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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the world has made a growing number of people realize how many of our everyday activities depend on software. We increasingly work, educate ourselves, play, communicate with others, consume entertainment, go shop… Continue reading How to secure software in a DevOps world
Drupal’s security team has fixed three vulnerabilities in the popular content management system’s core, one of which (CVE-2020-13663) could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Drupal is a free and open-source web content manageme… Continue reading Drupal fixes three vulnerabilities, including one RCE
Checkmarx SCA: New SaaS-based software composition analysis solution CxSCA leverages Checkmarx’s source code analysis and automation capabilities, empowering security and development teams to identify vulnerabilities within open source software that pr… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: June 5, 2020
The use of open source code in modern software has become nearly ubiquitous. It makes perfect sense: facing ever-increasing pressures to accelerate the rate at which new applications are delivered, developers value the ready-made aspect of open source … Continue reading Cooking up secure code: A foolproof recipe for open source
Checkmarx announced the launch of Checkmarx SCA (CxSCA), the company’s new, SaaS-based software composition analysis solution. CxSCA leverages Checkmarx’s source code analysis and automation capabilities, empowering security and development teams to ea… Continue reading Checkmarx SCA: New SaaS-based software composition analysis solution
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced that Hellman & Friedman (“H&F”) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Company from Insight Partners, which will continue to own a substantial m… Continue reading Hellman & Friedman acquires Checkmarx to bolster growth
The application security company Checkmarx is changing ownership again. The private equity firm Insight Partners said on Monday it will sell Checkmarx to Hellman & Friedman, another private equity company, at a valuation of $1.15 billion. Intsight has owned Checkmarx since June 2015, when investors injected $84 million into the Israeli company. Intsight will retain a significant minority stake in Checkmarx under the terms of the deal. “As cybersecurity threats continue to intensify, we strongly believe that embedding security early in the software development lifecycle is critical,” Tarim Wasim, a partner at Hellman & Friedman, said in a statement. “We look forward to building on Checkmarx’s tremendous success to date and supporting the company’s rapid growth in the years ahead.” Founded in 2006, Checkmarx says it mitigates enterprise security risk by helping developers find vulnerabilities, then fix them. The company is perhaps best known for discovering a number of bugs […]
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Checkmarx, a global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced that Ron Kormanek, vice president of North America sales, has been appointed to the company’s executive management team as it continues to drive rapid customer adoption and… Continue reading Ron Kormanek joins Checkmarx’s executive management team
You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.
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Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced at the RSA Conference 2020 new enhancements to its market-leading Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application securit… Continue reading Checkmarx simplifies AST automation for modern development and DevOps environments