A new report highlighted in Security Boulevard,  is showing a 51 percent increase in attacks on web applications hosted by healthcare providers during December 2020, the timing of which coincides with the initial distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The post Attacks on Healthcare Applications Increased in December 2020 appeared first on ... Read More

When talking about application security, financial institutions are typically at the top of the list that have the biggest concern around the security of their web applications.  So should be no surprise to see a recent article in Finextra, talking about banks increasing their focus on application security. . The post ... Read More

If you're looking for a direction to head with your application security efforts, TechBeacon recently ran an article on five key application security trends for 2021.  With the increasing focus on application security, maybe it's time to take a look at how your organization handles application security both during code ... Read More

Recent reports have shown applications are making it to production with more vulnerabilities than ever, and attacks on web applications have doubled in the most recent year.  It's really time to change how we think about application security, how we protect our applications, and how we detect attacks. The post ... Read More

If you're looking for more information on the latest update to the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies) Security and Privacy Framework outlined in SP800-53, there's a new article just published in the Cutter Business Technology Journal detailing the changes, the timing and an explanation of the new technologies ... Read More

A Ponemon study released in 2019 showed that satisfaction with WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) is at 40 percent, and effectiveness of WAFs rated at only 43 percent. The post Satisfaction With WAFs at Only 40 Percent appeared first on K2io ... Read More

The final numbers for reported vulnerabilities in 2020 are published.  We covered the news when the number of vulnerabilities recorded hit a record for the fourth year in a row.  The US-CERT Vulnerability Database keeps track of new vulnerabilities in production code as they are discovered and assigns each unique ... Read More

If you're new to web application security and you're looking for a primer to get yourself educated, there's a recent article published by the EC Council that covers the basics of what web applications are, why web application security is important. The post What is Web Application Security and Why ... Read More

Back in June of 2020 we wrote about Forrester's new 2020 State of Application Security report.  Back then we focused on the finding that application vulnerabilities were the weakest link in application security.  In this post, we'll talk about the finding that 35% of all external attacks on organizations occurred ... Read More

Analytics Insight ran a recent article on the "Ten ways to ensure web application security," a good reminder that there are many steps an organization can take to ensure security for their web applications in the face of larger numbers of attacks and increasingly sophisticated attacks The post Ten Ways ... Read More