Application Security News and Articles


GDPR Data Mapping: What it is and How to Comply?

In 2016, the European Commission replaced its long-existing Data Protection Directive with a modernized version, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is based on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which considers personal ...

Important Features of a Digital Risk Protection Service

What is Digital Risk? Digital risk is the term for the negative effects that result from implementing new digital technology. Strong benefits of digital technology, such as improved customer experience, increased connectivity, lower costs, and ...

Exploring the persistent threat of cyberattacks on healthcare

In this Help Net Security interview, Brett Harris, Cybersecurity Officer for the Americas at Siemens Healthineers, discusses the long-term impacts of cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and what healthcare providers can do to protect ...

How hardening Microsoft 365 tenants mitigates potential cloud attacks

Moving critical data and workloads to the cloud has significantly changed information security teams. But most don’t have the resources to be successful in their cloud attack modeling—not to mention the deployment of measurable controls to ...

Security Podcasting, Hacking Stories, and The State of Firmware Security with Paul Asadoorian

Paul Asadoorian, OG security podcaster and host of the popular Paul’s Security Weekly podcast, joins us in this episode to talk about his career as one of the original security podcasters. Paul’s been podcasting for more then 17 years! Paul ...

5 free online cybersecurity courses you should check out

Cryptography In this course, you’ll learn how to protect information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, and non-repudiation. You will develop a basic understanding of cryptographic concepts and how to apply them, ...

Uncovering attacker tactics through cloud honeypots

Attackers typically find exposed “secrets” – pieces of sensitive information that allow access to an enterprise cloud environment — in as little as two minutes and, in many cases, begin exploiting them almost instantly, highlighting ...

Discovering Code Vulnerabilities Prior Deployment: A Proactive/Prevalent Approach ( SAST & DAST )

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BSidesSF 2023 – Margaret Fero – Backup Plans For Your Backup Plans For Your Backup Plans

Our thanks to BSidesSF for publishing their presenter’s superlative BSidesSF 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesSF 2023 – Margaret Fero – Backup Plans For Your Backup Plans For Your ...

Strengthening Cyber Partnerships: An Interview With the N.J. CISO

Michael Geraghty, the director of cybersecurity and chief information security officer for the state of New Jersey, shares information on cyber operations, partnerships and more. The post Strengthening Cyber Partnerships: An Interview With the ...

Week in review: Microsoft confirms DDoS attacks on M365 and Azure Portal, Infosecurity Europe 2023

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unraveling the multifaceted threats facing telecom companies In this Help Net Security interview, Georgia Bafoutsou, Cybersecurity Officer at ...

BSidesSF 2023 – Sam Manzer, Mike Parowski – The Best Defense Is A Great Offense: Leveraging Automated OffSec To Build Proactive C2 Detections

Our thanks to BSidesSF for publishing their presenter’s superlative BSidesSF 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesSF 2023 – Sam Manzer, Mike Parowski – The Best Defense Is A Great Offense: ...

Avoid The Hack: 3 Best Privacy Browsers Picks for iOS

This post was originally published on 2 APR 2021; it has since been updated and revised. Unfortunately, it's difficult - if not impossible - to delete Safari on a regular iPhone. However, with iOS 14 and later, users are free to change the ...

Avoid The Hack: 3 Best Privacy Browser Picks for Android

This post was originally published on 14 APR 2021; it has since been updated and revised. Most Android phones come from the factory with Google Chrome installed. As you're more than likely aware, Google Chrome is highly detrimental to your online ...

CISOs Increasingly Concerned About Mobile Threats

A new warning from Verizon about the rise of smishing, spam text messages and text scams and the FBI reporting $10.3 billion in internet fraud last year, CISOs are increasingly concerned about mobile threats targeting employees and the impact to ...

The Top Challenges for MSSPs

The post The Top Challenges for MSSPs appeared first on Low-Code Security Automation & SOAR Platform | Swimlane. The post The Top Challenges for MSSPs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Your Shopping List for Security & Privacy Program Essentials

Whether your org is about to begin its journey for SOC 2, or you’re planning to wrangle up more standards (think ISO 27001, CMMC, and HIPAA, to name a few), the set of tools and software you have in place can be make-or-break. We asked our ...

A look into the file-transfer attack (and how to protect your data)

A discussion of recent Fortra, Accellion, and Progress Software file transfer attacks and the security measures that could be used to prevent them. The post A look into the file-transfer attack (and how to protect your data) appeared first on ...

Why Evermore Resort Loves Coro Cybersecurity

As is the nature of a cybersecurity blog, we spend a lot of time talking about ourselves.  But all that really matters is what our users think about our product. We sat down with the IT department of Evermore Resort to hear about their ...

BSidesSF 2023 – Tanya Simms, Lauryn Williams – Space And Cyberspace At The White House

Our thanks to BSidesSF for publishing their presenter’s superlative BSidesSF 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesSF 2023 – Tanya Simms, Lauryn Williams – Space And Cyberspace At The White ...