Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For consecutive years, applications have remained the top attack vector for black hats, with supply chain attacks not far behind. At the same time, market research indicates that enterprise security managers and software developers continue to complain that their application security tools are cumbersome. When asked, many developers admit that they don’t run security tests as often as they should, and they push code to production even when they know it has security flaws.

Coverage-guided fuzzers, like Jazzer, maximize the amount of executed code during fuzzing. This has proven to produce interesting findings deep inside the codebase. Only checking validation rules on the first application layer isn’t providing great benefits, whereas verifying logic in and interactions of deeply embedded components is. To extend the amount of covered code, the fuzzer tries to mutate its input in such a way that it passes existing checks and reaches yet unknown code paths.

Application innovation, design, development, quality assurance, and security testing have changed dramatically over the past decade. Engineering teams are leveraging agile development processes, modern cloud platforms, reusable microservices, and extensible APIs, enabling them to shift to more frequent deployments more easily.