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For individuals not completely immersed in the world of IT and cybersecurity, it can be hard to keep up with the latest terms and acronyms.

You can’t open a newspaper today without reading about another cyberattack or data breach—with web applications accounting for a fair share of the reporting. Web application vulnerabilities, poor infrastructure configurations, and inadequate security controls make these web-based targets a prime focus for attackers. That’s why organizations need to make sure they’ve implemented front-end or “client-side security” as well as server-side or back-end security.

In an ever-expanding web landscape, JavaScript is the glue that holds website and web application development together. But eventually, weaknesses, cracks, and gaps are going to appear in the JavaScript code. When this happens, businesses may find themselves at risk of something more dangerous. Understanding JavaScript security in today’s digital landscape, and the issues and problems related to vulnerable JavaScript code, are critical to protecting businesses and client-side interactions.

It’s open source, anyone can audit it, but is it safe? In this blog our CSO explores why distribution of malicious scripts via libraries is causing a stir amongst the open-source community and how you can defend against it.

Modern web frameworks can simplify the web application development process dramatically, facilitating innovation and saving time. However, their use can come at a steep price if the framework contains vulnerable or malicious third-party code. JavaScript security can help protect against the dangers of third-party code making it key for use in web frameworks.

Brilliant business ideas are driven by brilliant entrepreneurs. Enter Feroot’s own Ivan Tsarynny, CEO and Vitaly Lim, CTO, whose vision to improve client-side or “front-end” security for businesses around the globe resulted in the closing of $11 million in seed funding led by True Ventures. Feroot will use the funds to meet growing demand for client-side security solutions by accelerating product development and go-to-market initiatives.

With constant pressure on web application and software development teams to churn out code for new website tools/features, it makes sense to leverage code depositories and JavaScript libraries to expedite the development process. In fact, code depositories, like GitHub, are so important to the web development process, that the vast majority of organizational websites use them. But code depositories and libraries—whether their internal or external—can hide a danger known as shadow code.

In today’s world, businesses, economies, and lives are connected by a complex spider web of code and software applications. This code and these applications drive e-commerce, financial transactions, and data input. They impact our ability to quickly transfer money from one account to another, to fill out an online mortgage application, and to order supplies from a vendor. The code that drives these systems is complicated. If something can go wrong, it will.