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By Natalie Tischler
If your organization stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data, then application security for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a discipline you sustain. And with PCI DSS v4.0.1 now in effect, the standard has stopped accepting passive, point-in-time testing as evidence of a mature security posture. It wants continuous proof.
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By Joe Ariganello
Application security testing (AST) is the practice of scanning software for vulnerabilities using static, dynamic, and component-level analysis – then managing those flaws through remediation, validation, and certification. A new independent report from FOURCASTERS and Lionfish Tech Advisors confirms that AST is not becoming obsolete. AI and cloud platforms are changing how testing gets delivered, but the need for independent testing, flaw lifecycle management, and validation has only grown.
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By Andrea Mazzarini
This briefing covers two distinct horizons. The past week (23–30 September 2026) is a cluster of material, actively exploited edge and enterprise-application flaws, plus confirmed identity and third-party incidents. The past month (31 August–30 September 2026) shows those events as part of a faster pattern: perimeter appliances as the preferred initial-access class, build systems as ransomware feedstock, non-human identity as a wipe and extortion primitive, and overlapping EU and U.S.
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By Natalie Tischler
Third-party code now accounts for 66% of the most dangerous, long-lived vulnerabilities across application portfolios, according to Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security Report. For AppSec and engineering leaders, that stat tells a familiar story: shrinking release cycles, expanding open-source dependency footprints, and mounting regulatory pressure.
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By Andrea Mazzarini
The week’s material risk is not a single CVE. It is the identity and policy control plane. In seven days, CISA confirmed active exploitation against Cisco Identity Services Engine, Check Point VPN and management servers, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager when used as an OAuth authorization server, and Arista’s on-prem VeloCloud Orchestrator. These products issue tokens, enforce network policy, or orchestrate SD-WAN.
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By Natalie Tischler
AppSec teams know application risk is growing, but budget conversations are often won and lost outside the security team, in rooms full of executives who speak the language of revenue and delivery velocity, not CVSS scores. The core argument: application security software is easier to fund when it is tied to growth, resilience, compliance, and delivery outcomes… not just technical findings.
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By Stuart Sessions
There are lots of terms used to generalize what a mature application security program looks like. Find & Fix. Continuous Remediation. Code to Cloud, Unified Risk. The underlying message in these buzzwords is the same: security needs to be systemic. Defense in Depth is preached as a security best practice by leading cybersecurity agencies like NIST and CISA, and these principles are especially relevant to the metastasizing software supply chain risk seen across enterprises.
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By Katy Gwilliam
The European Union has made great strides to enhance cybersecurity over the past few years, with a comprehensive framework of core legislative acts designed to protect critical infrastructure. The EU Cyber Resilience Act, originally published as Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 on 20 November 2024, and entered into force on 10 December 2024, shifts the burden of proof so that manufacturers must now show their software is secure, not just claim it.
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By Natalie Tischler
Exploitation of software vulnerabilities is now the number one cause of breaches, according to the 2026 Verizon DBIR Report. At the same time, release velocity keeps climbing and AI coding tools are now authoring roughly half of all committed code in organizations that use them. For application security and engineering teams, the math is unforgiving: more code, faster delivery, and a growing attack surface.
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By Andrea Mazzarini
This executive intelligence briefing covers from the past week (2–9 September 2026) and the past month (approximately 10 August – 9 September 2026). CISOs, start here: do not open a 974-row spreadsheet. That queue is the failure mode. This week’s material risk sits in four places you can name before noon.
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By VERACODE
In this episode, hosts Ryan and Brian are joined by Johnny Wong, VP of Solutions Architecture at Veracode, to explore how AI-assisted “vibe coding” is changing the way software gets built—and the new security risks that come with it. While large language models are making developers faster and more productive, studies shared in the discussion show that a significant portion of AI-generated code still contains security vulnerabilities, raising concerns about scale and speed in modern development pipelines.
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By VERACODE
In the year 2079, vulnerabilities are endless and breaches are a daily reality. Jordan Kodak, a weary engineer, dreams of a world where developers can innovate without fear. She leaves Earth in search of Secura Prime—a legend of flawless code—and decades later receives a distress signal from a temporal anomaly. Meet Cipher, a sentinel from 2177, where secure coding finally took root. Armed with future knowledge, Jordan realizes the utopia she sought isn’t a place… it’s a practice.
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By VERACODE
With AI tools, **everyone** is becoming a developer. Marketing teams, finance teams, and business users are now building applications and generating code. So the big question is: In this clip, Tim Brown, CISO in Residence at Team8 and former CISO at Solarwinds, discusses the shift happening in organizations and why strong guardrails are more important than ever in the AI-coding era. Subscribe for more insights on Application Security, AI Coding, and DevSecOps.
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By VERACODE
In the age of AI coding, annual audits and snapshots are no longer enough. Discover **Continuous Attestation** — the practice of producing ongoing, verifiable evidence that your applications and pipelines are always running in a trusted, policy-conformant state. In this video, Anthony Barkley, Chief Strategy Officer at Veracode, explains why independence in attestation is critical for earning trust from regulators, customers, and boards — especially when AI agents are writing code.
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By VERACODE
Is your organization generating up to 80% of its new code with AI? You might be proud of the speed — but are you ready for the security risks? In this video, we reveal the hidden danger: multiple studies show that **40-50% of AI-generated code changes contain vulnerabilities**. Discover why AI coding is accelerating development faster than ever — and why traditional security approaches are no longer enough.
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By VERACODE
Struggling with inefficient secure coding workflows, lack of visibility into developer actions, and growing security debt? In this clip, Christian Dalomba breaks down the biggest challenges organizations face with secure development and shows how Veracode Fix Analytics helps you move beyond just finding vulnerabilities to actually fixing them faster and smarter. Key takeaways.
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By VERACODE
As AI accelerates software development at machine speed, security teams are struggling to keep up with remediation. In this insightful interview, Veracode CISO Sohail Iqbal breaks down the security realities of AI-assisted coding and shares how organizations can close the growing gap between code velocity and secure deployment.
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By VERACODE
How do you scale a world-class tech company while staying ahead in application security and AI-driven innovation? In this powerful exclusive interview on The Vlad Kachur Show, Brian Roche, CEO of Veracode, breaks down exactly how he transformed Veracode into one of the globe's leading application security platforms trusted by enterprises worldwide.
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By VERACODE
-- - Discover the latest game-changing updates to the Veracode Application Risk Management Platform! We're making it easier than ever to embed security seamlessly into your workflows and secure software faster. In this teaser, get a quick overview of the most exciting new features.
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By VERACODE
Hear from Veracode's SVP of Business Operations, Sarah Law, on how developers face immense pressure to deliver software quickly while security and compliance teams struggle to keep pace with constant changes. The Veracode platform addresses this challenge by discovering and organizing all technology assets across systems, then assessing the risk associated with each one. What sets Veracode apart is its built-in governance and unified, configurable policy framework that adapts to each customer's unique security posture and regulatory requirements.
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By Veracode
While shifting security left in your software development lifecycle is crucial to application security success, it's still imperative to maintain testing in the later stages of your process. After all, some web application vulnerabilities can only be discovered at that point in the SDLC.
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By Veracode
With a comprehensive AppSec program, you want to understand your entire development, security, and application footprint so you can roll out consistent tools and processes. As a result, only a portion of your applications are covered, leaving vulnerabilities unprotected. And blind spots are clouding visibility into risk reduction efforts, making it difficult to report on progress throughout your organization.
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By Veracode
Veracode Static Analysis provides fast, automated security feedback to developers; conducts a full policy scan before deployment; and gives clear guidance on what issues to focus on and how to fix them faster.
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By Veracode
You want AppSec tools in your development process, but anything less than full integration undermines your program's effectiveness. Getting the right resources into developers' hands typically requires: tools, systems, and processes. Ongoing maintenance: Routine patches and upgrades can be time consuming-especially if you're supporting multiple geographies or teams-and may break your customizations.
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By Veracode
In a world where time is money, companies are required to churn out software quickly or get left in the dust. To stay ahead of the market, developers are turning towards open source code, which - when secure - can be a valuable asset towards their efforts
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By Veracode
Developers want to create secure code, but lack training, so they must rely on AppSec experts to create secure applications. But the severe cybersecurity talent shortage leads to: As a result, developers are often conducting their own security research, which takes substantial time, increasing software delays and costs. With Veracode, you enable developers to write secure code and decrease flaws, so you can make your developers security self-sufficient.
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By Veracode
Veracode Security Labs shifts application security knowledge "left," earlier in the development cycle, through guided, interactive exercises that train developers to tackle modern threats in the evolving cybersecurity landscape and deliver secure code on time.
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By Veracode
Today, most organizations are in a race to deliver new, innovative software before their competitors. In turn, they have gone from bi-annual software releases to daily, hourly, or even by-the-minute releases. To keep up with these rapid deployments, security has had to shift from being a late-stage blocker, to an integrated part of the development process. Developers have been doing their best to implement these security measures, but since their performance is often tied to the rate of deployments, speed tends to take precedence. As a security professional, what are some steps you can take so that security doesn't take a back seat to speed?
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Veracode delivers the application security solutions and services today’s software-driven world requires. Veracode’s unified platform assesses and improves the security of applications from inception through production so that businesses can confidently innovate with the web and mobile applications they build, buy and assemble as well as the components they integrate into their environments.
Veracode’s powerful cloud-based platform, deep security expertise, and systematic, policy-based approach provide enterprises with a simpler and more scalable way to reduce application-layer risk across their global software infrastructures.
The Veracode Solution:
- Overcoming DevSecOps Challenges: Innovating through software holds many promises but also bears risks. AppSec programs often struggle with the same problems:
- Some solutions are hard to manage and scale.
- Developers are not empowered to fix security issues.
- Security teams lack bandwidth to manage DevSecOps programs.
- Delivered Through SaaS: Our SaaS model delivers a better, more scalable service at a lower cost. Because we've analyzed over 10 trillion lines of code, Veracode is able to provide the fastest path to accuracy - without tuning. Our expertise is based on analyzing customer programs for over a decade.
- Application Analysis: Veracode simplifies AppSec programs by combining five application security analysis types in one solution, all integrated into the development pipeline.
- Developer Enablement: Most AppSec programs forget that there is only one team that can fix security findings: the development team. Veracode provides developers with security feedback in their IDE in seconds as they are writing code, helping them learn on the job.
- AppSec Governance: AppSec programs can only be successful if all stakeholders value and support them. That’s why Veracode helps security teams to demonstrate the value of AppSec.
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