RESTful applications are becoming increasingly popular in modern software development due to their flexibility and scalability. However, with these applications’ growing complexity and size, ensuring their security has become a significant challenge for developers and security professionals. To ensure the security of RESTful applications, security professionals often perform manual testing and analysis. However, this method can take considerable time and is prone to errors. Many organizations are turning to automation to help secure their RESTful applications and address these shortcomings. Au ..read more

In our fast-paced and intensely competitive software development market, DevOps has emerged as a game changer.  DevOps is a strategy that automates the software development and delivery process. This allows enterprises to release software more rapidly and efficiently. Yet, given the continuous and iterative nature of DevOps, security is a critical component that requires the highest attention. Understanding this, a flaw in the DevOps pipeline can have disastrous consequences for the firm and its clients. One key way of securing the DevOps pipeline is through the use of secure source code ..read more

This post was previously published on The New Stack You’ve secured your cloud identities. You’ve hardened your cloud security posture. You’ve configured strong cloud access controls. But there’s still one more thing you need in order to secure your cloud environment: a cloud workload protection platform, or CWPP. Cloud workload protection platforms secure the workloads that run on your cloud — which are distinct from the infrastructure, user identities and configurations that form the foundation of your cloud environment. This article unpacks why a CWPP is a critical ingred ..read more

When you store or process any kind of data in the cloud, you face certain security risks that would not exist in an on-premises environment. However, workloads that involve regulated healthcare data (which is known under the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, as Protected Health Information, or PHI) are especially sensitive, given the highly personal nature of healthcare information and the special compliance rules that govern it. This article offers a primer on cloud native security for healthcare organizations, explaining you need to know about cloud ..read more

As application modernization sweeps across the enterprise, executives and technology leaders are grappling with questions about how to manage legacy and modern applications side-by-side. Legacy applications are not going away anytime soon. Organizations need to manage and monitor these applications as effectively as their modern counterparts. In this post, we discuss the importance of monitoring legacy applications and some guidelines for implementing it. Differences Between Legacy & Modern App Architecture   Before we talk about monitoring legacy applications, it helps to define the ..read more