Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

With the rapid expansion in both scale and variety of technologies in modern business systems, there comes a need to further secure those technologies to prevent nefarious actors from causing havoc. The expanding data landscape creates a much larger attack surface for bad actors to exploit, and as a result leaves many organizations at risk from theft, fraud or other undesirable behavior.

Threat actors will always target the things most important to businesses, and today, that means applications–the lifeblood of the global economy. As the recent Mend Open Source Risk Report reveals, the ongoing rise in open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks presents significant business risk. The number of open source vulnerabilities are growing, just as threat actors are launching increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Netskope has just published the Monthly Threat Report for February, with this month’s report focused on what is going on in Europe. I don’t intend to summarise the report in this blog, instead I want to zoom in and study a continuing trend that was highlighted in there; one that is unfortunately heading in the wrong direction.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools present a significant opportunity for organizations looking to reduce application security risk. However, not all workflows or tools are created equal. Using the right SAST tools at the right times, you can seamlessly integrate and scale security workflows throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Last month, we hosted a webinar with our CISO, Karim Beldjilali, who was formerly the CISO of Rightway a healthcare startup. Karim shared important security lessons for healthcare organizations leveraging cloud applications across their workforce. We briefly share the highlights below.