What AppSec Can Learn From Developers’ Feature Bug Workflows

In order to scale application security (AppSec) to meet the pace of the software feature development, AppSec must engage developers with new workflows that balance security and productivity. In order to meet this challenge, today we are announcing new … Continue reading What AppSec Can Learn From Developers’ Feature Bug Workflows

ShiftLeft Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding

Today we are thrilled to announce a new $20M round of Series B funding. Thomvest Ventures led the round and was joined by new investor SineWave Ventures. Our existing investors, Bain Capital Ventures and Mayfield Ventures, also participated in the Ser… Continue reading ShiftLeft Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding

The Need for Real-World Runtime Protection Benchmarking

First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic eleme… Continue reading The Need for Real-World Runtime Protection Benchmarking

Deserialization Vulnerability Confirmed in Nexmo 3.4.0 SDK

Nexmo has confirmed that their 3.4.0 SDK contained the Jackson-databind vulnerability that we announced earlier this week as widespread amongst SaaS SDKs.
The deserialization vulnerability can be escalated into remote control execution (RCE) by tr… Continue reading Deserialization Vulnerability Confirmed in Nexmo 3.4.0 SDK

OffensiveCon 2018: Building a Zero-Day Machine

Fabian Yamaguchi, Niko Schmidt & Marco Bartoli of ShiftLeft recently presented on our efforts to build a zero-day vulnerability machine at OffensiveCon. You can watch their presentation below.
FIELD REPORT ON A ZERO-DAY MACHINE
Make no mistake… Continue reading OffensiveCon 2018: Building a Zero-Day Machine

Your App is Leaking Data, Its Just a Question of How Badly

If data leakage isn’t the fastest growing problem in AppSec, I don’t know what is. In our experience, 100% of customer environments are leaking data. The adoption of microservices, combined with increasingly shorter development cycles, mea… Continue reading Your App is Leaking Data, Its Just a Question of How Badly

What the Next Era of Cloud Computing Means for AppSec & the SDLC

Since the 1990s there have been three logical phases of cloud adoption, from pioneering to mass adoption and managing. Effectively, the success of each phase led to the next phase, and we are in the management phase today. However, it’s the prob… Continue reading What the Next Era of Cloud Computing Means for AppSec & the SDLC