AWS WAF is a managed web application firewall that monitors network traffic to your AWS applications and resources. As a perimeter-based firewall, AWS WAF is designed to secure the boundaries between your applications and the public internet. This means that it’s capable of protecting all of the various elements of your AWS architecture, including Amazon API Gateways, load balancers, and Amazon CloudFront distributions.

We recently released the State of DevSecOps study, in which we analyzed tens of thousands of applications and cloud environments to assess adoption of best practices that are at the core of DevSecOps today. In particular, we found that: In this post, we provide key recommendations based on these findings, and we explain how you can leverage Datadog Application Security Management (ASM) and Cloud Security Management (CSM) to improve your security posture.

As application architectures shift to the cloud and the velocity of software delivery accelerates, organizations are seeking more powerful capabilities to identify security vulnerabilities within their production applications. Traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools, by themselves, are insufficient.

Security teams require complete visibility into their hosts, containers, and functions in order to detect, prioritize, and remediate their most pressing security risks. The Datadog Agent helps you achieve this visibility by collecting deep insights in your environment through logs, distributed traces, infrastructure metrics, and other key telemetry.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) is the practice of identifying the open source libraries your code depends on. By using SCA, you can analyze these dependencies and determine whether they are affected by any known vulnerabilities, contain malicious code, introduce licensing risk, or are poorly maintained. SCA helps teams understand their software’s dependencies and the security implications of using them so that they can safely build on and innovate with open source code.