In the same post where Bruce Schneier famously said that he personally believes “that training users in security is generally a waste of time, and that the money can be better spent elsewhere,” he added an important caveat about training developers. Developers, he wrote, “are people who can be taught expertise in a fast-changing environment, and
Writing secure code is no longer an option. With financially motivated crime at the top of the web app attack food chain, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigation report, your organization will be hard-pressed to come out on top if you suffer a breach. In order to ensure our organizations and customers are secure,
Despite the astounding rise in cybercrime and hacking incidents worldwide, the modern Application Security Program Leader faces numerous bumps and obstacles on a daily basis within his organization. Application security has come a long way in the last decade, but the inherited limitations of the traditional solutions are not making life easy.
The Rise of DevOps The methods we use to develop software have gone through radical transformations over the last five years. ‘Slow and steady’ has evolved into quick and agile methodologies like DevOps. Based on disrupting the silos between Developers and Operations, DevOps embraces the idea of a shared culture of trust, collaboration
With the industrialization of cybercrime and rise in hacking severity, the value of traditional application security techniques is imploding. The Web Application Firewall (WAF), considered as a go-to security solution until not long ago, is currently experiencing a constant erosion in its effectiveness. On the other hand, Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are gaining momentum.
When you’re constantly reacting to suspicious alerts and fixing vulnerabilities only after they’ve been exploited, you’re missing the point of application security. Application security, according to Wikipedia, “encompasses the measures taken throughout the code’s life-cycle to prevent gaps in the security policy of an application or the underlying vulnerabilities… of the application.” The practice
A wise man once said, “to measure is to know…if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” When it comes to application security, measurements are crucial to the success of your program. But determining how to best combine your measurements into metrics which show your programs value is much more important. As a CISO
Baking security in to our applications is just not an option anymore. The explosion of the number of applications within organizations, coupled with the constant breaches we hear about (and the many more we don’t) don’t allow room for complacency when it comes to securing your organization and customer data. Yet CISOs and security managers
As old as web browsers themselves, cross-site scripting (XSS) has been an ongoing issue in the security world. Its’ consistent appearance on the OWASP Top 10 and in news reports of cross-site scripting attacks has kept the security issue in the spotlight over the years. Yet after two decades the security issue remains one of the
Manage your software where it’s created. It is in your continuous integration environment where the various pieces of code become software. While some of the software is proprietary, much of it (probably over 50%) is open source components, as your development teams use open source components to boost their productivity and make better products. You most
Sign up today & never miss an update from the Checkmarx blog
![The History of JavaScript [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://www.checkmarx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog-history-of-javascript.png)
![August 2017: Top Hacks and Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://www.checkmarx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/blog-august-infographic.png)