The latest News and Information on Application Security including monitoring, testing, and open source.
Modern IT environments typically include a wide range of applications: software developed in house, hosted software platforms, open-source tools and purchased solutions. Because these applications access sensitive systems, data and other IT assets, cybercriminals are eager to exploit them during attacks. CIS Control 16 offers application software security controls for strengthening your organization’s security posture.
On March 29, 2022, details of a zero-day vulnerability in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22965) were leaked. For many, this is reminiscent of the zero-day vulnerability in Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) back in December 2021.
Details of a zero-day vulnerability in Spring Framework were leaked on March 29, 2022 but promptly taken down by the original source. Although much of the initial speculation about the nature of the vulnerability was incorrect, we now know that the vulnerability has the potential to be quite serious depending on your organization’s use of Spring Framework. There is also a dedicated CVE 2022-22965 assigned to this vulnerability. We will keep this blog updated as new information comes up.
We recently launched the 12th annual edition of our State of Software Security (SOSS) report. To draw conclusions for the report, we examined the entire history of active applications. For the public sector data, we took the same approach. We examined the entire history of applications for government agencies and educational institutions. We found that the public sector has the highest proportion of security flaws of any industry.
What do cybercriminals love? (Mostly themselves, but that is beside the point.) They love organizations that have unmitigated risks in their web applications and application program interfaces (APIs). With the entire world connected via the internet, the easiest and quickest way for threat actors to infiltrate your systems or steal customer data is through web applications.
You hear a lot about shifting your application security (AppSec) left – in other words, shifting AppSec to the beginning of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). While we firmly believe that you should continue scanning in development environments, that doesn’t mean that you should neglect applications that have been deployed to or staged in runtime environments.
