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The latest News and Information on Application Security including monitoring, testing, and open source.

Strategies for Increasing AI Efficiency - Insights from the Cisco Research Efficient AI Summit

As AI models become more accurate, they are becoming much larger, requiring a significant amount of computing power to run. How can we make the future of AI more scalable and sustainable? Cisco Research hosted a virtual summit on efficient AI, bringing together researchers to explore efficient AI challenges and discuss opportunities for solving those challenges now and into the future. The Cisco Research team has been working on efficient AI initiatives for several years, contributing research papers and incorporating their work into an open-source project called ModelSmith.

Nucleus & Cycode Integration Delivers Unified Vulnerability Management and Application Security

As modern enterprise IT environments become more complex, the need for robust cybersecurity measures continues to grow. Because of this expanding complexity, DevSecOps functions are more common, requiring the integration of security into the application development lifecycle. Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) solutions offer a unified framework for securing the diverse application environment and merging security into the application development process.

How to Protect Your Business from Data Leaks

Friday, Jul 19th, 2024 In this blog, we're going to discuss how you can protect your business from data leaks that can result from insecure application programming interfaces. Cloud native applications are composed of loosely coupled microservices, which are predominantly intercommunicating via APIs.

Protect Your Business from Being Cryptojacked!

Cryptojacking is rapidly emerging as the most popular type of attack on cloud native applications and infrastructure. Care to guess how many cryptojacking attacks were recording in 2023? As a reference point, in the year before (2022), there were 139M cryptojacking attacks. However, this number jumped 659% the following year (2023) to 1.06B! That averages nearly 3M cryptojacking attacks every day, on average.

Application Security report: 2024 update

Over the last twelve months, the Internet security landscape has changed dramatically. Geopolitical uncertainty, coupled with an active 2024 voting season in many countries across the world, has led to a substantial increase in malicious traffic activity across the Internet. In this report, we take a look at Cloudflare’s perspective on Internet application security. This report is the fourth edition of our Application Security Report and is an official update to our Q2 2023 report.

Uncover vulnerabilities in C# applications using Coverity Rapid Scan Static | Synopsys

In this video you will discover how Coverity’s Rapid Scan Static Analysis can help developers find and fix vulnerabilities in their code early in the development cycle by providing quick feedback on the most impactful issues. This new update in the Coverity 2024.6.0 release highlights how developers can run quick scans for C# applications via the Coverity Rapid Scan Static engine; returning quick and accurate static analysis results related to issues such as deserialization, hardcoded secrets, unsafe API calls, single-file data flow, etc. at record speeds.

Going beyond "shift left" to extend AppSec in all directions

A week before RSA 2024, Forrester predicted which subjects and themes would come to the forefront of the conference. They emphasized that we’d see a focus on proactive security, defined as “a strategic approach to controlling security posture and reducing breaches through strong visibility, prioritization, and remediation.” I went into the conference with this prediction in mind. However, I was surprised by what I found.

Why we're stoked to partner with Laravel

Laravel is a premier PHP framework and loved by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. In fact over 30% of our Aikido user base already leverages Laravel. As of today, we are Larvel’s preferred AppSec provider. Developers building with Laravel can directly secure their new or existing Forge apps within a few clicks – powered by Aikido. This integration is designed to help PHP developers get security done.