Name: Lessons from Top Echelon Development Teams: Higher Quality Code & Productivity
Start: 2020-10-01T15:00:00Z
End: 2020-10-01T15:01:03.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Contrast Security is the leader in next-generation application security, embedding code vulnerability analysis and attack prevention directly into software through instrumentation. Contrast’s patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers highly accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improving efficiencies and cost, and enabling rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats.

Now that dust is settling from Log4Shell, how can you prepare for and prevent the next zero-day vulnerability from impacting your organization?

Join this webinar to hear from Larry Maccherone, DevSecOps Transformation lead at Contrast Security, and Farshad Abasi, Chief Security Officer at Forward Security and hear an interactive discussion about how to future-proof against emerging threats on the horizon so your organization is prepared to respond instantly to zero-day vulnerabilities like Log4Shell.

Topics for discussion include:

What lessons should we draw from our experiences since Log4Shell?
Have you seen changes in behavior as a result of Log4Shell?
Have other vulnerabilities been discovered due to increased scrutiny of open source libraries?
How would you respond to the FTC alert regarding Log4Shell
How has this changed your thinking on use of open source libraries, and budget allocation to secure them?
What could have been done to protect against the perils of Log4Shell, and how can you prevent the next threat?

PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITY

The second annual 2021 Application Security Observability Report provides key insights and industry benchmarks on an array of different application security areas.   This moderated webinar features three subject-matter experts from Contrast who will speak to some of the findings in the just-published report, including:  • Discussion of the newly formulated vulnerability escape rate and how it demonstrates how well—or how poorly—developers are doing when it comes to writing and releasing secure code • The percentage of active application code is custom versus open source and what this means when it comes to risk • The median time to remediate resolved vulnerabilities—for Contrast versus other application security tools • Which vulnerability types are up, the ones that are down, and the ones that pose the highest risk in terms of likelihood and impact • And much more …  This is truly a “can’t miss” webinar for the year.

Key Insights and Benchmarks from Contrast’s 2021 AppSec Observability Report

38% of open-source libraries are active and only 12% of classes within them are actually invoked in applications.  Discover key findings recently published in Contrast Security's “2021 State of Open-Source Security Report.” Attendees will learn ... • The average number of libraries in individual applications • The average age of library versions and how this dramatically ratchets up risk • The total number of vulnerabilities found in libraries • The presence of potential licensing issues in open source used in applications • Strategies and tactics organizations can employ to mitigate open-source risks • And more …

How To Determine What Your Open-Source Risks Look Like

The average enterprise uses 765 web applications to run their business, and many of these have serious vulnerabilities. 

Organizations around the world evaluate their application risk using the OWASP Top Ten. On September 24, the OWASP Foundation released the OWASP Top 10 2021. It’s been four years since the last release, and there are some notable additions, changes, and combinations.

Organizations are recalibrating how they measure application risk and reevaluate strategies based on these changes. The co-founders of OWASP address the latest changes to the Top Ten and provide their perspectives on each one. Topics covered during the moderated webinar include:

● New entrants, deletions, and combinations to the Top Ten
● Risks—in terms of prevalence and likelihood to exploit—posed by each of the Top Ten
● How to use the OWASP Top Ten to evaluate risk and existing application security programs
● Potential application security gaps not covered by the OWASP Top Ten
● How to assess application security coverage based on the OWASP Top Ten
● Future trajectories for application cyber threats

Co-founders Discuss Key Takeaways from the 2021 OWASP Top Ten

Larry Maccherone launched and for five years scaled the DevSecOps Transformation program across the hundreds of development teams at Comcast. Along the way, he and his team found through experimentation a number of high-leverage approaches. Similarly, Jimmy Xu has seen what works well at a variety of very different organizations in his current and previous consulting roles.  Jimmy and Larry put their heads together to present this short list of key concepts that are critical in making your DevSecOps transformation more actionable and successful.

Five Key Concepts for DevSecOps Transformation

Learn how Contrast can help application security teams improve the security of Go applications with the industry’s first interactive application security analyzer for the Go language.

The addition of the Contrast Go agent to the Contrast Application Security Platform provides an automated method of detecting critical security vulnerabilities in Go-based code—without false positives that cause workflow bottlenecks.

This webinar looks at how Contrast can help organizations improve testing and protection of their Golang projects. Watch the on-demand webinar to learn …
•	Where Go fits into software and why development teams choose it
•	How security analyzers focus on simplifying any gaps or discussions between software teams
•	The difference between composition analysis (dependencies) and integrated analysis (custom vulnerabilities)
•	How to use interactive application security testing (IAST) in the software development life cycle
•	How integrated analyzers work in different software languages
•	And more …

Why Interactive Security Analysis for Go Applications Is Needed

Almost ¾ of financial services firms are traveling at DevOps speed—releasing code multiple times per day or with every change. But only 25% of security teams are able to review and pass all alerts back to their development teams—a big security gap that must be closed.

Contrast’s 2021 State of Application Security in Financial Services Report highlights these and other trends that application security and development leaders and practitioners need to know to effectively and securely embrace Agile and DevOps.

Attend this webinar to learn: 

•	How well application security and development teams are collaborating
•	What percentage of application vulnerabilities are prioritized for remediation
•	How compliance and risk are shaping financial services and DevSecOps
•	How much time is spent running security scans and triaging and diagnosing alerts
•	How often financial services firms’ applications are successfully exploited
•	If DevSecOps outcomes are affected by company size, number of applications in development, who is responsible for AppSec, etc.
•	And more!

How DevOps in Financial Services Is Creating Application Risks

98% of organizations reported 3+ successful application exploits in the past year.  

In response to the cascade of successful cyber exploits, President Biden issued an executive order that mandates the need for strengthening cybersecurity. Contrast Protect does just that for production applications. Unlike perimeter defenses, protection from the inside delivers unparalleled insights and remediation capabilities. 

Attend this webinar to learn: 

•	Where your production applications are vulnerable today
•	Why existing application security solutions are ineffective for critical security use cases
•	How Contrast Protect delivers application security from inside application code to block actual exploits—both known and unknown
•	How application security teams can support developers with precise attack information
•	And more …

How To Stop SQL Injection and Other Common Application Attacks in Their Tracks

History is being made. Don’t get left behind. 

Slow, inefficient, and inaccurate legacy static analysis is history. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and revolutionizes 15-year-old SAST technology to produce results that include …

●	10x faster scan times
●	45x faster remediation times
●	30% improvement in application security efficiency

Attend this webinar to learn … 

●	The journey with SAST from the view of a founder
●	The benefits and pains of SAST for the enterprise from the view of a customer
●	What the future needs to look like for SAST to thrive and serve the market
●	Why SAST must be pipeline native to be focused, actionable, and fast

The SAST of the Future: Pipeline-native Static Analysis

Whether you have been on the cloud journey for 5 months or 5 years, over 75% of enterprises are still encountering a variety of architectural and security challenges when migrating legacy applications to the cloud, developing and delivering cloud-native applications, or managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

 

Some of these hurdles include understanding dependencies between applications and application components, refactoring application security infrastructure for cloud hosting, and securing the API proliferation.

 

During this fireside chat, Contrast Security and Microsoft will discuss how CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and Chief Cloud Architects can overcome many of these obstacles and maximize cloud efficiencies by implementing DevSecOps principles.

 

Specifically, they will cover how using DevSecOps can help you better:

 

·  Understand risk in your applications as you migrate to the cloud

·  Rebuild/refactor applications for cloud hosting

·  Secure production workloads once applications are deployed in the cloud

· Manage application workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

How to Modernize Your Azure Journey with DevSecOps Princples

Presenters:
Joe Coletta, Product Marketing Manager at Contrast Security
Pauline Logan, Product Manager of Contrast OSS at Contrast Security

Tackle open-source risks without grinding DevOps to a halt.

Is managing open-source software (OSS) with legacy tools causing more harm than good? This is often the case when it comes to outdated software composition analysis (SCA) tools that bury teams with false positives and require a series of tedious manual processes that waste valuable time.

Tune in for a webinar that will explain how these SCA tools fall short when it comes to managing OSS risk, as well as how to untangle the confusion and find a security strategy that doesn’t stop DevOps in its tracks. You’ll come away understanding:

- The rising rate of OSS vulnerabilities
- Different layers of risk that come with OSS
- Specific steps DevOps can take to managing an OSS security strategy
- How instrumentation can help streamline OSS security

Join us to discover a new way to protect OSS that doesn’t burden security or DevOps teams, but actually integrates into DevOps workflows for seamless, proactive protection.

Managing Open-Source Security for Modern-Day DevOps

Presenters:

Sean Walls, CISO and VP at Visionworks of America
Andre Tehrani, Partner at Recrewmint
Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief of Inside AppSec Podcast

Strategies for implementing effective application security

As the modern-day CISOs role continues to expand, CISOs must mitigate both business risk and execute successful cybersecurity strategies. This is especially true when it comes to the risk of application development vulnerabilities that can result in dire financial consequences—ranging from diminished brand reputation to severe financial loss.

Tune in for a special moderated webinar that will feature insights from a seasoned executive recruiter and CISO practitioner about what it takes to manage an effective application security strategy. You’ll come away understanding:

-Why application security is a highly sought-after skill for CISOs
- What types of skills and experience help CISOs mitigate application risks
- How to prioritize application security resources and budget
- How CISOs can showcase application security skills and experience throughout the interview process.

Join us to discover how to up-level your application security strategy as well as how to translate application security concerns and plans to the rest of the C-suite and your board of directors.

Application Security Jumps to the Top of the CISO's List of Priorities

Cloud technologies, new architecture stacks, DevOps tools, and agile methodologies have all contributed to productivity, software velocity, and business innovation. But what about security? Can security be an accelerator to innovation?

Join CTO and Co-Founder of Contrast Security Jeff Williams, Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner of AzureDevOps at Microsoft, and MC Reid, Senior Solutions Architect at Contrast Security as they demo how Contrast Security's embedded application security model integrates into the Microsoft AzureDevOps Pipeline. This talk will cover how to leverage application security instrumentation techniques in DevSec and SecOps (DevSecOps) to increase both developer and security productivity. By changing culture through advanced automation, we will cover the following 6 topics and how to apply them in real workflow environments:

Shifting left starts with vulnerability visibility for developers

Treating vulnerabilities for what they are, software bugs

Enforcing application security policies into your CI/CD pipelines

Enhancing threat intelligence with application threat and attack telemetry

Aligning Development, Security, and Operations teams with real-time unified insights

Deploying DevSecOps at scale

Register today to understand how the combined benefits of Microsoft and Contrast Security can help you accelerate innovation with Security in a DevOps world.

Security in a DevOps World: Unlocking Velocity and Innovation

Presenters:
Francis Cianfrocca, CEO, InsightCyber Group
Luke Hinds, Security Engineering Lead, Office of the CTO, Red Hat
Erik Costlow, Director of Developer Relations at Contrast Security
Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief of Inside AppSec Podcast

Over 60% of leading development teams deploy code to production every day or with every release. This demands a completely different security approach.

Attend this webinar to learn how the “cream of the crop” are accelerating their release cycles and transforming their businesses by launching new applications and evolving existing ones. Attendees will learn:

- Best practices from top development teams
- What security tools and approaches they use
- How they leverage open-source frameworks and libraries
- What tools must be integrated into the IDE and CI/CD pipeline
- How application security must change

The digital age completely changes DevSecOps, and only those in the top echelon of practitioners are likely to succeed.

Lessons from Top Echelon Development Teams: Higher Quality Code & Productivity

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