Five Reasons Standalone Vulnerability Scanning Isn’t Enough in 2025
Vulnerability scanning has long been a staple of cybersecurity programs, but relying on it as your primary defense against threat actors is a risky oversimplification. While scanning tools detect known weaknesses, they often fail to differentiate between theoretical risks and real-world threats. They don’t tell you which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable, how attackers would target […]
OX Security: Empowering Executives with Actionable AppSec Insights
Application security posture management (ASPM) is no longer just a technical concern; it’s a critical business imperative. But how do you get executives, who are often focused on the bottom line, to truly grasp the importance of AppSec and invest in its success? The answer lies in clear, concise, and compelling executive reporting. OX Security […]
AppSec Tools: What They Do & How to Pick the Right One
What is AppSec? Application Security (AppSec), the process of protecting applications against malicious compromise, has become a critical factor in modern application development and deployment. Cyber attackers and their methods are evolving along with technology, and their attacks are becoming more sophisticated and more prevalent. In 2024 the average cost of a data breach was […]
Application Security Testing: The Ultimate Guide to Modern AST Platforms and Practices
What is Application Security Testing? Application security testing (AST) is the process of identifying, managing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities in software applications. The goal of application security testing is to address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by cyber criminals. Using application security testing tools to find flaws early in the software development life cycle […]
SDLC Security: Everything You Need to Know
A Secure software development lifecycle bakes security into applications from the get-go, driving everything from better quality software to cost savings. Here’s what you need to know. The Evolution of the SDLC Security In the early days of software development, security was often an afterthought. Indeed, until the 1950s and 1960s, software development was largely […]
Everything You Need to Know About Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
What is Software Composition Analysis (SCA)? Software composition analysis (SCA) plays a pivotal role in application security. It detects and manages known vulnerabilities and licensing issues across the entire open-source and third-party supply chain. It does this by scanning the source code of an application, analyzing the software components used in the software development process, […]
Application Vulnerability Management: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
You can’t plug every gap, but application vulnerability management is here to ensure you don’t miss anything that matters. If application security sometimes feels like bringing a knife to a gunfight, it’s understandable: The average team monitors 129 applications, and over 118,000 alerts. When resources are tight, many organizations focus on the top 5% of […]
AppSec: Safeguard Your Applications at Every Stage
Managing AppSec risks in today’s accelerated development process is difficult. Here’s what you can do about it. It’s been twenty-five years since Microsoft engineers first coined the term “cross-site scripting” (XSS). Since then, the vulnerability has consistently been featured in the OWASP Top 10 of security risks in web applications. It’s in “good” company: all […]
Automate Security, Accelerate Development: The SCA Advantage
Today’s software supply chain is an expanding attack surface with vulnerabilities at the core. Here’s how software composition analysis tools can help you identify and mitigate the risks before they become a problem. In today’s accelerated software development environment, the reuse of open-source components and third-party code has brought many benefits, but it has also […]
Seven Things to Look for in an ASPM Solution
Traditional AppSec tools can’t provide the code-to-cloud visibility and manageability today’s AppSec teams need to keep up with a radically transformed SDLC. Enter Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)… Here’s what you need to know, and seven critical things to look for in a solution. The average security team now monitors 129 applications and up to […]
SAST vs SCA: Security Tools That are Better Together
Every line of code has the potential to be a security vulnerability. SAST and SCA tools help integrate security into the software development process and improve organizations’ security posture. Here’s how SAST and SCA tools work together – and why you need them. Few software applications today are developed from scratch; in our world of […]
Why You Need to Pay More Attention to Software Supply Chain Attacks
The cybersecurity threat landscape has evolved rapidly, and one area that demands increased attention is software supply chain compromise. Looking back at Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), we can see a 68% year-over-year increase in breaches linked to supply chain interconnections. Not only is the uptick staggering, but 15% of breaches analyzed for […]
Context is king: what the next generation of AppSec tools is learning from SIEM
Success breeds…confusion? AppSec teams face an average of 118,000 vulnerability alerts across their software supply chain. If even 1% of those are being exploited in the wild, finding – and triaging – them in a sea of noise is difficult at best. Throw in multiple tools – on average, security teams need to monitor 129 […]
What to Consider When Choosing a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Tool
Given the widespread use of third-party components in application development, identifying and remediating code vulnerabilities as early in development as possible is critical. As a result, many organizations turn to SCA tools, however traditional ones often deliver superficial code analysis that floods developers with irrelevant or non-actionable alerts, including numerous false positives. As you search […]
From Alert Fatigue to Actionable Insights: How SCA Fits Into Active ASPM
Using third-party components in application development has become a norm rather than an exception. While boosting efficiency and innovation, this trend also opens up a Pandora’s box of security vulnerabilities that adversaries can exploit. The challenge of identifying and remediating these vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development process is paramount. Yet, many Software […]