What is CNAPP, and what does it mean to developers?
Thanks to Agile software development, your applications’ attack surface now sprawls across your cloud and your applications, making it more gnarly than ever. Securing that attack surface has become a nightmare steeped in a bowl of migraine. ... Read More
Securing Kafka in Modern Application Environments | Identify Apache Kafka Security Vulnerabilities | Contrast Security
Apache Kafka is one of the most popular platforms for real-time data processing and efficient communication between distributed systems. According to enlyft there are approximately 50,192 companies that use Apache and the number has proliferated rapidly. Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn and was built for website activity tracking, ... Read More
Why API security testing is crucial | Contrast Security
Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow businesses to package their internal resources and make them accessible in well-defined infrastructures. External-facing APIs make it possible for businesses to adopt the inverted firm model that has defined the success of every modern tech giant and countless smaller platform businesses ... Read More
What are message queues? | Importance, use cases and vulnerabilities | Contrast Security
Many significant concerns arise while developing modern-day applications in the cloud, including uptime, geographic distribution and scalability. Adopting application architectures based on event-driven microservices helps resolve these concerns and enables us to scale different services independently. However, event-based microservices present significant challenges, including communication between these services ... Read More
Drupal security challenges faced by developers | Contrast Security
Drupal is a PHP-based, fully accessible web content management system (CMS) offered under the terms of the General Public License. A minimum 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide and 1.2% of the top 10 million websites — ranging from personal blogs to business, political and government sites — use ... Read More
How to configure a Python agent with Contrast in five minutes | Contrast Security
These days, it’s not enough to scan your code for vulnerabilities before deploying it. You also must implement runtime security and counter live threats that predeployment testing may have missed. Contrast Security gives you the tools you need to do these things. We provide agents for multiple languages and frameworks ... Read More
Contrast Assess is a select product for IAST in IDC’s TechBrief
Contrast Security today has been included as a select product for Interactive Application Security Testing in the IDC TechBrief, Interactive Application Security Testing, (doc #US49376522, July 2022). According to the IDC Tech Brief, “Contrast Security is a pioneer in the IAST space. Assess is an organically developed IAST solution with ... Read More
