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In 2018, the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities sent shockwaves through the tech industry. These hardware flaws allowed attackers to steal sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys from computers, smartphones, and cloud servers. Now, in 2023, history is unfortunately repeating itself. A new exploit called Zenbleed has emerged, taking advantage of similar speculative execution processes in AMD’s Zen architecture chips.

In our first year participating in the Forrester Wave™: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Q3 2023, we’re thrilled that Snyk has been recognized as a Strong Performer in a mature, yet evolving, enterprise software security category. Snyk is disrupting the SAST market with a developer-first approach to application security, illustrated by our position in strategy and market presence in the evaluation.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, software developers face many challenges as they work tirelessly to create and maintain applications that power our daily lives. The recent Log4Shell vulnerability, which exposed a critical flaw in the widely used Log4j library, has drawn widespread attention and criticism.

DevSecOps is all about collaboration: facilitating a solid partnership between development and security teams. However, these collaboration efforts won’t succeed without help from leadership. Development and security teams need top-down support to set measurable goals, create a secure CI/CD pipeline, and establish a DevSecOps culture. Three experts came together at Black Hat Asia 2023 to discuss how leadership can participate in fostering security success.

Welcome to the 9th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.