Netsparker Announces New Application & Websites Discovery Service
Today, we announce a new Netsparker feature, the Netsparker Radar – Application & Service Discovery Service. This feature can both discover and catalog the websites or web applications that your business has online, including those you may have forgotten. This will help you ensure that you have better security coverage ... Read More
Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests – What’s the Difference?
Confusion between the terms 'penetration testing' and 'vulnerability assessments' often begins at the level of language. Those who are not full-time professionals in web security, such as journalists reporting on a big story that affects consumers, use the terms interchangeably, as if referring to the same process. Experienced professionals in ... Read More
Ferruh Explains Why Web Application Security Automation is a Must in Enterprises
Ferruh Mavituna, Founder and CEO of Netsparker, was interviewed by Paul Asadoorian for Enterprise Security Weekly #98. They talked about the differences between penetration testing versus automatic, dynamic scanning, how to balance both approaches and why there is a need to automate web application security in enterprises. During the show, ... Read More
Introducing the Same-origin Policy Whitepaper
Same-origin Policy (SOP) is a set of restrictions originally implemented by Netscape developers to help securely manage the relationships and connections between web resources such as HTML documents and other content, APIs and cookies. It enabled each resource to be defined by a string containing the protocol, URL and port ... Read More
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
What Happened with Cambridge Analytica? When it was revealed that a company connected to President Trump's 2016 campaign, Cambridge Analytica (CA), had been able to access data from 50 million Facebook accounts, and that Facebook had suspended their (and SCL's) accounts, you may have noticed one of three things, depending ... Read More
