application security program
Checkmarx Research: A Race Condition in Kubernetes
Last year, the Checkmarx Security Research Team decided to investigate Kubernetes due to the growing usage of it worldwide. For those who are not too familiar with this technology, you can find ...
Correlating and Remediating Security Risks at Scale is Vital to DevOps
The recent industry shift towards DevOps makes it clear that organizations are adopting this development and operational model to facilitate the practice of automating software delivery and deployment. As a result, organizations ...
Software Architecture with Shortest Time-to-Market Consideration
Survival of the Fastest Today, everything is getting faster. With social media and our smartphones, we expect immediate responses to our messages. When searching for the answer to a question, the internet ...
Checkmarx Research: Solidity and Smart Contracts from a Security Standpoint
This research was provided by Paulo Silva and Guillaume Lopes, who are members of the Checkmarx Security Research Team. Quoting the official documentation, Solidity “is a contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart ...
Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10 (Part 2)
Due to the widespread usage of APIs, and the fact that attackers realize APIs are a new attack frontier, the OWASP API Security Top 10 Project was launched. From the beginning, the ...
2019 – Checkmarx Research Roundup
Discovering vulnerabilities like the ones mentioned below is why the Checkmarx Security Research team performs investigations. This type of research activity is part of their ongoing efforts to drive the necessary changes ...
Twas the Night of the Go-Live
Twas the night of the Go-Live, and all through the team, We were nervous as ever, at least it would seem. We thought we had done, everything that was right, We were ...
Raising Your Software Security Programs to the “STAR” Level
In sporting events, movies, and TV entertainment, we often have STAR athletes and STAR actors/actresses. When going to school, most students strive for an A* (STAR) grade on their assignments, tests, and ...
The One Thing Necessary for a Healthy AppSec Program
Jack Palance had the right idea in City Slickers. “Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing, just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean ...