Cyber Threats & Breach Prevention 2021

The notion that software runs the world and the world runs on software became even more of a reality during the pandemic. In addition to enabling work from home efforts, organizations hit the Fast Forward button on digital transformation efforts in the last 12-18 months. Gartner points out that the global expenditure…

You’re building an application and need to prove it’s secure, and to do that you need to find vulnerabilities and fix them. However, there’s so much confusion about what that even means, let alone how to do it right, that it can be an uncertain and overwhelming endeavor. Author Ted Harrington takes…

Designing zero-trust architectures requires that you build security controls for each component of the architecture i.e. data storage, IAM, networking and application / API, just to mention a few. As we shift our focus to applications, security controls need to move closer to the application level. The traditional security controls implemented at…

WhiteSource, in conjunction with Ponemon Institute, recently surveyed over 600 IT and IT security practitioners who are familiar with their organizations’ approach to securing applications – and here’s a spoiler: the highest level of security risk is considered by many organizations to be in the application layer. So what can Enterprise organizations…

Organizations are digitizing their products and services now more than ever. And are transforming their IT landscapes into a hybrid one by adding cloud components. Hybrid IT is not going away—if anything it’s expanding and becoming more complex as companies adapt to modern challenges. That’s why securing and expediting IT transformation is…

In today’s digital world, a company’s website or web app is the way that consumers discover, shop and interact with a brand. Online traffic to your digital headquarters has reached new heights and so has cybercriminal activity, with sophisticated online fraud schemes and digital skimming attacks hitting the press daily. So what…

While web and mobile apps can be an organization’s most valuable assets, they are also the largest attack surface. The key to leveling the playing field with bad actors is knowing how, when, and where they are attacking apps. However, app owners and developers are often blind to the threats their apps…

Security teams can become overwhelmed with vulnerability reports. A myriad of tools exist that provide all kinds of reporting on suspected vulnerabilities in software. False positives (and negatives) are usually present in the data. For the security team, this can create a situation where more time is spent managing the data and…