As a software engineer in a cloud-native world, you’re the first line of defense in web application security. Armed with a few best practices that have a huge impact, securing both the code you create and the code you compile can be simple. Here are five tips that make your role easier in protecting data with secure development.

To secure our world, Cybersecurity Awareness Month encourages four steps that make it easy to stay safe online. As a CISO, my team and I advocate for these practices constantly within our organization. If you are a security practitioner looking to bolster cybersecurity awareness, here’s a brief look at how we explain these steps to help make staying safe online easier. Before we dive in, making cybersecurity practices relatable and clear is key to the adoption at any organization.

Webp is the backbone of the webp extension. Any image that is saved to the webp image format most likely was created using the webp library. The library was released in 2010 by Google.

New software security data demonstrates that Software Composition Analysis (SCA) will help bolster the safety and integrity of open-source software usage for organizations in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region in particular. The EU Cyber Resilience Act makes this research especially crucial and timely. Let’s dive in and look at recommendations for EMEA teams wanting to secure cloud-native development.

Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the fifth and final part of the series, and it will teach you to handle credentials and secrets management best practices for securing cloud-native applications. Every organization has their way of managing credentials. In the past, with legacy application architectures, this was a bit more manual and arduous.

Developing and maintaining secure code at scale is hard. Having the right Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solution makes it easier, but how are practitioners to choose? In the following interview, you’ll learn about three emerging trends from detailed analysis of the SAST landscape in The Forrester Wave™: Static Application Security Testing, Q3 2023.

Deploying software and hoping it’s “safe enough” isn’t a measurable security strategy. It’s certainly not something that’s going to bode well when the time comes to disclose processes and practices for managing cybersecurity risks.

Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the fourth part of the series, and it will teach you why and how to easily enable encryption and save yourself headaches down the road. Here's a new motto: encrypt everything! When securely moving to cloud-native technologies, building encryption in from the start will save us a lot of headaches later.

There’s a growing array of risks lurking within the supply chain of the digital solutions we increasingly depend upon. Leaving gaps in your software supply chain security (SSCS) could spell disaster for your organization. Let’s explore how new analysis defines an end-to-end solution and why Veracode was ranked as an Overall Leader, Product Leader, Innovation Leader, and Market Leader in the Software Supply Chain Security Leadership Compass 2023 by KuppingerCole Analysts AG.

Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the third part of the series, and it will teach you how to secure cloud storage and handle access controls on S3 buckets. Each cloud provider has managed storage services that your organization is already probably utilizing.