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Webinar: How to build relationships with developers

Webinar

Webinar: How to build relationships with developers

Are you a security leader struggling to connect meaningfully with your developers? Join our guest expert, Dustin Lehr, to learn how to earn developers' respect, introduce gamification, and get issues fixed.

Alexandra Charikova
How to secure GraphQL APIs: challenges and best practices

GraphQL Security

How to secure GraphQL APIs: challenges and best practices

GraphQL APIs, while offering robust features and flexibility, present unique security challenges compared to traditional REST APIs. This article delves into the complexities of securing GraphQL APIs, highlighting common vulnerabilities and providing a comprehensive guide to best practices for building secure GraphQL apps. A visual learner? Check out our latest webinar on GraphQL security: Why Securing GraphQL is Challenging Complex query capabilities GraphQL APIs allow for complex querie

Alexandra Charikova
DAST is dead, why Business Logic Security Testing takes center stage

API Security

DAST is dead, why Business Logic Security Testing takes center stage

“DAST is dead” - that’s the phrase that appears every year on social media and in cybersecurity newsletters. But what if in 2024, it finally came true? DAST, Dynamic Application Security Testing (even though we see a new terminology “Dynamic API Security Testing” popping up here and there within the last weeks), has been a cornerstone of application security testing in the last decade but it’s time to make way for the next generation of application security testing - Business Logic Security Tes

Antoine Carossio
DAST Scanner: New features and improvements

Product updates

DAST Scanner: New features and improvements

We are excited to announce the updates to our DAST scanner, helping you achieve improved performance and obtain better results when testing your APIs.

Alexandra Charikova
API Inventory: New features and improvements

API Inventory

API Inventory: New features and improvements

With our updates to API discovery and inventory, you gain even more capabilities to easily achieve complete governance.

Alexandra Charikova
[Webinar] How to secure GraphQL

API Security

[Webinar] How to secure GraphQL

Join Uri Goldshtein and Tristan Kalos for a webinar on GraphQL security and learn to secure your GraphQL APIs.

Tristan Kalos
Are custom security tests a product security superpower? ⎜Keshav Malik (LinkedIn)

Custom Security Tests

Are custom security tests a product security superpower? ⎜Keshav Malik (LinkedIn)

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. In this article, we'll cover the main takeaways from our conversation with Keshav Malik, a senior Product Security Engineer at LinkedIn. Our goal is to help you understand how to better write your custom security tests. Dive right in! Keshav's background Keshav is a Senior Product Security Engineer at LinkedIn. With experience in information security and a passion for autom

Alexandra Charikova
How to secure cloud-native applications

Application Security

How to secure cloud-native applications

This article is based on the Elephant in AppSec podcast episode with Mihir Shah, a Senior Staff Application Security Engineer at ForgeRock, and the author of the Cloud Native Software Security Handbook.

Alexandra Charikova
[Fireside Chat] API sprawl: Understanding the growing challenge of 2024 and how to navigate it

API Security

[Fireside Chat] API sprawl: Understanding the growing challenge of 2024 and how to navigate it

Hey there 👋 Join Bill Doerrfeld, tech journalist and Editor-in-Chief at the Nordic APIs blog, Erik Wilde, OAI Ambassador at the OpenAPI Initiative, and Antoine Carossio, CTO and co-founder at Escape, for a fireside chat on the challenges of API sprawl. Sign me up! During this live discussion, they will explore: * The key factors contributing to API sprawl * Examine its causes * Discuss its implications for organizations, security engineers, and developers * Share insights on ways to pre

Alexandra Charikova
Workshop "How to write custom security tests" - Main Takeaways

API Security

Workshop "How to write custom security tests" - Main Takeaways

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to improve their defenses against business logic vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, often difficult to detect, can lead to significant security breaches if left unchecked. To address this challenge, we've introduced a new feature within our platform that empowers teams to create custom business logic tests for APIs, enabling the identification and remediation of security flaws at scale. To explain how to get started with custom security tests, we h

Alexandra Charikova
Why security engineers need a new approach to identify business logic flaws

API Security

Why security engineers need a new approach to identify business logic flaws

In the last decade, security scanners have evolved to identify common vulnerabilities like SQL injections. But that’s just not enough anymore. In 2024, data leaks in applications come from exploiting business logic flaws. In the next few years, applications will grow in size and number too fast, so the true advantage will come from being able to find business logic vulnerabilities at scale. The growing diversity of security tools changed the way we secured our applications in recent years. Th

Tristan Kalos
The art and science of product security: A deep dive with Jacob Salassi

Podcast

The art and science of product security: A deep dive with Jacob Salassi

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today we’re excited to have an amazing guest, Jacob Salassi, join us. You can find the main takeaways from our conversation with Jacob just down below! Jacob's background Jacob is the Director of Product Security and Regulatory Expansion at Snowflake, where he has played a pivotal role in guiding the company through its pre- and post-IPO phases. With over 15 years of exper

Alexandra Charikova
Introducing Escape rules - Rules that adapt for you

Product updates

Introducing Escape rules - Rules that adapt for you

Today, we’re launching customization improvements to Escape’s automated testing capabilities. With Escape Rules, you can now write custom security tests that do not require any maintenance and adapt to each newly discovered API and each new version of your existing APIs. 💡Want to learn how to write custom security tests for your APIs? Sign up for our upcoming workshop. What is an Escape Rule? Escape Rule is a custom security test that can be created to address unique security concerns or sc

Alexandra Charikova
Building security training for developers in 2024: Is it really worth it and how to proceed?

Application Security

Building security training for developers in 2024: Is it really worth it and how to proceed?

If you're a security engineer, the chances that you've struggled with your development team to implement secure coding practices are high. If you don't have the right culture in your organization, it might be even harder. Developers consider you as an adversary, rather than an ally that's here to help them. It feels like an uphill battle day in, day out. We had great training at Segment, where we had two parts where every single new engineer had to go through it. We had to think like an attacke

Alexandra Charikova
Sensitive data exposure: How to prevent it and where do we stand in 2025

API Security

Sensitive data exposure: How to prevent it and where do we stand in 2025

Do you fully grasp the magnitude of sensitive data exposure? It stands as one of the most prevalent and menacing threats to organizational security in 2025. Picture any information quintessential to an individual's or a company's identity and safety - personal, financial, health, or trade secrets. When such critical data sees the light of day in places it shouldn't, the dominoes start to fall: identity theft, scams, legal battles, tarnished reputations, and steep regulatory penalties. You don't

Alexandra Charikova
What is a Shadow API? Understanding the risks and strategies to prevent their sprawl

API Discovery

What is a Shadow API? Understanding the risks and strategies to prevent their sprawl

API Sprawl is a serious challenge in 2024, and shadow APIs are part of the problem. But do you actually know what Shadow APIs are and why they represent danger for organizations? With the ever-increasing number of exposed APIs, the pain of not being able to gain visibility over all of them is creeping up on security engineers. Unfortunately, it's all too common to have APIs in staging and production that no one on your development or security teams remembers or knows about. And if you don't kno

Alexandra Charikova
Developers and security training:  can they co-exist?⎜Laura Bell Main

Podcast

Developers and security training: can they co-exist?⎜Laura Bell Main

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today, we’re excited to have an amazing guest, Laura Bell Main, join us. With over 20 years in software development and application security, Laura is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an online education platform that offers secure development training for fast-moving companies. Laura is also a well-known keynote speaker and has spoken at high-profile events like BlackHa

Alexandra Charikova