APICheck - The DevSecOps Toolset For REST APIs

APICheck is a complete toolset designed and created for testing REST APIs. Why APICheck APICheck focuses not only in the security testing and hacking use cases. The goal of the project is to become a complete toolset for DevSecOps cycles. The tools are aimed to diverse users profiles: Developers...

Why Every Organization Needs a Vulnerability Management Policy

The importance of information security in the modern business world cannot be overstated. It’s vital for organizations to take a proactive approach to their cybersecurity, including the development of a vulnerability management policy. In this blog post, we will discuss why vulnerability manageme...

Successful DevSecOps begins with a cultural shift

A successful DevSecOps approach fosters cohesive collaboration between Development, Security, and Operations teams for the cultivation of outcomes that improve security while also maintaining the goals of DevOps. Within DevSecOps, security is an additional foundational component in the process...

The Evolution of DevSecOps

The DevOps methodology offers organizations of all sizes from across all industries a framework for delivering value and responsiveness. Instead of traditional distinct development and operations teams, DevOps embraces multidisciplinary teams that use efficient practices that support continuous...

How to Create a Culture of Kick-Ass DevSecOps Engineers

Much like technology itself, the tools, techniques, and optimum processes for developing code evolve quickly. We humans have an insatiable need for more software, more features, more functionality… and we want it faster than ever before, more qualitative, and on top of that: Secure. With an...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to Containers: VMware Acquires Octarine

UPDATE: On May 27, 2020 VMware officially closed its acquisition of Octarine. The blog post below has been amended to reflect that announcement. Today is a very exciting day for VMware and for our customers as we announce our acquisition of Octarine, whose innovative security platform for...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to Containers: VMware Acquires Octarine

UPDATE: On May 27, 2020 VMware officially closed its acquisition of Octarine. The blog post below has been amended to reflect that announcement. Today is a very exciting day for VMware and for our customers as we announce our acquisition of Octarine, whose innovative security platform for...

The Results Are In: Defender Confidence Is On The Rise

Recently, I spent two weeks traveling across Europe talking with defenders, reporters, and leaders of security programs. While each country faces its own unique challenges and has its own needs, there were a few themes that were consistently present. Threat Outlook Report 2020. Naturally, we...

Cloud Misconfig Mistakes Show Need For DevSecOps

Developers have become accustomed to deploying apps in data centers with what could be described as a “crunchy hard outer layer,” to keep their data center secure. But when it comes to the public cloud, “it just doesn’t exist that way,” said Ryan Olson, vice president of threat intelligence with...

Cloud Misconfig Mistakes Show Need For DevSecOps

Developers have become accustomed to deploying apps in data centers with what could be described as a “crunchy hard outer layer,” to keep their data center secure. But when it comes to the public cloud, “it just doesn’t exist that way,” said Ryan Olson, vice president of threat intelligence with...

RiskAssessmentFramework - Static Application Security Testing

The OWASP Risk Assessment Framework consist of Static application security testing and Risk Assessment tools, Eventhough there are many SAST tools available for testers, but the compatibility and the Environement setup process is complex. By using OWASP Risk Assessment Framework's Static...

2020 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch

The wheels of 2020’s biggest cybersecurity threats have already been set motion. Mobile, the cloud and artificial intelligence, to name a few, are trends that will continue to be exploited by criminals. Couple that with the rapid growth of software development and a cybersecurity skills shortage...

4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security

DevSecOps is more than a corporate buzzword. As a combined term, DevSecOps bears out the interdependence of responsibilities that lead to security transformation from a fixed set of inflexible tools into security as a process. The post 4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security appeared first on...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

This Week in Security News: How a Partnership can Advance DevSecOps and Cybersecurity Issues in the Midwest and South U.S.

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how Trend Micro’s partnership with Snyk will advance DevSecOps. Also, read about cyber attacks affecting hospitals in Alabama an...

ThreatList: Human Error is Behind One Quarter of Data Breaches

One quarter of all data breaches last year were caused by human error. The average cost of all breach in the same time period was $3.92 million, a 1.5 percent increase from the year before. Click to enlarge. That’s according to the 14th annual Cost of a Data Breach report from the Ponemon Institu...

Video Training Update, July 2019

The Qualys Training team released a major update to the Vulnerability Management Certified Training Course. We’ve also built out two new video libraries showing how to assess business process risk and how to secure cloud infrastructures in DevSecOps environments using AWS Golden AMI pipelines. An...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #1

Black Hat USA 2019 offers a packed and impressive lineup of research briefings and hands-on training courses for the 19,000-plus security pros expected to attend this year’s event. The training sessions provide both offensive and defensive skills that security pros can use to tackle critical...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...