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October 2021

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Top Trends Impacting Your Applications

It’s always important to take a pause to evaluate your software security – and what better time to do that than during Cybersecurity Awareness Month? To help get you thinking, we’ve compiled a list of cybersecurity trends that are happening now and will likely continue throughout the next several years. 1. Ubiquitous Connectivity: We are quickly moving to a world where everyone and everything is connected. Most software is internet-connected, as are most devices.

Software Composition Analysis Mitigates Systemic Risk in the Popular NPM Repository

Chris Wysopal, Veracode Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, recently sat down to discuss the open source supply chain attack on the popular npm repository. Below is the transcript and corresponding video of his reaction. Just a few days ago, we saw a classic open source supply chain attack where someone modified a JavaScript library, UA-Parser-JS, which is in the npm repository.

Veracode Co-Founder & CTO Chris Wysopal talks to BBC World News

Chris Wysopal joined BBC World News for an interview to discuss the global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. He explored the cause of the outage and explained how the platform’s dependency on its network highlights the importance of mitigating systemic risk.