Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Picture your online shopping site overwhelmed with fake orders, your customer accounts being drained one after another, or your essential APIs flooded by an endless wave of automated attacks. This is the reality businesses face today—thanks to a fully automated army of cyber criminals determined to cause harm. In this digital bot invasion, businesses of all kinds are under urgent pressure to establish defenses that effectively fight this digital threat.

The software security landscape is evolving faster than ever, and AI is accelerating this change. As generative and embedded AI become core to how software is developed, tested, and deployed, security must adapt to protect an entirely new layer of risk. At Mend.io, we’ve spent the past year reimagining what Application Security Testing (AST) looks like in this new reality.

Third-party attacks have emerged as one of the most critical threats in the modern cyber landscape. Adversaries increasingly exploit vulnerabilities within external vendors, suppliers, contractors, and service providers to gain indirect access to target organizations, often with severe consequences. These breaches can lead to significant data loss, operational disruption, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage.

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a process that provides security by monitoring and verifying changes made to critical files, directories, and system configurations in an IT environment. This is accomplished by taking the current state of files, operating system binaries, application files, configuration files, logs, or sensitive data, and comparing them against a known and trusted baseline.

Your password manager might be closing up shop, putting your digital security at risk. In recent months, two major tech players – Dropbox and Microsoft – have discontinued their built-in password manager features. If you’ve been relying on Microsoft Authenticator or Dropbox Password, it’s now time to decide how you’ll protect your accounts going forward.

Banking executives managing $16 trillion across 1,040 federally supervised institutions wake up to a harsh reality every day. Cybersecurity in banking isn’t just another checkbox on their risk management list anymore it’s become their biggest operational nightmare affecting the entire financial services industry.

As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, more organizations are running virtual machines (VMs) inside Kubernetes using platforms like OpenShift Virtualization, SUSE Virtualization, KubeVirt, Mirantis k0rdent Virtualization, and Spectro Cloud VMO. This hybrid approach consolidates container and VM workloads on a single infrastructure, improving flexibility—but it also introduces new challenges for backup and recovery.

In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re focusing on ways to avoid cyber scams. It may sound simple, but it isn’t, especially since cybercriminals are getting more and more clever in their methods. Scams can come in many forms, from fake emails to fraudulent websites, and they can be hard to spot if you’re not careful.

DevSecOps is often discussed as the solution for integrating security into rapid development cycles. Yet, misconceptions about what it is and how it works can prevent teams from adopting it. As an engineering manager, you need to balance speed with quality, and introducing a new methodology can seem disruptive. The truth is, a well-implemented DevSecOps framework doesn’t create bottlenecks; it removes them. It empowers your team to build secure, high-quality software faster.

Many teams assume that embedding payment forms in an iframe keeps them compliant with PCI DSS 4.0.1, Requirement 6.4.3. The reasoning sounds logical – compliance seems guaranteed if card data never reaches your infrastructure. However, iframe payment security PCI DSS 6.4.3 doesn’t work on assumptions; it works on control. The responsibility shifts to new layers of your website’s supply chain.