Application Security

This post will explore the top 10 code security platforms to see just how well they secure modern cloud-native applications.

Dynamic code scanning is security testing of a running application that detects runtime vulnerabilities, performance issues, and misconfigurations.

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Arbitrary code execution is when an attacker tricks your system into running their malicious code without permission. Think of it like someone breaking into your house and using your computer to do whatever they want.

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DevSecOps Automation is the practice of embedding automated security controls into every phase of software development and deployment.

Code auditing is the systematic examination of source code to identify security vulnerabilities, bugs, performance issues, and compliance violations.

Swaroop Sham

novembro 20, 2025

This article will start with a quick refresher on SBOMs and then list the top SBOM-generation tools available.

CI/CD security tools automate security checks in development pipelines to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations during code changes, ensuring continuous security.

Ziad Ghalleb

novembro 17, 2025

In this Academy article, we'll dig into SAST and DAST security testing methods, exploring how they work and their core aspects

Ziad Ghalleb

novembro 17, 2025

While DevOps delineates collaboration and automation practices that emphasize infrastructure provisioning and continuous monitoring, GitOps extends its concepts by employing Git as the single source of truth for both application and infrastructure settings.

Swaroop Sham

novembro 17, 2025

Learn how a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) strengthens security by tracking components, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance.

Shift-left security testing moves security testing earlier in the software development lifecycle, significantly reducing remediation costs and time compared to traditional approaches.

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Reachability analysis determines which vulnerabilities in your cloud environment attackers can actually exploit by mapping attack paths from entry points to critical assets

Shift left vs shift right compares two testing approaches: early code prevention and post deployment monitoring to reduce risk and catch bugs.

Open-source software (OSS) software composition analysis (SCA) tools are specialized solutions designed to analyze an application's open-source components and dependencies.

Ziad Ghalleb

novembro 3, 2025

The best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, curated by use case and categorized into CSP-specific and CSP-neutral providers.

In this article, we’ll demystify AWS DevSecOps so that you can make the most of it. Read on to learn why it’s important to adopt; how AWS native services help DevSecOps thrive; and, most importantly, how to combine AWS with DevSecOps best practices for resilient, secure, and reliable infrastructure.

Ziad Ghalleb

outubro 30, 2025

A buffer overflow is a memory corruption vulnerability that allows threat actors to execute malicious code and take control of a program

Ziad Ghalleb

outubro 17, 2025

Learn how SAST improves your environment, how it differs from DAST, and how you can integrate it into your entire DevSecOps approach to cloud security.

Secrets management is the practice of securely storing, controlling access to, and managing digital credentials like passwords, API keys, and certificates.

Discover the top open-source security tools for cloud security. This guide covers the pros and cons and explains how a scanner fits into your security stack.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how you can leverage SAST for code security. We’ll also explore key features of open-source SAST tools, such as language support, integration capabilities, and reporting functionalities.

A memory leak is when a program allocates memory but never releases it back to the system. This means your computer gradually runs out of available memory, like borrowing books from a library but never returning them.

Lauren Place

outubro 10, 2025

SaaS security posture management (SSPM) is a toolset designed to secure SaaS apps by identifying misconfigurations, managing permissions, and ensuring regulatory compliance across your organization’s digital estate.

Application vulnerabilities are security weaknesses in software code, design, or configuration that attackers can exploit to compromise systems or data.

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Lauren Place

setembro 12, 2025

DAST, or dynamic application security testing, is a testing approach that involves testing an application for different runtime vulnerabilities that come up only when the application is fully functional.

Nicolas Ehrman

setembro 11, 2025

Supply chain attacks are cyberattacks where threat actors compromise trusted third-party vendors or software components, using that trust to infiltrate the target organization’s systems and sensitive data.

Allison Jackson

setembro 9, 2025

Server-side request forgery (SSRF) is a high-impact vulnerability where an attacker tricks a server into making requests to internal or restricted resources, potentially exposing APIs, cloud metadata services, and sensitive systems.

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 9, 2025

Static code analysis identifies security vulnerabilities and coding issues without executing the code, improving software quality and security.

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 7, 2025

Learn the foundation of application security posture management (ASPM) and how you can apply it to improve cloud security posture. Plus, tools you can use.

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 5, 2025

Open-source security is the collection of tools and processes used to secure and manage the lifecycle of open-source software (OSS) and dependencies from development to production.

Improve development workflows with shift left security by embedding testing early to catch vulnerabilities and speed delivery.

Ziad Ghalleb

agosto 1, 2025

Snyk is a development security platform that supports risk identification and remediation across the application lifecycle. While it’s a capable tool for developer-centric use cases, there are crucial limitations when it comes to broader cloud security.

Swaroop Sham

julho 22, 2025

Learn what code security is and the challenges of ensuring it in 2025 and beyond. More importantly, discover techniques and best practices to secure your code.

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Ziad Ghalleb

julho 1, 2025

In this article, we’ll explore the step-by-step process of code scanning, its benefits, approaches, and best practices.

Code-to-cloud security protects applications across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), from code all the way to runtime in the cloud.

Nicolas Ehrman

maio 16, 2025

Learn about CI/CD pipeline security best practices to protect your software lifecycle from vulnerabilities and attacks while maintaining development velocity.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at why DevSecOps is a necessity. Then we’ll cover each step of implementation, giving you a comprehensive list of DevSecOps pipeline best practices in 2025.

Let’s take a closer look at CSPM and ASPM to see what protection they offer, key differences, and use cases.

Application risk management (ARM) is a framework for strategically identifying, measuring, prioritizing, and mitigating risks in cloud-native applications.

Learn how DevSecOps integrates security into development, enhances collaboration, and ensures secure software delivery without slowing down workflows.

Swaroop Sham

abril 10, 2025

Master software supply chain security by learning best practices like proactive risk management, real-time monitoring, and more to prevent breaches.

In this blog post, we’ll take a deep dive into software supply chains and discuss effective strategies for reducing security risks.

The MIT License is widely adopted because it provides a straightforward framework with minimal restrictions, allowing free use, modification, and distribution.

AI-assisted software development integrates machine learning and AI-powered tools into your coding workflow to help you build, test, and deploy software without wasting resources.

Remote code execution refers to a security vulnerability through which malicious actors can remotely run code on your systems or servers.

Lauren Place

março 8, 2025

Code review is a software development practice where code is systematically examined to ensure it meets specific goals, including quality and security standards.

Ziad Ghalleb

março 1, 2025

Application security controls are technology-independent collections of policies, procedures, and standards to secure software, devices, users, network, and data.

Ziad Ghalleb

março 1, 2025

Application security testing (AST) is a set of processes designed to detect and address security gaps during the early phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In other words, teams take steps in pre-production to identify and mitigate risks before applications are released into operational environments.

Application security frameworks are essential guidelines, best practices, and tools designed to help organizations stay consistent in their security practices, meet compliance requirements, and effectively manage risks associated with application security.

In this article, we’ll discuss how DevOps teams can take advantage of this framework to create reliable build pipelines and, more generally, secure the entire software development lifecycle.

Malicious code is any software or programming script that exploits software or network vulnerabilities and compromises data integrity.

Software composition analysis (SCA) tools index your software dependencies to give you visibility into the packages you're using and any vulnerabilities they contain.

Ziad Ghalleb

dezembro 6, 2024

Code vulnerabilities are weaknesses in software that attackers can exploit, potentially compromising security.

Nicolas Ehrman

dezembro 2, 2024

20 essential security best practices every DevOps team should start with

Lauren Place

novembro 27, 2024

This article outlines guidelines and best practices for weaving security into every part of your development and DevOps workflows, focusing on practical techniques that are easy to adopt.

Ziad Ghalleb

novembro 27, 2024

Application security refers to the practice of identifying, mitigating, and protecting applications from vulnerabilities and threats throughout their lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, and maintenance.

Ziad Ghalleb

novembro 26, 2024

Secure coding is the practice of developing software that is resistant to security vulnerabilities by applying security best practices, techniques, and tools early in development.

Swaroop Sham

novembro 26, 2024

Explore how IaC security protects cloud environments by embedding protection into code templates to catch vulnerabilities early.

Lauren Place

novembro 22, 2024

Cloud IDEs allow developers to work within a web browser, giving them access to real-time collaboration, seamless version control, and tight integration with other cloud-based apps such as code security or AI code generation assistants.

Swaroop Sham

novembro 8, 2024

Secure SDLC (SSDLC) is a framework for enhancing software security by integrating security designs, tools, and processes across the entire development lifecycle.

IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) is a security testing method that monitors applications in real-time during runtime to detect vulnerabilities by analyzing code behavior and data flow in live environments.

Ziad Ghalleb

outubro 31, 2024

Source code security refers to the practice of protecting and securing the source code of an application from vulnerabilities, threats, and unauthorized access.

Swaroop Sham

outubro 30, 2024

Infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning is the process of analyzing the scripts that automatically provision and configure infrastructure.

Ziad Ghalleb

outubro 28, 2024

SecDevOps is essentially DevOps with an emphasis on moving security further left. DevOps involves both the development team and the operations team in one process to improve deployment performance and service customers faster.

Shaked Rotlevi

outubro 25, 2024

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF), also known as XSRF or session riding, is an attack approach where threat actors trick trusted users of an application into performing unintended actions.

In this blog post, we’ll explore security measures and continuous monitoring strategies to prevent these leaks, mitigating the risks posed by security vulnerabilities, human error, and attacks.

Ziad Ghalleb

outubro 4, 2024

Secrets detection is the process of identifying and managing sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and tokens within codebases to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 20, 2024

The top 14 open-source application security tools—including SCA, secrets scanning, and application security testing tools—to help you streamline the critical process of securing your apps from threats and vulnerabilities.

Nicolas Ehrman

setembro 18, 2024

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open-source, versatile policy engine that facilitates unified and context-aware policy enforcement across various cloud environments.

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 13, 2024

NIST’s Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a structured approach that provides guidelines and best practices for integrating security throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Ziad Ghalleb

setembro 9, 2024

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) analyzes custom source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities, while SCA (Software Composition Analysis) focuses on assessing third-party and open source components for known vulnerabilities and license compliance.

Ziad Ghalleb

agosto 9, 2024

Security as Code (SaC) is a methodology that integrates security measures directly into the software development process. It involves codifying security policies and decisions, and automating security checks, tests, and gates within the DevOps pipeline.

The OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model (DSOMM) is a framework for assessing and improving DevSecOps practices.

Ziad Ghalleb

julho 9, 2024

Policy as code (PaC) is the use of code to define, automate, enforce, and manage the policies that govern the operation of cloud-native environments and their resources.

Swaroop Sham

junho 23, 2024

Secret scanning is the practice of running automated scans on code repositories, execution pipelines, configuration files, commits, and other data sources to prevent potential security threats posed by exposed secrets.

Security by design is a software development approach that aims to establish security as a pillar, not an afterthought, i.e., integrating security controls into software products right from the design phase.

Two major formats dominate the SBOM ecosystem: Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) and CycloneDX (CDX). Let’s review!

Nicolas Ehrman

abril 29, 2024

Common security risks associated with Terraform and the 6 essential best practices for terraform security.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a vulnerability where hackers insert malicious scripts inside web applications with the aim of executing them in a user’s browser.

Swaroop Sham

fevereiro 26, 2024

DevSecOps, which stands for Development, Security, and Operations, is a software development practice that emphasizes integrating security considerations throughout the entire development lifecycle, from initial design to deployment and ongoing maintenance.

Nicolas Ehrman

fevereiro 19, 2024

Microservices security is the practice of protecting individual microservices and their communication channels from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other threats, ensuring a secure overall architecture despite its distributed nature.

In this article, we’ll look at the emergence of DevSecOps and then discuss actionable best practices for integrating DevSecOps into your workflows.