Across the board, industries are undergoing immense digital transformation, with many digital-first organisations driving this revolution. An example of this across the EU, is the Open Banking Directive (PSD2) which has opened up sensitive data to third parties.
The continued rise and the heavy reliance on APIs globally have exponentially increased the attack surface.
This transformation is driven by developers, who are shipping new software and features continuously and at an unprecedented velocity and speed. This results in security vulnerabilities being introduced in the same increased velocity and volume, resulting in organisations being faced with unprecedented levels of exposure and risk across their applications and APIs.
We all know it’s imperative the sensitive data clients entrust is protected from the constant threat of cyber attacks and data breach attempts by cyber criminals. Data breaches can lead to financial and reputation loss as well as regulatory penalties.
The ability to scale security testing and truly reduce your risk exposure is directly linked to your ability to eliminate these manual processes and empower developers to identify and resolve the real vulnerabilities applications and APIs will have in production.
Traditionally, application security testing, especially Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), was implemented during the later phases of the development pipeline (Testing, or Release/Deployment). Legacy DAST solutions were built for security professionals, more commonly used by internal security teams, or via third parties on a periodic basis to complement their manual testing.
It’s imperative to develop securely from the start, by enabling developers to identify and fix security defects much earlier in the SDLC. This is known as Shift Left security.
This level of security testing automation is no longer seen as merely a need, but a must-have and soon-to-be-mandated requirement, particularly for the banking, financial services and insurance sectors.
Shifting left is imperative to achieve a best-in-class methodology and process for building secure software at scale.
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Digital transformation is different in every organisation, but a key contingent involves the business implementing new strategies around how they deploy technology and the security required to keep business assets safe
Application security testing can be categorized into three types: black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing.
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Continuing our evaluation of legacy DAST vs Modern DAST, we’ve taken a light-hearted look at the operational and process challenges experienced by DevOps, Cybersecurity teams and QA when preparing Apps for release to the wild
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