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A Complete Guide to Fintech Cloud Security

Apr 29, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
With the pace of growth in financial services accelerating, fintech is, in real terms, the new normal, not the new disruptor. Cloud technology has fueled this revolution, equipping companies with tools that can be scaled quickly in response to customer demands and market needs, and enabling cost savings that can be passed on to these customers.
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How to Set Up AWS Traffic Mirroring for Astra API Monitoring | Full Step-by-Step Guide

Apr 29, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
This tutorial provides a complete walkthrough for setting up AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring to enable packet-level monitoring with Astra’s API Security platform. You'll learn how to configure a scalable and production-ready environment using Network Load Balancers, Nitro-based EC2 instances, and properly filtered traffic sessions. The guide includes: It also covers key assumptions, unsupported configurations (like classic/Xen instances), and best practices for a secure and efficient deployment.
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How to Set Up Astra Traffic Collector in a Linux VM | Complete Installation & Troubleshooting Guide

Apr 29, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
This tutorial provides a complete guide to deploying Astra Traffic Collector inside a Linux-based VM across cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, or DigitalOcean. It includes all necessary installation steps and configuration best practices for traffic monitoring in VM environments. In this video, we cover: This guide is designed for DevOps, security engineers, or platform teams looking to integrate deep traffic visibility into their environments with minimal overhead.
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Why is Fintech API Security Important in 2025

Apr 29, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the invisible backbone of everything from mobile banking to cryptocurrency exchanges. These powerful interfaces enable transactions to become frictionless, allowing data to be shared in real-time and services to be integrated in new ways across platforms, thereby transforming the way financial services operate and delivering customer value. But that very interconnectedness that drives innovation also creates new points of risk.
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What is the Ideal Penetration Testing Frequency for You?

Apr 29, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Security testing hasn’t just fallen behind—it’s playing the wrong game in a world where product teams ship updates like software streams, testing once a year is akin to locking the doors after the party has ended. It’s not just late; it’s irrelevant. Most orgs still treat pentests like performance reviews: formal, infrequent, and disconnected from the day-to-day reality. But risk doesn’t work on an annual schedule.
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Spring 2025 Product Updates: What's New at Astra Security

Apr 16, 2025 By Rithika In Astra
Dev teams work in sprints. Security threats don’t. As the code runs fast and releases the ship daily, security often plays catch-up. Not because the teams do not care, but because most of the tools are not actually designed for modern teams. Result? There is a long list of unresolved issues. A lot of alerts. Limited visibility. And in the rush to ship, security still gets treated as a blocker instead of a baseline. Meanwhile, the risk keeps growing.
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Setting Up Astra's API Security with NGINX Ingress in Kubernetes

Apr 11, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
In this video, we’ll show you how to integrate Astra’s API Security Platform with your Kubernetes cluster using an NGINX Ingress controller. This setup allows Astra to passively observe live API traffic flowing through your ingress, enabling continuous vulnerability detection without interrupting your application. We'll cover.
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How to Set Up Astra's API Traffic Collector in Kubernetes

Apr 11, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up Astra’s API Traffic Collector inside a Kubernetes environment. This integration enables you to mirror live traffic to Astra's security engine—without impacting performance—so you can uncover vulnerabilities in real-time, without needing to configure test environments or rerun tests manually. You'll learn how to.
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10 Best IoT Security Companies in 2025 [Expert Opinion]

Apr 7, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Security vendors love dashboards with polished interfaces, graphs, alerts, and AI-powered insights. But as a CTO, you don’t need another dashboard; you need security that works when it matters. When an attack slips through, the UI won’t save you—only real-time detection, automated defenses, and a team that responds before you even call will. The best IOT security companies don’t just sell tools; they embed security into the fabric of your infrastructure.
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Salesforce Penetration Testing Guide: Steps, Tools & Best Practices

Apr 4, 2025 By Prateek Kuber In Astra
Ask any CTO if they pentest their web apps, APIs, or cloud infrastructure; the answer is almost always yes. But ask if they’ve ever pentested their Salesforce environment, and you’ll likely get a silent—or hesitant- “Doesn’t Salesforce security cover that?” Here’s the problem: Salesforce is not just a CRM. It’s an application stack, a data warehouse, and a workflow engine—all deeply integrated with your business operations.
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Umbraco Pentesting: How to Secure Your CMS Against Threats?

Apr 4, 2025 By Prateek Kuber In Astra
If you ask a security team if they run pentests on their web applications or APIs, the answer is always a strong “Yes”. But if you ask if they pentested their Umbraco setup, you will get a more hesitant, “I thought Umbraco is secure by default”. Umbraco is a powerful CMS, but assuming it is secure by default is a mistake.
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PCI Compliance Test: Ensure Your Business Meets PCI DSS Requirements

Apr 4, 2025 By Prateek Kuber In Astra
Every business that processes credit card transactions knows that security is important. But, when asked whether they actively test their systems for PCI DSS compliance, many often assume their payment processor has it covered. This assumption could later turn out to be costly. PCI DSS compliance doesn’t mean you outsource your payment processing to a secure provider but actually protect every endpoint where cardholder data is stored and processed.
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What Are The Top 5 API Security Challenges?

Apr 4, 2025 By Prateek Kuber In Astra
The biggest risk to API security isn’t attackers—it’s how companies misunderstand APIs. They see them as engineering tools rather than business-critical contracts that connect systems, partners, and customers. Data leaks, fraud, and service disruptions aren’t just caused by bad code; they stem from APIs being built, deployed, and monetized without security as a priority. Worse, most companies don’t even know how many APIs they have, let alone what they expose.
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What are API Security Scanners and How to Choose the Right One?

Apr 4, 2025 By Prateek Kuber In Astra
APIs are business-critical assets, yet organizations overlook proper API security, relying on outdated tools built for web applications instead of modern API-driven ecosystems. The problem isn’t just bad coding practices but also API visibility, authentication gaps, and unchecked business logic flaws. API security requires dedicated and specific testing that understands how APIs are attacked; traditional scanners fail to keep up with that.
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Top Network Penetration Testing Companies in 2025

Apr 2, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Most teams approach network penetration testing the same way: pick a few well-known tools, run automated scans, and call it a day. But in today’s evolving threat landscape, that is a losing strategy. Attackers do not just rely on off-the-shelf exploits but adapt, chain vulnerabilities, and find gaps that automated tools miss. CTOs and engineering leaders need to rethink their approach with respect to context, strategy, and how they integrate into your security workflow.
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Pentesting as an Engineering Problem

Apr 1, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Imagine a bridge built without stress testing, where engineers only check for cracks after construction. When flaws inevitably appear, they scramble to patch weak spots until the subsequent failure forces another round of inspections. This is how most companies still approach pentesting: periodic assessments, reactive fixes, and security are treated as unwelcome checkpoints.
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A CTO's Guide to Network Penetration Testing Tools

Apr 1, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Most teams approach network penetration testing the same way: pick a few well-known tools, run automated scans, and call it a day. But in today’s evolving threat landscape, that is a losing strategy. Attackers do not just rely on off-the-shelf exploits but adapt, chain vulnerabilities, and find gaps that automated tools miss. CTOs and engineering leaders need to rethink their approach with respect to context, strategy, and how they integrate into your security workflow.
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NGINX Integration: Protect Your API Gateway with Astra

Apr 1, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
NGINX is a widely used API gateway that efficiently manages API requests, but securing API traffic requires continuous monitoring. By integrating Astra’s API Security Platform with NGINX, you can enhance security by analyzing API requests in real time and detecting vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
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Azure Functions Integration: Secure Your Serverless APIs with Astra

Apr 1, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
Azure Functions provide a scalable and event-driven way to build serverless APIs, but securing them requires continuous monitoring and threat detection. By integrating Astra’s API Security Platform with Azure Functions, you can proactively identify vulnerabilities, monitor API traffic, and protect your serverless applications from real-world attacks.
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