Sep 12, 2023
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By Sam Quakenbush
The escalation of international legislative interest in regulating the software supply chain has led to an increasing likelihood that tools such as software bills of materials (SBOMs) and AppSec solutions will become essential for companies doing business in the public sector or in highly regulated industries. However, the process of building and enforcing effective regulations presents challenges as well.
Sep 7, 2023
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By Sam Quakenbush
In the face of increasingly impactful malicious attacks, governments of leading economies have turned their attention to the software supply chain security. Regulations like the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for financial institutions and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) for software and hardware providers Australia’s 2023-2030 cybersecurity strategy, and the U.S.
Sep 5, 2023
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By Adam Murray
One of the most vital things to get right in application security is dependency management, and to achieve this, your suite of AppSec tools must be up to date. This means that your vulnerability scanning, detection, and remediation capabilities must be able to identify and address the newest and most exploited vulnerabilities. Do you know what these vulnerabilities are? Have you got them covered? With the help of some of the world’s leading cybersecurity authorities, you can be.
Aug 31, 2023
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By AJ Starita
You don’t need us to tell you that open source software is becoming a very significant percentage of commercial software codebases. Open source components are free, stable, and enable you to focus your resources on the innovative and differentiated aspects of your work. But as the use of open source components increases, compliance with open source licenses has become a complex project of growing importance. So how can you stay on top of compliance and what tools are out there to help?
Aug 29, 2023
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By Rhys Arkins
We’re currently seeing a concerted effort from malicious actors to attack the supply chain through intentionally malicious packages. Our recent research shows a 315 percent rise in the publication of malicious packages to open source registries such as npm and RubyGems between 2021 and the end of Q3, 2022; about 85 percent of those packages stole credentials. This trend requires an urgent shift from detection to prevention.
Aug 24, 2023
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By Jeff Martin
In my previous blog post, I looked at how software supply chain attacks work and what you can do to assess and analyze your security posture. Now, let’s figure out how to use the resultant information to harden your software supply chain against threats.
Aug 22, 2023
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By Rhys Arkins
We’re using more code, software components, and dependencies than ever before, making security breaches an ever-growing threat. It’s easy for developers and DevOps teams to neglect dependency updates when faced with such high volume, but doing so allows applications to fall behind the latest versions if not properly managed. This typically leaves applications using outdated dependencies, which exposes them to ever-increasing security debt and risk.
Aug 17, 2023
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By Jeff Martin
When it comes to applications and software, the key word is ‘more.’ Driven by the needs of a digital economy, businesses depend more and more on applications for everything from simplifying business operations to creating innovative new revenue opportunities. Cloud-native application development adds even more fuel to the fire. However, that word works both ways: Those applications are often more complex and use open-source code that contains more vulnerabilities than ever before.
Aug 15, 2023
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By Rhys Arkins
DevSecOps best practices are increasingly being adopted to secure software supply chains. The challenge is finding ways to optimize these processes. Here are seven key considerations to help you adopt a successful and secure DevSecOps methodology.
Aug 10, 2023
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By Tom Abai
Our threat research team recently uncovered new npm packages that are used to download a new info-stealer variant that uses the popular Electron framework to disguise itself as a legitimate application. In this blog post, we’ll analyze the attack flow of this new info-stealer we detected and explain how it can stay undetected by abusing trusted development tools like Electron.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
DevSecOps best practices are increasingly being adopted to better secure software supply chains. The challenge, though, is finding ways to operationalize these processes so they’re seamless and development and deployment don’t slow down. Join Shiri Arad Ivtsan, Senior Director of Product Management – Mend.io, in this editorial roundtable as these experts explore the challenges DevOps teams and developers face in operationalizing security into their workflows and processes, what’s taking so long to do so and how AI and automation can help.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
Threat actors are after our sensitive data. In 2023, the number of malicious packages published to Node Package Manager (npm) and RubyGems ballooned 315% compared to 2021, and 85% of malicious packages discovered in existing applications were capable of exfiltration – meaning they could cause an unauthorized transmission of information. Software packages containing malicious code are a growing threat, and they may have unknowingly infiltrated your applications.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
Organizations of all kinds are experiencing increasing volumes, frequency, and severity of cyberattacks. 71% of IT and security leaders say that their portfolio of applications has become more vulnerable in the last year alone, and cybercrime is expected to cost companies worldwide around $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. To fight this trend, organizations need a resilient AppSec strategy that can reinforce trust, reliability, and security when faced with adverse conditions.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
Supply chain attacks made headlines in 2022, sending shockwaves through the industry as security and business leaders scrambled to reexamine the security of their own supply chains. In this webinar, experts talk through the stages of a supply chain attack and the different types of attacks to look for. You will also learn what tools and strategies you can start using immediately to assess your own supply chain security and put defenses in place to keep your supply chain protected.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
Threat actors operate by an ironclad rule: If it’s important to businesses, it’s important to them. And they certainly understand the crucial business role of applications. Applications are now the number one attack vector, while software supply chain attacks increased 650 percent in a year. Clearly, if you don’t already have a modern application security program that can support today’s digital world, you need to build one.
Sep 20, 2023
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By Mend
Open source vulnerabilities are in permanent growth mode. A significant quarterly increase in the number of malicious packages published in registries such as npm and rubygems have shown the increasing need to protect against this trending attack. At the same time, companies struggle to close the remediation gap on known vulnerable open source code. It’s all in The Mend Open Source Risk Report, which details these and other significant risks posed by the ongoing rise in open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks.
Aug 24, 2023
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By Mend
Malicious Packages: A Growing Threat to the Software Supply Chain The global economy runs on software applications, and their function and security are critical to every company’s success. Many applications have exploitable vulnerabilities that modern defenders struggle to effectively detect and remediate. In addition to the growing number of vulnerabilities, today’s security teams face the emerging challenge of malicious packages.
Aug 5, 2023
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By Mend
Overview The Mend Jira Security Dashboard is a new option included in the Jira Cloud plugin that provides a centralized view of security issues and risks across all Jira projects, making it easier for you and your teams to prioritize and address security concerns. Use cases for the Jira Security Dashboard The Mend Jira Security Dashboard addresses the following scenarios: As an AppSec Manager, it is imperative to have real-time visibility into the overall security health of your development teams' applications within your issue-tracking tool, Jira.
Aug 5, 2023
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By Mend
Mend Supply Chain Defender helps protect enterprises against software supply chain attacks. It detects and blocks malicious open source packages before your developer can download them — and before they can pollute your codebase with malicious activity. Mend Supply Chain Defender has already detected and reported thousands of malicious packages that were swiftly removed from their registries, to protect open source users from accidentally installing malicious code.
Jul 25, 2023
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By Mend
Mend.io solves the toughest problems in application security for the largest and most demanding organizations in the world, and we do it with automation. Mend.io was the first application security vendor to provide automated remediation workflows for both open source and custom code. We have centered our product strategy on providing industry-leading prioritization of application security threats for both OSS and custom code, integrating automated dependency health to reduce the attack surface and ensuring fast and limitless scale to onboard developers and applications.
Jul 1, 2020
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By Mend
Behind every developer is a beloved programming language. In heated debates over which language is the best, the security card will come into play in support of one language or discredit another. We decided to address this debate and put it to the test by researching WhiteSource's comprehensive database. We focused on open source security vulnerabilities in C, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C++, to find out which programming languages are most secure, which vulnerability types (CWEs) are most common in each language, and why.
Jul 1, 2020
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By Mend
We surveyed over 650 developers, and collected data from the NVD, security advisories, peer-reviewed vulnerability databases, issue trackers and more, to gather the latest industry insights in open source vulnerability management.
Jun 1, 2020
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By Mend
Software development teams are constantly bombarded with an increasingly high number of security alerts. Unfortunately, there is currently no agreed-upon strategy or a straightforward process for vulnerabilities' prioritization. This results in a lot of valuable development time wated on assessing vulnerabilities, while the critical security issues remain unattended.
Jun 1, 2020
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By Mend
Developers across the industry are stepping up to take more responsibility for their code's vulnerability management. In this report we discuss trends in how security is shifting left to the earliest stages of development, putting the power developers in the front seat. We explore the growth of automated tools aimed at helping developers do more with fewer resources and look for answers on what is needed to help close the gap from detection to remediation.
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- Mend Core: We help you keep things in order. Mend is built to streamline your open source governance. With a full layer of alerting, reporting and policy management, you are effortlessly secure and always in control.
- Mend for Developers: Mend for Developers is uniquely designed to simplify developers’ work, while keeping the code secure. Its suite of tools helps speed up integration, find problematic components, and remediate them quickly and easily.
- Mend for Containers: Mend integrates into all stages of the container development lifecycle, including container registries and Kubernetes with automated policy enforcement for maximum visibility and control.
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