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Forward Security is now an AWS Select Consulting Partner
Forward Security Inc., a North American company with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Austin, TX specializing in application & cloud security consulting, is proud to announce that it has earned the Select tier Consulting Partner designation from Amazon Web...
Security Implications of AI-assisted Coding
GitHub quietly announced the technical preview for their new Copilot feature recently. Copilot is an AI-assisted pair programming tool that can be used in VS Code or in a GitHub codespace. The tool uses a machine learning model based on all public GitHub source code,...
The Importance of “Baking” Security Into Your Applications
H istorically, security has been enforced outside of the application, particularly at the edge of the network where traffic flows across trusted and untrusted network segments. This is accomplished by using various tools such as network or application specific...
SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, RASP: What They Are and How You Can Automate Application Security
A pplication security is an ongoing challenge throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC). Today, more and more development teams are shifting to Agile and DevOps SDLCs to rapidly build application to meet the rising demands from the business and...
Biden’s Executive Order Impact on Application & Cloud Security
P resident Joe Biden’s new executive order takes important steps to bringing awareness to security for organizations when developing software. With 52% of breaches caused by malicious attacks against applications in 2020, the changes mentioned in the executive order...
Why ASVS Is The Gold Standard For Application Security
According to Contrast Security’s 2020 Application Security Observation Report, 96% of web apps have at least one vulnerability, and 26% of those are serious. The continued proliferation of application vulnerabilities confirms that development teams are not certain...
Securing Modern API and Microservices-Based Apps by Design – Part 2
Combine existing security concepts and best practices together and design more secure distributed applications. Introduction Part 1 of this two-part series discussed what services and microservices are, the role of APIs...
Securing Modern API and Microservices-Based Apps by Design – Part 1
Combine existing security concepts and best practices together and design more secure distributed applications. Introduction A common approach to modernizing applications is to use APIs and decompose them into smaller...
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