Applications
The latest security technology and best practices to secure software applications, vulnerabilities and code.
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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software
Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. Their main purpose is to protect applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and malicious attacks. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial…
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What is Confidential Computing? Definition, Benefits, & Uses
Confidential computing is an emerging technology that helps protect data while it is being processed. Learn how it works and explore the benefits of using it.
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What Is a Passkey? The Future of Passwordless Authentication
Passkeys are revolutionizing the way we log in to apps and websites. Learn how they work and their benefits now.
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Google Launches Passkeys in Major Push for Passwordless Authentication
Passkeys are a promising technology for passwordless authentication, and Google is leading the way.
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Automated Patch Management: Definition, Tools & How It Works
Learn how automated patch management works, best practices, the top tools, and how automated patching can help improve network security.
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Patch Management vs Vulnerability Management: What’s the Difference?
Learn about the similarities and differences between patch and vulnerability management and what to look for in a solution.
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24 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools
Open-source penetration testing tools are freely available software that help pentest teams identify areas of weakness in their systems. Teams often need a variety of tools to perform a full penetration test, so using the wide range of open-source pentesting tools helps them keep their costs down. And many pentesters are already familiar with well…
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How to Use Input Sanitization to Prevent Web Attacks
Despite all of our investments in security tools, the codebase can be the weakest link for any organization’s cybersecurity. Sanitizing and validating inputs is usually the first layer of defense. Attackers have been using classic flaws for years with a pretty high success rate. While advanced threat actors have more sophisticated approaches such as adversarial…
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AI Coding: A Security Problem?
Andrej Karpathy is a former research scientist and founding member of OpenAI. He was also the senior director of AI at Tesla. Lately, he has been using Copilot, which leverages GPT-3 to generate code. He tweeted this about it: “Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it’s hard…
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What is Virtual Patching and How Does It Work?
Virtual patching uses policies, rules and security tools to block access to a vulnerability until it can be patched. Zero-day threats and legacy systems are two ways that vulnerabilities can be created for which no patch may exist for some time, if ever. In those cases, security teams can block a potential attack path until…
