Remove Firewall Remove Open Source Remove Security Remove Tools
article thumbnail

What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

Shift-left security” is the concept that security measures, focus areas, and implications should occur further to the left—or earlier—in the lifecycle than the typical phases that used to be entry points for security testing and protections. How did the term shift-left security originate? This creates risks.

article thumbnail

If You’re Only Doing WAF, You’re Doing API Security Wrong

ForAllSecure

In the rush to comply with various standards, such as addressing the OWASP Top 10 API , companies are looking at API security with renewed interest. Some organizations have begun using Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) to protect their APIs, but this isn’t a true solution to API security. Are WAFs Enough for API Security?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Nmap security scanner gets new scripts, performance boosts

Network World

The Nmap Project just released the Holiday Edition of its open source cross-platform security scanner and network mapper, with several important improvements and bug fixes. Give yourself a technology career advantage with InfoWorld's Deep Dive technology reports and Computerworld's career trends reports.

article thumbnail

The AI continuum

CIO Business Intelligence

The price-performance value of consuming AI via the tools you already use is hard to beat. Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware.

Dell 112
article thumbnail

Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

In reality, their perceived lower level of security makes them attractive targets to malicious actors. Additionally, nonprofits must be aware of the risks posed by inadequate security in third-party services they use, such as fundraising platforms and email services.

article thumbnail

Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The attackers then mishandle this well-known adversary simulation tool to harvest information about the operating system, exfiltrate data, and locate directories and services with weak access control settings. These security checks often fail to identify black hat schemes, though.

article thumbnail

Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.