Top 50 Application Security Pros to Follow on Twitter

If you are like many in our online connected world, you get some of your news from Twitter, both personally and professionally.  For those that are security professionals, that have been looking to enhance your twitter feed with additional application … Continue reading Top 50 Application Security Pros to Follow on Twitter

Retailers Can’t Afford to Neglect Security

In recent blog posts from K2, we’ve highlighted the need for additional application security for healthcare and financial verticals with the increased attacks on those organizations.  In a recent article in Supply Chain Brain, security for another vert… Continue reading Retailers Can’t Afford to Neglect Security

Attacks on Healthcare Applications Increased in December 2020

A new report highlighted in Security Boulevard,  is showing a 51 percent increase in attacks on web applications hosted by healthcare providers during December 2020, the timing of which coincides with the initial distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
The … Continue reading Attacks on Healthcare Applications Increased in December 2020

Banks are Increasing Application Security

When talking about application security, financial institutions are typically at the top of the list that have the biggest concern around the security of their web applications.  So should be no surprise to see a recent article in Finextra, talking abo… Continue reading Banks are Increasing Application Security

Five Key Application Security Trends for 2021

If you’re looking for a direction to head with your application security efforts, TechBeacon recently ran an article on five key application security trends for 2021.  With the increasing focus on application security, maybe it’s time to take a look at… Continue reading Five Key Application Security Trends for 2021

Re-Thinking Application Security

Recent reports have shown applications are making it to production with more vulnerabilities than ever, and attacks on web applications have doubled in the most recent year.  It’s really time to change how we think about application security, how we pr… Continue reading Re-Thinking Application Security

Details on the New NIST Requirement for RASP and IAST

If you’re looking for more information on the latest update to the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies) Security and Privacy Framework outlined in SP800-53, there’s a new article just published in the Cutter Business Technology Journ… Continue reading Details on the New NIST Requirement for RASP and IAST

More Details on the NIST SP800-53 Revision 5 Finalized Security and Privacy Framework

Now that SP800-53 Revision 5 has been released in its final form, those with systems in the federal government and those enterprises that work with the federal government may be wondering when they need to be in compliance with the new security framewo… Continue reading More Details on the NIST SP800-53 Revision 5 Finalized Security and Privacy Framework

Still Looking For RASP Resources? SANS Has A RASP Report

It turns out the SANS Institute created a report titled, “Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), Investigation of the Effectiveness of a RASP Solution in Protecting Known Vulnerable Target Applications” in April of 2019, and covers a lot of useful… Continue reading Still Looking For RASP Resources? SANS Has A RASP Report

NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Released – Next Generation Security and Privacy Controls

Draft 5 of SP 800-53 closed its comment period back in May, and was just released as SP 800-53 Revision 5 on September 23, 2020 in its final form.
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