 500 security professionals, and those who said that their companies had suffered a security breach in the last year identified attacks on software...
...dramatically increased speed and complexity in software supply chains. Today’s software development pipelines are more complicated and automated, relying more heavily on third parties within the software development lifecycle (SDLC), meaning...
...of equality It’s no secret that the world of software is often seen as a bit of a boy’s club, and here at Mend, we’ve made it our business to...
...to a well-known proprietary enterprise software project. The Mend research team contacted the related software company as part of a responsible disclosure policy, and the company disclosed that the packages...
What is Cloud Security Architecture? Cloud computing security architecture describes how an organization secures data, applications, and workloads hosted across cloud environments. It specifies all technologies — both software and...
With each passing year, open source software use increases. But this trend does not come without a price. Modern software’s heavy reliance on open source components created space for exploitation...
...the data. Explore the implications of default values. Data is essential to the exploration of test cases, as is the maintenance of test data. Software Supply Chain The software supply...
Keeping up with today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape is an ongoing battle for software development organizations, as many struggle to keep their assets and customers secure while keeping up with...
...mission to help software development teams make great engineering decisions and create productivity through quality, and it appears that they are doing a good job. Codacy boasts saving developers thousands...