Application Security News and Articles


Cloud Security Risk Prioritization is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.

Understanding business risk empowers CISOs to provide a comprehensive picture of the business’ cloud security posture, which will help teams detect, prioritize and remediate threats to stop cloud and app-related breaches. The post Cloud ...

AppSec Toolkit — Bandit: SAST Tool for Python

Bandit is an open-source SAST tool for Python projects. This story is about SAST, Bandit’s features and comparison to other SAST tools.Continue reading on Medium »

Safeguarding Corporate Social Presence In a SaaS World

In today’s digital landscape, social media platforms stand at the heart of a brand’s identity, reputation, and customer engagement. Despite this, many organizations overlook the security of their social media accounts when considering SaaS ...

Certainly: Open-source offensive security toolkit

Certainly is an open-source offensive security toolkit designed to capture extensive traffic across various network protocols in bit-flip and typosquatting scenarios. Built-in protocols: DNS, HTTP(S), IMAP(S), SMTP(S). “The reason why we ...

Offensive cyber operations are more than just attacks

In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Jones, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Officer at Nightwing, talks about some key misconceptions and complexities surrounding offensive cyber operations. Many myths stem from a simplistic ...

Paid open-source maintainers spend more time on security

Paid maintainers are 55% more likely to implement critical security and maintenance practices than unpaid maintainers and are dedicating more time to implementing security practices like those included in industry standards like the OpenSSF ...

The surge in cyber insurance and what it means for your business

The cyber insurance market is set for explosive growth as organizations increasingly seek financial protection against rising cyber threats. This surge in demand reflects a broader shift in how businesses approach risk management, viewing cyber ...

USENIX NSDI ’24 – Jolteon: Unleashing the Promise of Serverless for Serverless Workflows

Authors/Presenters:Zili Zhang, Chao Jin, Xin Jin Our sincere thanks to USENIX, and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) content, placing the ...

Week in review: Critical VMware vCenter Server bugs fixed, Apple releases iOS 18

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Critical VMware vCenter Server bugs fixed (CVE-2024-38812) Broadcom has released fixes for two vulnerabilities affecting VMware vCenter Server ...

USENIX NSDI ’24 – Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices

Authors/Presenters:Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Feng Wu, Francis Y. Yan Awarded Outstanding Paper! Our sincere thanks to USENIX, and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked ...

Profiling the Gaza Hackers Team

In the following post I'll profile the Gaza Hackers Team. Sample photos: Primary group's ...

What is an Information Security Management System (ISMS)?

If you’ve spent any length of time reading about the internationally accepted security framework laid out in ISO 27001, you’ve likely come across the term ISMS or Information Security Management System. You may wonder, though; what is the ...

Customer Story | Lanett City Schools Works Smarter With The Help Of Cloud Monitor

Since its inception in 1898, Lanett City Schools has committed itself to providing a supportive, rigorous, and high-quality education to the Chambers County community. Nestled in southeastern Alabama, it’s home to roughly 950 students and 140 ...

Building a RAG System on Databricks With Your Unstructured Data Using Tonic Textual

Databricks and Tonic.ai have partnered to simplify the process of connecting enterprise unstructured data to AI systems to reap the benefits of RAG. Learn how in this step-by-step technical how-to. The post Building a RAG System on Databricks ...

USENIX NSDI ’24 – Revisiting Congestion Control for Lossless Ethernet

Authors/Presenters:Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng, Chaolei Hu, Fengyuan Ren Our sincere thanks to USENIX, and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) ...

How Asset Discovery Tools Work

How Asset Discovery Tools Work What Is an Asset Discovery Tool? Types of IT Assets The Benefits of Asset Discovery How Does IT Asset Discovery Work? Top 5 Use Cases for Asset Discovery Manage Your Network Assets with FireMon Frequently Asked ...

Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #306 – My Door Is Always Open

via the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard and the lauded Software Engineering / Enterprise Agile Coaching work of Luxshan Ratnaravi at Comic Agilé! Permalink The post Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, ...