An article by Ken Prole, CTO of Code Dx, was published in the Security Today magazine’s April 2019 edition.
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Everything you need for PCI compliance scan success
If your company handles payment transactions of any type, then you’re familiar with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)—a group of security standards designed to create and maintain a secure environment for any company that accepts, processes, stores, or transmits credit card information. Because we provide tools for application security, we will focus primarily on how this regulation affects companies building applications.
The perfect union: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)
One hundred percent—all of the applications Positive Technologies tested—had some kind of vulnerability. You might think, “Yeah, but how many of those were real, critical vulnerabilities?” Well, ninety-four percent of web applications tested contained a high-severity software flaw. Eighty-five percent of those same applications contained at least one confirmed, exploitable vulnerability.
Predicted web application vulnerabilities and cybersecurity trends for 2019
Web application attacks are on the rise. A recent study found that they were the primary cause of reported breaches in 2017 and Q1 2018. This marked increase is partly due to the greater variety in web application vulnerabilities, as new attack vectors are found and exploited.
Code reuse: How to reap the benefits and avoid the dangers
Code reuse (or software reuse) is defined exactly as one would expect: reusing code that already exists either within your organization or externally when developing new software.
The existing code may be reused to perform the same or very similar function. There are varying degrees of code reuse, ranging from repurposing a small section of internal code to relying on large third-party libraries and open-source frameworks.
Don’t leave security behind in your CI/CD environment
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), or CI/CD, are part of the Agile approach to software development. The most prominent aspect of Agile development—and it’s most important rule—is that it requires software development to be responsive to change through an iterative process.
The importance of penetration testing and vulnerability assessments for web applications
The 2018 Global Security Report from Trustwave found that all web applications are vulnerable to attack. Yes, you read that right. All applications had at least one vulnerability, and the average number of vulnerabilities found per application was eleven.
Smartphone cyber attacks are on the rise: Tips to improve mobile application security
Everywhere you look, people are on their smartphones. These devices have become a permanent fixture in our lives. We spend more time on our smartphones than we do on...
How to keep your banking apps compliant under the new NYDFS cybersecurity regulations
Some predict that cybercrimes will cost $6 trillion in damages per year by 2021. In response, governments around the world have decided to fight back against cyberattacks and counter threats with a host of new cybersecurity regulations for financial services.
How IAST, RASP, and now HAST can enhance application security
Information security breaches continue to make headlines. 2017 and early 2018 saw several major organizations such as Equifax and even the IRS fall prey to hackers who exploited security vulnerabilities.
Attacks come fast, starting within one day of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) being released. Sometimes, zero days. How do you protect yourself?