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NGINX Integration: How to install nginx and instrument it to observe API traffic

Jun 25, 2025 By Astra Security In Astra
In this step-by-step tutorial, we walk you through the complete process of installing NGINX and instrumenting it to monitor and observe API traffic. Whether you're just getting started or looking to improve your observability stack, this guide will help you set up NGINX for effective traffic monitoring. In this video you'll learn: Why is this important? Observing API traffic helps you detect issues early, optimize performance, and ensure your services are running smoothly.
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What the 16 Billion Credentials Leak Really Means (And Why It's Not a New Breach)

Jun 24, 2025 By Aakanksha Khanna In Astra
Another breach? Not quite. You’ve probably seen the headlines: “16 billion passwords leaked in the largest breach ever.” It sounds like a cybersecurity doomsday event. Media outlets ran with it. Even seasoned security leaders reposted it in alarm. Here’s the truth: this isn’t a fresh breach. No, Google, Meta, and Apple weren’t hacked. What actually happened is that a massive trove of previously stolen credentials was released.
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Top 7 Fintech Cybersecurity Companies in 2025

Jun 5, 2025 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
In 2025, fintech cybersecurity companies are more than just defenders—they’re enablers of trust and growth in a complex, fast-evolving threat landscape. For CTOs, CISOs, and risk leaders, the challenge lies in securing CI/CD pipelines, API-first architectures, and real-time transactions, all while staying compliant with regional and global regulations. Even a minor misstep, such as a misconfigured container, can escalate into a significant risk.
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SOC 2 Compliance and Vulnerability Scanning: A Complete Guide

Jun 2, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
With 5+ vulnerabilities being discovered every minute, a SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) compliance certificate demonstrates to customers and partners that the organization is committed to security and adheres to industry best practices for safeguarding data. Apart from customer trust, it can help organizations find and fix security vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Smart Cities

Jun 2, 2025 By Shikhil Sharma In Astra
Cities worldwide consume ~66% of global energy, account for ~3/4th of GHG emissions, and host over a billion people in informal settlements with barely enough to survive. This underlines the need to create sustainable, connected, and inclusive urban areas that offer a decent quality of life, since by 2050, 7 out of 10 people globally are estimated to live in such regions.
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Risk Assessment: An Expert Guide

May 28, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
Businesses are at risk of cyberattacks every day. Without careful scrutiny, these threats result in data loss, financial loss, and reputational damage. A comprehensive risk assessment enables the identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities in advance. This guide leads you through the process of performing a risk assessment, defining pain points with workable solutions, and provides you with security tools to improve your overall security posture.
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A Guide to Fintech Security

May 28, 2025 By Keshav Malik In Astra
Fintech security refers to the protocols, technical controls, and tailored policies that protect financial technology systems, software, and customer data from cyber threats. It ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability across digital financial services through systems designed to prevent fraud, protect transactions, and detect security events before they cause irreversible harm.
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Mergers and Acquisition Penetration Testing Explained

May 27, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
The real risk in M&A isn’t hidden. It’s just inconvenient to surface. Everyone’s pushing for closure. Security gets boxed into a checklist, technical debt gets rebranded as “Post acquisition planning,” and the systems you’re about to inherit stay largely unchallenged until it’s too late.
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Pentesting in 2025: Insights, Trends, and Predictions

May 27, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
The future of security isn’t speed; it’s strategy. Cybersecurity in 2025 is caught in a paradox: the tools are getting faster, but the threats are getting smarter. With 5.3 vulnerabilities discovered every minute across thousands of assets, organizations aren’t short on data; they’re overwhelmed by it. But volume isn’t the headline.
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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner: Capabilities, Workflows, and Limitations

May 19, 2025 By Aakanksha Khanna In Astra
For many cybersecurity teams, Nessus is the scanner they started with; a reliable, battle-tested tool that’s been part of the security stack for over two decades. Backed by Tenable’s extensive vulnerability database, Nessus is known for its accuracy in identifying known CVEs and misconfigurations across networks and systems. But while environments have evolved from on-prem to multi-cloud, from VMs to containers, Nessus has primarily stayed the same.
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