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How to Increase Development Pipeline Efficiency

Software development organizations define success by providing the right products to their customers that meet quality, schedule and budgetary constraints. It includes specification, design, development, testing, quality assurance, building and deployment. ...

DevSecOps Thought Leadership

Identity Management Outlook for 2021

Earlier this year saw the celebration of the first Identity Management Day to punctuate the importance of protecting cyberspace identities.

Thought Leadership Trends

Are Some Programming Languages More Secure Than Others?

Security-related bugs can turn up in any programming language, but some are more prone to issues than others. Some newer languages are designed to make such errors harder. Others have “features” that are convenient but encourage coding that’...

Programming Language Thought Leadership

Social Engineering: How Prestidigitation Is at Its Heart

Social engineers use many of the same techniques to create an illusion in order to gain a victim’s trust and trick the person into doing their dirty work. They are essentially magicians, with the intent to derive some direct value by deceiving victims. ...

Industry AppSec Thought Leadership

What’s Changed in the 2021 CISSP Exam?

CISSP is one of the most prestigious vendor-neutral information systems security leadership certifications. The certification is a credential that signifies its holder possesses professional experience and demonstrates a high level of knowledge across informa...

Thought Leadership Trends

The State of Mobile App Security 2021

The ever-increasing popularity and use of smartphones dwarfs that of more conventional computing devices, such as desktop, laptops, tablets and so forth. Here are some numbers to put things in perspective: according to Statista the total number of m...

Thought Leadership Trends

Analyzing the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

On May 7, Colonial Pipeline had to shut down its pipelines due to a ransomware attack. Colonial is a major oil pipeline operator in the southern and eastern United States. Its pipelines extend from Texas to New Jersey and reach Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama...

Thought Leadership Trends

Facebook Scraping Incident Leaks Info for Half Billion Users

In early April, numerous sources disclosed discovery of a pool of Facebook records including information on more than 530 million of its users. The leaked information included users’ names, dates of birth, and phone numbers as posted to a website for hackers....

Thought Leadership Trends

Pandemic Legacy: Remote Work and Digital Transformation

The COVID-19 pandemic drove many companies to rapidly expand their support for remote work. This change was not simply to appease a changing workforce; it was simply to survive. When most of the workforce was suddenly told to stay home, many organizations had...

Thought Leadership Trends

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Major Data Breaches in 2018: A Mid-Year Review

Data is the new gold. It is a resource that creates and destroys power. With it, individuals, companies, and governments can sway public opinion, gain insight into the competition, and develop the most strategic plans. So it is for this reason that data breac...

Thought Leadership Trends

The True Cost of Cybercrime for Companies

We believe that data is the phenomenon of our time. It is the world’s new natural resource. It is the new basis of competitive advantage, and it is transforming every profession and industry. If all of this is true—even inevitable—then cyber crime, by definit...

Risk Management Thought Leadership

The Worst AppSec Mistakes to Avoid

Application security people, like anyone else, can make mistakes. Hasty actions and bad assumptions lead to a less complete discovery of flaws — or to outright disaster. In the worst case, A clumsy attempt to discover security problems can itself cause a brea...

Industry AppSec Thought Leadership