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Faced with the growing complexity of software development environments, combined with expanding cyber threats and regulatory requirements, AppSec teams find themselves grappling with a daunting array of challenges. While the advent and subsequent adoption of "shift left" methodologies marks a significant and necessary step forward, it is now evident that this approach requires an accompanying mindset shift.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the maturity of an organization's Application Security (AppSec) program is not just beneficial; it's imperative for resilience at scale and reducing security debt accumulation. Since software is increasingly central to business operations, the need for robust AppSec programs has never been more critical. Here’s a guide to understanding the various stages of AppSec maturity and how to evolve through them for effective risk management.

You’re confident in your development chops—confident enough to know the apps you’ve built aren’t completely free of security and configuration flaws. You’ve also researched the deep ecosystem of scanning tools available and perhaps got overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choice. What’s the right “portfolio” of open-source app security tools to identify vulnerabilities in your dependencies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configurations, containers, and more?

With the alarming number of data breaches and vulnerabilities today, security is now a primary concern for organizations and their customers, but knowing how to efficiently develop and scale secure applications is still a problem. Tackling this challenge requires considering the potential security risks of a new feature or service much earlier in the development cycle, an idea that is foundational to the Secure by Design approach.

The term application security refers to all the practices that are aimed to protect applications from security threats, starting from design and through the development process, up to deployment and maintenance.

Maybe you’re considering AICPA SOC 2 certification? Aikido was recently examined to check that our system and the design of our security controls meet the AICPA’s SOC 2 requirements. Because we learned a lot about SOC 2 standards during our audit, we wanted to share some of the insights that we think might be helpful to someone starting the same process. Read our top tips on becoming ISO 27001:2022 compliant.

We recently released the State of DevSecOps study, in which we analyzed tens of thousands of applications and cloud environments to assess adoption of best practices that are at the core of DevSecOps today. In particular, we found that: In this post, we provide key recommendations based on these findings, and we explain how you can leverage Datadog Application Security Management (ASM) and Cloud Security Management (CSM) to improve your security posture.

You know your latest web application is inherently vulnerable to all kinds of attacks. You also know app security can never be perfect, but you can make it better tomorrow than it was yesterday. The problem is that whether you’re using enterprise-grade (aka, expensive and complex) security tools, or have cobbled together a handful of open-source projects into a CI/CD pipeline or Git commit hooks and are hoping for the best, your toolkit can’t help you see.