Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Understanding the security posture of your application stack is increasingly important. Exploitation of vulnerabilities surpassed phishing as the known initial access vectors in non-Error, non-Misuse breaches, according to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. As a CISO or security leader, are you prepared for this shift in the industry?

Securing your applications is vital in today’s fast-moving world of software development. With threats constantly getting smarter, developers need strong tools to identify and fix weaknesses right from the start. Just ask Alex, a developer who once spent a sleepless night fixing a last-minute security flaw. That’s where Veracode SAST comes in. This powerful tool not only scans your source code and binary files but also integrates seamlessly with your IDEs, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines.

Security teams are drowning in data. From static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) to cloud security posture management (CSPM) and third-party findings, the sheer volume and variety of vulnerability data can overwhelm even the most sophisticated organizations. The problem isn’t just collecting this data—it’s making sense of it. Most solutions fail to unify these disparate data sources into a single, actionable view, leaving teams grappling with.

Modern application environments are increasingly complex, combining containers, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and ephemeral compute. While Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) can uncover vulnerabilities during build time, they often leave a critical gap: runtime security flaw detection and determining whether a detected flaw is actually exploitable and running in production.

Our security monitoring systems recently flagged a suspicious npm package, os-info-checker-es6, which represents a sophisticated and evolving threat within the npm ecosystem. What initially appeared as a simple OS information utility quickly unraveled into a sophisticated multi-stage malware attack. This campaign employs clever Unicode-based steganography to hide its initial malicious code and utilizes a Google Calendar event short link as a dynamic dropper for its final payload.

Shifting left in security, or integrating security early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), can help your organization save time and money. By identifying and addressing potential security flaws early, organizations can reduce the likelihood of vulnerabilities being exploited in production applications. This proactive approach is more cost-effective and time-efficient, as it prevents the accumulation of technical debt and minimizes the need for extensive rework or redesign.

Walking into Moscone South on Monday morning I felt the familiar RSA buzz—thousands of badges, coffee lines that never end, and animated hallway debates about whether AI will save or sink us. This year the conversations were richer than ever. I was thankful that “Secure by Design” is still gaining traction, and many sessions—whether it was about agentic AI, new software liability proposals, or the talent crisis—had the need for secure software a given.

Security teams are increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of alerts generated by detection tools. While detection capabilities have improved over time, this has led to an unintended consequence: alert fatigue. The rapid proliferation of alerts—many of which lack critical context—makes it difficult for security teams to prioritize and address the most urgent vulnerabilities.