Application Security News and Articles


The silent killers in digital healthcare

As digital transformation revolutionizes the healthcare industry, its use of API (application programming interfaces) technology is skyrocketing. APIs, which help users and apps interact and exchange information, are essential tools for ...

Securing the rapidly developing edge ecosystem

In this Help Net Security video interview, Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism at AT&T Business, discusses the 12th annual Cybersecurity Insights Report, released at RSA Conference 2023. This comprehensive survey aims to ...

Rethinking the effectiveness of current authentication initiatives

As user credentials continue to be a top vector for cyberattacks, organizations are under tremendous pressure to rethink the effectiveness of current authentication initiatives, according to SecureAuth. Additionally, cyber insurance carriers are ...

The double-edged sword of open-source software

The lack of visibility into the software supply chain creates an unsustainable cycle of discovering vulnerabilities and weaknesses in software and IT systems, overwhelming organizations, according to Lineaje. Diversity and complexity of the ...

SentinelOne unveils cybersecurity AI platform

Cybercriminals around the world are using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to execute malicious attacks that can take down companies and governments. SentinelOne plans to use the same technologies to defeat them. The company has unveiled a ...

Obsidian Security Wins Top Honor At Global InfoSec Awards

Obsidian Security is proud to be recognized as the Best SaaS/Cloud Security solution by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine, during RSA Conference 2023.  The Global InfoSec Awards, ...

National Cybersecurity Alliance launches HBCU Scholarship Program

The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) launched their Historically Black Colleges and Universities Scholarship Program. Established in partnership with One In Tech, an ISACA Foundation, the initiative will provide support to individuals who ...

A Big Week at RSA – Hot Company in API Security, API Defenders on the Show Floor

With warm and sunny weather expected all week, a bunch of the Salt team is thrilled to be at RSA in San Francisco! We’ll get the chance to talk with security leaders about why API security has become a priority project, and we’ll get time to ...

Noname Security Aligns With Intel on API Security

Noname Security announced today it is working with Intel to offload application programming interface (API) security to network integration cards (NICs) based on 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Intel NetSec Accelerator Reference ...

The Impact of Security Testing on an Organization

  The post The Impact of Security Testing on an Organization appeared first on Security Boulevard.

The Force of Zero Trust

May 4th, 2023 On-Line Event You may associate Zero Trust with the Dark Side. One could perceive Zero Trust as a term used by the imperial empire to describe many different aspects of a security program. No fear, the Eclypsium rebels are here to ...

Identity modernization for customer-facing applications

Want to loan a friend some money? There’s an app for that. Want to exchange some dollars for Euros? There’s an app for that. In fact, the number of mobile apps that let consumers complete financial tasks that used to require a big financial ...

Why are private equity firms acquiring so many identity management companies?

There’s a landrush in the identity management space, which has important implications for enterprises that rely on these systems to run their business applications.  Private equity firms (PE) are picking up Identity and Access Management (IAM) ...

Torq Unveils Hyperautomation Security Platform Infused With GPT

Torq, today at the RSA 2023 conference, launched a hyperautomation platform for automating cybersecurity workflows and processes that includes an analytics capability enabled by a generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability. Torq ...

The CISO’s Ultimate Budget Retention Playbook for 2023

This comprehensive resource guide was compiled for cybersecurity leaders who want to secure or improve their budgets through the rest of this year and next. The post The CISO’s Ultimate Budget Retention Playbook for 2023 appeared first on ...

Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) Best Practice – Focus on Impact, Not Volume

How to do CWP right to prepare your organization and protect it from the next widespread vulnerability The post Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) Best Practice – Focus on Impact, Not Volume appeared first on Ermetic. The post Cloud Workload ...

USENIX Security ’22 – ‘ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models’

Complete Title: 'USENIX Security ’22 - Yugeng Liu, Rui Wen, Xinlei He, Ahmed Salem, Zhikun Zhang, Michael Backes, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Mario Fritz, Yang Zhang - ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine ...

Investors Place Early $4 Million Bet on Stack Identity 

Silicon Valley startup emerges from stealth with $4 million in seed-stage funding and ambitious plans to disrupt the IAM governance market. The post Investors Place Early $4 Million Bet on Stack Identity  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Salt Security Applies Additional AI Capabilities to API Security

Salt Security has infused additional artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that should make it simpler to both discover APIs and triage levels of threat. Nick Rago, field CTO for Salt Security, ...

Improving software supply chain security for cloud applications and workloads

You should consider the following tips, tricks and best practices to help improve your supply chain security in the cloud. The post Improving software supply chain security for cloud applications and workloads appeared first on Security Boulevard.