The challenges of keeping open source up-to-date

Open source software has become an integral part of modern application development, enabling developers to accelerate their projects by leveraging pre-existing libraries and frameworks. Open source offers numerous benefits, yet it's not without its challenges. A significant hurdle is ensuring that dependencies remain up-to-date. In our latest blog post, we delve into the complexities associated with updating open source components.

Who's Calling? Spam, Scams and Wasted Time

First ever insight into those annoying spam calls provides enlightening detail into how many calls are there, where are they coming from, and how much time is wasted dealing with them. It’s sort of the new normal - never answer your phone if you don’t know the caller and let it go to voicemail. Why? Because of the proliferation of spam calls that nobody wants to receive. But just how bad is it? Global communications provider, Truecaller, released its’ first Monthly U.S.

Introducing Snyk AppRisk Essentials

Snyk AppRisk Essentials is Snyk’s first ASPM offering, designed to help AppSec teams boost their Snyk-based developer security program. The solution helps Snyk customers automatically discover the different assets used to build their applications, manage coverage to ensure these assets are being secured properly by Snyk, and better prioritize issues based on the risk they pose to the business.

Six More Top Tips For Holistic AppSec and Software Supply Chain Security

In my previous post, I began to list the ways you can strengthen your security posture, with some holistic approaches to application security and the software supply chain. In this second part of the series, let’s look at six more important considerations.

FortiGate Firewall - Top 10 Best Practices

FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence services to deliver protection and high performance, including encrypted traffic inspection. FortiGate reduces complexity with automated visibility into applications, users, networks, and security-rated traffic to ease the implementation burden. The importance of getting the firewall configurations right cannot be overstated.

The complete guide to compliance risk management

To build a successful business you’ll need to acquire new customers, save on costs, and avoid major pitfalls that could impact your bottom line. An important aspect of this is managing your organization's compliance risk. These include the risk of penalties, legal judgments, and other issues that could come as a result of not complying with legal regulations and industry standards.

Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review

This post is also available in 한국어, 日本語, Português. The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of metrics. Below, we present a summary of key findings, and then explore them in more detail in subsequent sections.

Anheuser-Busch Distributor, Ben E. Keith, Network Breach Update

Ben E. Keith Company (BEK) is a food and drink distributor that serves over 62 Texas counties and 15 states. They are a service provider for Anheuser-Busch products, providing everything from craft and import drinks to steaks and sugar. In October, BEK announced a possible data breach of their network information, but further details required an investigation. Their investigations have presumably ended, as a notice for the event has recently appeared on the Texas Attorney General’s website.

Regional ISPs Are Narrowing the Digital Divide-But Challenges Remain

Federal and private funding, new market entrants, and creative problem-solving have made it possible to extend broadband connectivity to more U.S. households than ever. But as regional and rural broadband providers, electric utilities and co-ops, satellite operators, and others push to fully close the digital divide, a remaining challenge looms: ensuring enough IP address space to support this growing subscriber base.