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Semgrep is a leading static application security testing (SAST) tool powered by an open-source community for surfacing bugs, discovering vulnerabilities, and enforcing code standards. Semgrep has scanned over 75 million packages, contributed to 2000 community rules, and supports over 30 coding languages. Riscosity is the leading data flow observability and security platform. This is why we’re excited to announce Ricosity’s new integration with Semgrep.

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), launched by OWASP in 2015, is a partially automated, open-source, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing framework capable of performing static, dynamic, and malware analysis. MobSF is one of the most widely used security applications where the testing framework - a simple, flexible, and incredibly powerful tool has quickly become the lingua franca of security. The flexibility and accessibility of the tool are helpful but also dangerous.

As AI continues to reshape how code is written and managed, the emphasis on vigilant, security-conscious development practices becomes increasingly crucial. SAST stands as a critical tool in ensuring that the efficiencies gained through AI do not come at the cost of security and reliability.

In 2023, cyberthreats increased and diversified, resulting in increased security challenges for organizations around the globe. Meanwhile, AI greatly increased its presence in the realm of cybersecurity. It’s time to look ahead and focus on the anticipated cybersecurity threats and trends in 2024. What can we expect from threat actors and security specialists in the upcoming year? Read on and find out!

Web applications are one of the most common vectors for attacks, accounting for over 40% of breaches, according to Verizon's Data Breach Report. Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a crucial technique used by development teams and security professionals to secure web applications in the software development lifecycle.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) has a bit of a bad reputation. SAST tools can produce an overwhelming number of alerts and security teams, having often come from networking backgrounds, don’t always fully understand the alerts that they are passing on to developers for fixes. This can cause the relationships between the teams to sour, as developers often perceive this work as pointless and holding them back from working on their primary responsibilities like new features.

We live in a world that depends on embedded software. It’s in the cars we drive, the elevators we use and the planes we travel in. As these systems become increasingly complex, the security and functionality of embedded software systems is becoming integral to software development. However, due to the nature of embedded systems, many traditional testing methods fall short of providing adequate security for them.

Veracode is pleased to announce the availability of a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Plugin for VS Code. Our new plugin combines both Veracode Static Analysis (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) into a single plugin. This allows developers to quickly scan projects for security weaknesses and risks in both first-party code and third-party libraries.