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What Are Security Guardrails? Why Do They Matter to Your AppSec Program?

SecureWorld News

The wide adoption of cloud-native applications and infrastructure has propelled DevOps and a self-service culture enabling developers to go from code to cloud in hours. Security teams are entirely unprepared to govern and secure the modern SDLC in this agile world.

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Can Application Security Testing Be Fixed?

ForAllSecure

Shoenfield -- Author, Passionate Security Architect, and Curious Questioner of Assumptions -- challenged whether application security can be fixed at FuzzCon 2021. “We keep applying the same, tired, and often simplistic solutions to this thorny, complex, multi-dimensional problem that we call application security,” he said. .

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Shifting security left in your SDLC program is a priority that executives should be giving their focus to.

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5 Ways to Prevent Secret Sprawl

SecureWorld News

In the software development life cycle (SDLC), 85% of leaking secrets come from developers sharing information on public personal accounts. This goes to show just how important it is to have the proper training, procedures, and tools in place when it comes to combatting secret sprawl and leaks in your SDLC. Use short-lived credentials.

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Why Fuzz Testing Is Indispensable: Billy Rios

ForAllSecure

I recently spoke to Gartner on the addition of fuzz testing to their Critical Capabilities for the Application Security Testing Magic Quadrant. In that conversation, one analyst shared that companies that implement fuzz testing programs never rip them out. They’re just too valuable. Takakura: Does fuzzing matter? This is key.

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How to make your developer organization more efficient

CIO Business Intelligence

Streamlining development through tools, knowledge, community DevWorx is a program that simplifies the developer experience, streamlines work, and frees up time to innovate. If there’s a code structure that has to be reused every time you’re creating an application, that structure can be standardized as a template,” said Stoyko.

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Challenging ROI Myths Of Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

ForAllSecure

SAST does not use the actual executable/binary for analysis; it typically uses a representation of your program. And it will find defects in paths that the program would never actually implement in a live system. Download: The Buyer's Guide to Application Security Testing. Why is this important? Another approach is required.