Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

July 2021

How to Bridge the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Application security remains a top concern for organizations, making the need for skilled cybersecurity professionals as urgent as ever. Nearly half of security practitioners in high-performing enterprises who participated in a recent Ponemon Institute research report about reducing enterprise security risks stated that hacks to insecure applications are their organization’s biggest concern.

The Complete Guide to Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities

Prototype Pollution is one of the less known vulnerabilities in the security community. Researchers started to discuss it as a potential attack vector around 2017, and the first vulnerabilities were found in the wild at the start of 2018. In this article, we’re going to take a deep dive into what Prototype Pollution vulnerabilities are, and how they can be mitigated.

How Packages' External Resources Threaten Your Supply Chain

Many developers already know that in some ecosystems, open source dependencies might run their custom code from packages when they are being installed. While this capability can be used for both good and evil, today we’ll focus on a legit use case that, when misused, can escalate and be used to compromise your organization’s supply chain. If you haven’t guessed yet, I’m talking about downloading and linking external dependencies during the install process.