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3 Jedi-inspired lessons to level up your JavaScript security

You might think of Star Wars as a movie reserved for geeks, but what if I told you that there are deep life lessons that can be applied to developer security practices? Get your lightsaber ready and prepare to dive into JavaScript security! Star Wars is an epic space-based film series written and directed by George Lucas that often needs no introduction. I’m a fan myself, and personally relate to many of the quotes shared by Jedi Knights in the movie series.

New York Department of Financial Services Modernizes Regulatory Oversight through Establishing First-of-its-Kind Use Case with SecurityScorecard

New York DFS is working with SecurityScorecard to further support the department’s first-in-the-nation cybersecurity efforts to modernize its supervision process. The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) is now working with SecurityScorecard to modernize its approach toward regulatory oversight.

CIS Control 7: Continuous Vulnerability Management

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) provides Critical Security Controls to help organizations improve cybersecurity. Control 7 addresses continuous vulnerability management (this topic was previously covered under CIS Control 3). Continuous vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, documenting and remediating weak points in an IT environment.

CIS Control 4: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets & Software

Maintaining secure configurations on all your IT assets is critical for cybersecurity, compliance and business continuity. Indeed, even a single configuration error can lead to security incidents and business disruptions. Control 4 of CIS Critical Security Controls version 8 details cyber defense best practices that can help you establish and maintain proper configurations for both software and hardware assets.

CIS Control 1: Inventory and Control of Enterprise Assets

Unless you know what IT assets you have and how important each of them is to your organization, it’s almost impossible to make strategic decisions about IT security and incident response. Indeed, inventory and control of enterprise assets is so important that it is the first in the set of Critical Security Control (CSCs) published by the Center for Internet Security (CIS).

Phishing, OWASP, EASM, and hacking WordPress - top themes from Hack Yourself London

When Algolia’s security program manager Regina Bluman ran a Twitter poll to see how many people within the security industry understood the concept of EASM, she didn’t expect that the term is far from being on an IT security team’s radar. Moreover, most were not even aware of it.

Snyk brings infrastructure as code security to HashiCorp Terraform Cloud

In our mission to make Terraform Cloud workflows more streamlined and secure, we’re excited to announce our new native integration into HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. This integration embeds the security expertise and developer-friendly fixes of Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC) directly into Terraform Cloud, making the Terraform Cloud workflow one of the safest ways to provision and manage public cloud infrastructure.