IT Security
2023 Application Security Budgets on the Rise
A survey of 500 DevSecOps professionals in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations plan to increase investment in application security in 2023. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf ...
Update to Open Source ZAP Tool Improves DAST Performance
An update to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool made available today improves performance by employing a multi-threaded passive scanner engine. Version 2.12.0 of ...
PlanSecOps: Incorporating Security Strategies in Design
Mike O'Malley | | Cybersecurity Awareness Month, devops, devsecops, security by design, Security Framework, software developmentOrganizations that don’t adapt and change aren’t likely to survive. The same can be said about DevSecOps, a discipline created to ensure security is baked into the software development process, not an ...
Sigstore Code Signing Service Becomes Generally Available
A free digital signing service for software created by the Sigstore open source community has become generally available this week via the cloud. Announced at the SigstoreCon event that occurred during the ...
SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck
The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these ...
Keeping the DevOps Pipeline Flowing as Attack Surfaces Grow
The attack surfaces that today’s businesses and public entities must manage have never been more complex and difficult to protect. The introduction of cloud and SaaS offerings over the past decade has ...
Implementing Data-Driven DevSecOps
Tom Tovar | | data analysis, devsecops, mobile application testing, mobile security, software securityRight now, the way DevSecOps is typically implemented doesn’t fit with the rapid and agile DevOps CI/CD pipeline at all. It’s like applying 19th-century firefighting methods to a modern forest fire. Back then, ...
Endor Labs Applies Graph Analysis to Secure Software Supply Chains
Endor Labs exited stealth mode today to launch a platform that applies graph analysis to identify the depth of dependencies that exist within an application. Fresh from raising $25 million in funding, ...
Business Leaders Will Trade Speed for Security
A global survey of 600 C-level executives conducted by CloudBees found that when it comes to building software, more than three-quarters of respondents said it is more important to be secure and ...
GitBOM Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components
An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software ...
Survey Surfaces Massive Number of Application Vulnerabilities
A survey of 16,510 IT and IT security practitioners published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for automating the remediation of software vulnerabilities, found nearly half of respondents (47%) worked ...
