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The latest News and Information on Application Security including monitoring, testing, and open source.

Leveraging Security Asset Inventories

Asset inventories enable you to know what you have to secure, and to monitor it for deviations. The pace of iteration in the world of software engineering makes those platforms inevitable. In this episode we welcome Sacha Faust, director of security engineering at Grammarly, who built Cartography, one of the first open source asset inventory. Sacha describes what led them to building this (funnily: an offensive use case!), how inventories enable spreading ownership to software teams, the solution that exist off the shelf today, …

Cloud Security: Turns Out We Needed Another Acronym (CNAPP)

Gartner’s 2023 “Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms” (CNAPP) caused some security leaders to question whether they need yet another tool to protect the complex beast that is the cloud. Procuring yet another shiny security product is probably not how you earn the envy of your peers, but if your organization relies on shipping secure applications fast, then CNAPP should be on your radar. What exactly is CNAPP?

Application Vulnerability Management demo

Application Vulnerability Management provides continuous, real-time vulnerability detection across applications in production. See how you can use Application Vulnerability Management to identify, prioritize, and resolve high-impact vulnerabilities exposed in production, without any performance overhead.

Risk Management is a Team Sport with Emilio Escobar

Datadog's Chief Information Security Officer, Emilio Escobar, discusses how organizations are reducing silos between devops and security teams in order to effectively manage security risks. In order to provide secure defaults, decentralized security, and rapid response to security events with deep context, Datadog embeds security at all different levels and scales its program by utilizing security ambassadors and engineers.

Threat modeling with Datadog Application Security Management

Threat modeling is a critical part of building high-performing, secure systems. It is responsible for “analyzing representations of a system to highlight concerns about security and privacy characteristics.”1 Creating an effective threat model involves two main steps: system modeling to map out all existing system components and the relationships between them, and threat elicitation to identify areas in the system that could be vulnerable to a security issue.

Enhance corporate application security with AWS Verified Access and Datadog

AWS Verified Access makes it easy and more secure for organizations to grant local or remote access to corporate applications without the use of a VPN. By using Verified Access, you can assign group policies to manage your organizations’ application access and administrative privileges at scale.