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The OWASP cryptographic failure is responsible for the leaking of data of critical nature to ill-intended people. Examples, how to prevent ?

Rate limiting in API is setting a limit on traffic exchange and API usage to ensure that the system is not overloaded.

☝️How to start and to ensure network Security in a SaaS Startup - best practices, standards, risks.

☝️ Information security (InfoSec) includes the tools and principles that companies use to protect business information. Learn what types, risks are there.

Defense in Depth strategy is a concept that combines various security systems. Defense in Depth layers, advantages, elements, practices.🛡️

✔️ WAAP security is a collection of cloud-deployed cybersecurity implementations protecting APIs and web applications. Discover leading WAAP solutions by Wallarm

📋 As API gateway as well as Service Mesh makes good choice in establishing secure and continual communication across all the end-points

⌨️ Serverless computing enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure. The Future of Serverless.

How Service Mesh works? When to use it for your benefit? Why do we need it? What are its advantages and disadvantages?

👉 We rarely talk about API discovery. In this article, we are going to give you a detailed overview of this subject only.‍

📑 What is SSL Encryption meaning? Who need ? How SSL works? Types of certificates. How to get?

🔎 Basic authentication designed for HTTP users, it is the basic schema for validating a request reaching the server. What is better Basic Auth or OAuth?

⚠️Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) security solutions analyze events from devices, servers, IoT and cloud workloads, to identify suspicious activity

API abuse security attacks refer to the act of wrong-handling of APIs, gaining unsanctioned access, and modifying the key functions. 👉 How to defend from it?

📄 SAML stands for Security Assertion Markup Language is an XML-based protocol that makes single sign-on (SSO) to web applications possible.

🔔 Communication API in IoT plays an important role. So, let’s move about the Internet of Things API and key API security practices to adopt in this post.

CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is one of the most prevalent acronyms in the world of the API industry and developer community. 📒

The Portal API is the middleman used to connect API vendors and end users. 👨‍💼 Users can use it to access a wide range of APIs

🎯 API in Java is an essential element for internal and efficient application development. Learn its meaning, what is Java used for, what are Java API packages

Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) in IoT - Definition, its full form, architecture, examples and functions in API security.

⚙️ The world of API protocols is evolving. Typical SOAP and REST APIs have many companies like GraphQL, gRPC, and Thrift. JSON-RPC is also on the list.

OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol for API security. We describe its meaning, the difference between OAuth 1.0 vs 2.0 and SAML and OAuth 💻

📙 AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) Standard is a commonly used messaging protocol used in the open-source application development process.

👉 MQTT is a reliable messaging protocol advancing conversations for IoT solutions smoothly. Find out its advantages, disadvantages, meaning, use cases.

👉 Identity and Access Management (IAM) technology is a framework that manages key policy terms, standards, procedures, and adopted by a business.

👉Multi Factor Authentication is a high-end security technology clubbing a couple of authentication methods in one place. Why is MFA important?

👉 What is CISO? How to become CISO? Its roles and responsibilities, requirements, its definition. What is the full form of CISO?

👉 In this post, let’s figure out what are Shadow APIs and the ways to secure them and keep nuisances under control.

👉 In this article, we will guide you on what Ghost API is for, how it works, how to use it efficiently, and a lot more.

📋 Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a mechanized convention that is intended to interface one PC framework to another. How it protects data and what is used for?

In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as Insufficient Logging and Monitoring vulnerability. Let us take a look at what it is, examples, failures, an attack scenario, ways to detect and prevent it.

In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as Improper Assets Management vulnerability. Let us take a look at what it is, an attack scenario, ways to detect and defend it.

👉In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as Injection. Let's take a look at what it is, an attack scenario, ways to detect and defend it.

Api Security Misconfiguration vulnerability might lead to an attacker being able to fully take over all the infrastructure, how to prevent it. Let us take a closer look at this.

In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as api Mass Assignment. Let us take a look at what it is, examples, an attack scenario, how to detect and protect them.

In this article, we are going to tell you about api Broken Function Level Authorization. This vulnerability can be quite complex and varied.

In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as no rate limit vulnerability. Let us take a look at what it is, examples, how to detect and protect them.

In this article, we will tell you about such a threat as Excessive Data Exposure checkmarx vulnerability. Let us consider what it is, examples of threats, we will speak about defense .

Broken authentication vulnerability means that the user's session ID or credentials have been stolen. Examples, preventive measures against it.

Definition of Broken Object Level Authorization. Main types, examples of threats, acсess control. How to detect and to defend against this attack?

The left one is the Server Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability which has secured 10th place. After all, one can’t afford to take the issue lightly. Its dangers are damage-causing. 

Software and Data Integrity Failures, the latest vulnerability in OWASP’s most-recent list, ☝️ is something any software user should be familiar with. Let’s learn more about it.

Insecure Design vulnerability is broad, explains many weaknesses as absent and unproductive control design. Learn what it means, examples, solutions. 📙

👉 "Insufficient logging and monitoring" is in hard to detect but it’s also hard to protect from. There are several ways we can protect ourselves from this vulnerability

👉 "A9: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities", we are often talking about either outdated pieces of software or software that is not actively maintained anymore. Details in the article

👉 Insecure serialization has historically been considered a very difficult vulnerability to understand, in this article we will try to explain it to you in detail

We will look at what it takes to look for all kinds of XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks in all sorts of contexts - how to test for cross site scripting, famous examples, types, impact.

👉 In this article we will put together a general guide to testing security misconfigurations by looking at the common properties of all the problems we can find in the descriptions and actions.

Broken Access control vulnerability is designed to grant or restrict rights to certain users in the application. Let us learn more about this attack, its examples, types, impact and prevention.

An XXE (XML External Entities) attack occurs when malicious actors send off data in one of the XML formats they have control over. Let us take a closer look at this vulnerability, its examples and prevention.

In this article we will talk about kinds of sensitive information disclosure going from debug information to admin passwords, about its testing, examples, impact and prevention.

When authentication problems and session management vulnerability arise, it is connected with wasp weak password policy, it is always fraught with dire consequences. As you will see in this article, it can be fatal for any business. Explore A2:Broken Authentication attack, what is its impact.

There is a range of different sql injection attacks that can occur and we will be discussing them in this article. Explore a vulnerability such as A1:Injection

If you are using the cloud or moving to the cloud, the most commonly used term is "Cloud Native". Get to know the basic meaning of "Cloud Native" and its functions. ⚙️

MDR is a managed digital service offered by third-party. It involves early diagnosis of threats, monitoring of the ecosystem. MDR vs MSSP. MDR vs EDR.

Data masking is a method of protecting important data from intrusion that keeps data safe and secure. 👆 Meaning, methods, technology, problems.

Virtual organization security gadgets utilized in the public cloud are open cloud managed firewalls. What is cloud based firewall, cloud firewall service?

An organizations zero-trust security network depends on continuous verification and monitoring of every access. How to implement zero trust network?

☝️How to start and to ensure network Security in a SaaS Startup - best practices, standards, risks.

☝️ Information security (InfoSec) includes the tools and principles that companies use to protect business information. Learn what types, risks are there.

👉 SaaS is a short form for Software-as-a-Service applications which runs in the cloud. Its meaning, models, pros and cons. How does it work?

👉 The definition of Transport Layer Security (TLS) - business standard for permitting two associated applications or gadgets to send information safely.

WAF plays a vital role in filtering, blocking, and jamming malicious elements. Learn what WAF stands for, its definition, meaning, how it works.👈

Firewall is a network security architecture between a trusted and an untrusted networks which allows or blocks traffic based on security rules. 👈

👉 "Insufficient logging and monitoring" is in hard to detect but it’s also hard to protect from. There are several ways we can protect ourselves from this vulnerability

👉 "A9: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities", we are often talking about either outdated pieces of software or software that is not actively maintained anymore. Details in the article

👉 Insecure serialization has historically been considered a very difficult vulnerability to understand, in this article we will try to explain it to you in detail

We will look at what it takes to look for all kinds of XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks in all sorts of contexts - how to test for cross site scripting, famous examples, types, impact.

👉 In this article we will put together a general guide to testing security misconfigurations by looking at the common properties of all the problems we can find in the descriptions and actions.

Broken Access control vulnerability is designed to grant or restrict rights to certain users in the application. Let us learn more about this attack, its examples, types, impact and prevention.

An XXE (XML External Entities) attack occurs when malicious actors send off data in one of the XML formats they have control over. Let us take a closer look at this vulnerability, its examples and prevention.

In this article we will talk about kinds of sensitive information disclosure going from debug information to admin passwords, about its testing, examples, impact and prevention.

When authentication problems and session management vulnerability arise, it is connected with wasp weak password policy, it is always fraught with dire consequences. As you will see in this article, it can be fatal for any business. Explore A2:Broken Authentication attack, what is its impact.

There is a range of different sql injection attacks that can occur and we will be discussing them in this article. Explore a vulnerability such as A1:Injection

In this article, you will learn what XSS attack is. What are the types of cross-site scripting, how xss injection works. Why is it dangerous and how to protect from it.

Learn how you can secure personal identifying information data in web applications. PII is information which can identify an individual.

If you have a small budget, you can block a ddos attack mitigation by following our recommendations. Good luck🖐

HULK is an abbreviation for HTTP Unbearable Load King, which is a web server Distributed Denial of Service tool. It is mainly designed for research purpose ⚙️

In literal terms, the attack surface definition means absolute area/assets/environment that is gullible to a cyber-attack. First, 🔎 find out your attack surface and shield it.

CSRF and XSS are two such client-side attacks. They both are nefarious and have serious outcomes. Let’s unearth the truth behind the CSRF v/s XSS attack. ⚔️

Privilege escalation is normally not the aggressor's ultimate objective, 🕵️‍♂️ it is much of the time utilized as a component of the arrangement cycle for a more engaged cyberattack

Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS is alluded to as BEAST. ⚙️ It is an organization weakness assault against TLS 1.0 and prior SSL versions.

The SSL 3.0 protocol is defenseless against the POODLE attack (CVE-2014-3566). This blemish empowers an assailant to catch SSLv3-scrambled traffic. ⚙️

Learn what LDAP Injection is, how it can affect your site/application, or how you can prevent it. 📙 Read on to be fully informed.

Magecart hacker group have reportedly performed malicious activities from 2016. They frequently only focus on online shopping cart 🛒 systems, one of which is the Magento platform

Spyware is a hurtful type of software that covertly gets private data determined to hurt you or your business. In this article, we will talk about it in detail. 🔍

Wardriving is something that will interest you. Known for one movie, this practice of using WiFi connections ⚙️ is both a boon and a disaster. Get answers to all your questions about Wardriving

Data exfiltration attack is a process of removing, stealing, exporting, manipulating, accessing private data in an unauthorized manner. Detection, tools.

A programmer will use an attack vector to acquire unapproved admittance to a PC or organization. Attack vector vs attack surface. What's the difference?

Bot mitigation software implies bringing down the risk of mechanized bot attacks and keeping them from mishandling your sites, applications, clients.

Carding is a kind of cybercrime wherein criminals get taken card cvv, crack gift cards and use them to make buys or to different cheats for benefit.

ICMP ping flood happens when the attacker floods the casualty's PC with ICMP reverberation demands, otherwise called "pings," to carry it to a total end.

Scalpers are unscrupulous people who use special strategies for buying tickets or item units. One can buy many tickets using ticket buying bot software.

Email spoofing is a strategy used to hoodwink individuals into accepting a message came from a source they either know or can trust. How does it work?

Sneaker bot is a program that sneaker-buyers use to automate the time-consuming of online buying. Is sneaker bot illegal? How to get a sneaker bot?

Spear-phishing uses social engineering methods to lure a user, force to share sensitive data. What helps to protect from it? Spear phishing vs phishing.

A Sybil attack is when a malicious entity creates many duplicate accounts to pose as real users. How does sybil attack work? 👈

Tiny banker Trojan is a form of malware that can steal banking credentials and funnel the money into specific accounts. Learn how to detect and remove it. 💻

Website defacement is an attack on a website that attempts to modify the website’s content or code. How does it work? Examples, prevention, protection.

KRACK or Key Reinstallation Attack is an attack that hackers use with WPA2 wireless encryption standards to intercept communications between clients.

Cyber extortion happens when an attacker requests cash or something different in return for recapturing admittance to your information. Solutions, meaning.

A DNS flood attack is a type of DDoS cyberattack that floods a computer’s IP address with requests to a server. How does it work?

IP blacklisting is an organization security method that forestalls noxious IP addresses from interfacing with the organization. Problems. How to avoid?

Hacktivism is a sort of social or political activism that includes breaking into a solid PC framework and unleashing devastation. Goals, types, motives.

Scareware attack in cyber security is a cyber threat that involves fear-mongering into the target so that they are bound to download corrupted malware.

Pharming attack is a sort of friendly cyberattack in which lawbreakers direct web clients to a phony site when they are searching for a particular site.

NTP amplification attack is a sort of DDoS assault in which the aggressor floods the objective with UDP traffic utilizing openly available NTP servers.

Hackers use information disclosure weaknesses of web applications to learn important data about it and use this data for a more fruitful hack attack. ⚔️

Magecart hacker group have reportedly performed malicious activities from 2016. They frequently only focus on online shopping cart 🛒 systems, one of which is the Magento platform

Data exfiltration attack is a process of removing, stealing, exporting, manipulating, accessing private data in an unauthorized manner. Detection, tools.

Bot mitigation software implies bringing down the risk of mechanized bot attacks and keeping them from mishandling your sites, applications, clients.

Scalpers are unscrupulous people who use special strategies for buying tickets or item units. One can buy many tickets using ticket buying bot software.

The Heartbleed bug allows anyone to read the memory of the server and extract its data without any authorisation. How to protect from heartbleed exploit?

IP blacklisting is an organization security method that forestalls noxious IP addresses from interfacing with the organization. Problems. How to avoid?

Log forging is a malicious attack on your computer 💻 where someone is trying to steal data from the system. When someone does this, they are able to see your passwords

Format string attack is often found in C language programs, it refers to a bug found in the printf() function. Format string vulnerabilities in Python.

Arbitrary code execution vulnerability is a capacity of an assailant to execute any orders on an objective machine without the proprietor's information.

Smishing attack aims to trick the victim into committing fraud. How does it work? How to avoid it? Its meaning, types and methods of protection. 👈

Keylogger is a program or hardware that intercepts and scans what people type on their console. What are legal and illegal keyloggers used for?

Most frameworks are safeguarded by firewalls, making direct remote shell associations unthinkable. 🔄 A reverse shell is one strategy for getting around this limitation.

A decompression bomb 💥 is frequently used to cripple an antivirus program. Let’s go on to see a zip bomb definition, how do they work and some examples.

In Linux, a bash fork bomb attack is a framework call that duplicates and makes another interaction from a current one. How does a shell fork bomb work?

Software and Data Integrity Failures, the latest vulnerability in OWASP’s most-recent list, ☝️ is something any software user should be familiar with. Let’s learn more about it.

Insecure Design vulnerability is broad, explains many weaknesses as absent and unproductive control design. Learn what it means, examples, solutions. 📙

☝️ Using Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) attack, hackers can create a good environment for a bigger attack. Learn its meaning, examples, mitigation.

The OWASP cryptographic failure is responsible for the leaking of data of critical nature to ill-intended people. Examples, how to prevent ?

☝️ Open redirect attack is a security loophole category of extensive web application attack. How to fix and prevent it + examples.

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) comprises specialized parts of programming, equipment, firmware imperfections. CVSS Score Metrics

Definition of CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) vulnerability, why it is significant in security. The difference between CWE and CVE.

In this guide we will explain What is a Worm in computer terms❓ How a computer Worm works, its Examples, Types and computer Worm Detection.

Log4j exploit allows the threat actor to gain administrative control over Internet devices/resources. How it works, how to detect it, how to fix it. ♨️

🔔 SSTI attack is a server-side template injection, when an attacker is able to use native template syntax to inject a malicious payload into a template

⚠️ An exploit is a weakness in a program that is used to break into the system In this post we find out what exploiting weaknesses in a system refer to, its types.

🕍 Citadel Trojan Virus is the Zeus-based malware is the biggest enemy of the details managed by leading password managers. Learn the meaning of the attack.

Clickjacking is a kind of assault wherein the misfortune taps on joins on a site they recognize to be a known in site. How does it work? How to prevent it?

🔎 A blended threats virus or blended attack can be described as a type of malware that involves a series of attacks that focus on different vulnerabilities.

Google Dork is a method employed by ethical hackers to make queries on search engines when they are sourcing for very delicate pieces of information.

Interactive Application Security Testing is an ultra-modern approach to application testing that emphasizes continuous monitoring 👁‍🗨 and testing of the code.

Static Application Security Testing is a type of AppSec testing inspired by the software verification methodology. 👈

The Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) definition refers to a particular kind of application in which the operating system under test is analyzed while it is being used. ⚠️

SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 are three classifications of reports to obtain while a business tries to adapt to SOC. A comparison of these three reports.

Ethical hacking is a strategy that includes tracking down blemishes in an application, framework, or foundation. Ethical hacking vs penetration testing.

Red Teams and Blue Teams should cooperate, making a Purple Team. When is Purple Teaming needed? How to carry out Purple Teaming?

👉Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are both significant increments to in general infiltration testing administrations. Which is Better?

What are vulnerability assessments? Process. What is the process of a penetration test? When do you carry out vulnerability assessments or pentests?

👉A penetration tester is a professional that carries out simulated cyber-attacks against security systems to determine shortcomings. What does he do?

👉In this article, we'll treat everything about Application Penetration check including a portion of its well-known apparatuses.

👉A grey hat hacker is somebody who might abuse moral norms or standards, without the malignant purpose. Why are they needed? Why are they useful?

👉Penetration testing is a type of safety check that is done to decide the productivity of a framework's security. Best pen testing devices and equipment.

White Box Testing is a software testing. How to perform it? The difference between white box testing, grey and black box testing.

👉In this article, we will explain to you the concept of Penetration Test. What are the stages of pentest, pros and cons.Why it is important to do a pen testing.

Read about SOC 2 audit process and scope. Find out how long it takes to get soc 2 compliance, as well as its preparation, process and its policies and procedures.

Learn about SOC 2 compliance and security. Find out its principles, documentation, requirements. Why it matters when choosing a SaaS provider ❓ Part 1 of 2

Find out what a pentest is, learn different types such as white box penetration testing and grey box penetration testing why they are needed. Improve your security solutions and protect from this vulnerability.

Continuous Integration is a method of freeware development in which cipher is integrated into a central source on a regular basis (preferably many 🕓 times per day).

At a very primal level, Service Discovery acts like a log or bookkeeping of instances featuring location details of every instance. 👈

Pod is called the most basic and imperative entity, and it is what makes Kubernetes functional. It's the smallest viable object of the Kubernetes ecosystem. 🔆

Big data technology makes the foundation of data analysis, because it generates raw data which is further sorted, analyzed, and managed to drive results and insights from datasets. ❗️

Circuit breaker specification: a robotic instrument 🔧 that is used to hand-operated or spontaneously construct, carry, or break a circuit in both standard and abnormal operating circumstances.

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) meaning is a method for creating high-quality, low-cost software in a short amount of time. 🕑

A virtual machine is a freeware that simulates computer 💻 hardware. "The Guest" denotes the application, while "host" states the drive/hardware

SNI is a required extension for IPv4, considering that there are only about 4 billion IPs globally, and not all of them are capable of hosting SSL certificates. ⚙️

Cloud Computing technology reduces operational costs, improves infrastructure management, and enables you to scale as your business's needs change. 🔎

Progressive delivery is a non-negotiable part of the CI/CD approach and enables developers to ship the required codes quickly with the least possible risks. ⚙️

It stands for ‘Yet Another Markup Language’ in the beginning. ☝️ Later, it became ‘YAML Ain’t Markup language’ to make one thing clear: the language is only used for data.

In a nutshell, distributed tracing is an essential procedure for analysing and following requests as they move back and forth between distributed systems. 🔀

Canary Deployment is process, the latest version/relaease of an application is supplied while the old one is still being used. ⌛️ It is a part of the modified approach developers follow today.

The modern Kubernetes multi-cluster architecture, which involves using more than one Kubernetes cluster at the same time. 🕒 Explore more about this concept with this post

Identity Provider (IDP) is a digital service that helps users establish and track their digital identity and the various identifying factors that go along with it. 👈

Observability examines telemetry data to control when, where, and why app failures occur. 👀 It lets find problems and fix them.

Ensuring sustainable and productive system availability is associated with high availability or HA. ⚠️ Let's understand this approach. 

Required to describe custom resources clearly, ⚙️ K8s custom resource definition is a must-learn for you. It lets you use custom-created resources.

Control plane is the network-routing component that take care of data packet flow and forwarding. It’s accountable for the right network traffic routing 🔀 on a specific network

A crisp and result-driven application modernization strategy is what pushes a venture to remain time-relevant on the technology front. Let’s get familiar with it. ☝️

Organizations adopt Application Performance Monitoring to ensure that deployed enterprise solutions are working as they should be. 👈

A part of every system engaging in data transfer, the data plane deals with incoming or user-generated traffic and decides what action to be taken.

Continuous Delivery or CD is one of the many preferred development methodologies that software developers adopt. CD involves breaking the entire development goals into short cycles. 👈

By definition, a container registry is a centrally managed platform managing and storing container images. These images are cloud-deployed. 🔎

A load balancer is a tool responsible for the even distribution of traffic and to avoid server crashes or high response times is very useful for large companies. 🏭

The article looks at the value of the virtual private cloud, its benefits, and what it will do for public cloud customers to get a better understanding of it. ☝️

An authorization paradigm called attribute-based access control (ABAC) characterizes access control policies 👮‍♂️ regarding attributes, including resources, objects, environments, and user attributes.

Microservice-based architecture is a current approach to application or digital product. It’s used for cloud-native solutions. ☁️

The ideal occurrence scenario for a 🚗 race condition attack is when two or more programs/software try to access a specific asset/resource simultaneously.

System hardening is a technique that AppSec and security experts recommend when looking for sufficient protection against cyberthreats.