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Penetration Testing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Ethical Hacking

Every day, we use and generate huge amounts of data. And this data is used by different sectors like healthcare, finance, marketing, and others. However, data breaches are increasingly rampant these days. That’s why such sensitive information should be safeguarded. This is where penetration hacking comes in handy. Penetration testing or ethical hacking is used to get access to resources. Hackers carry out attacks to uncover security vulnerabilities and assess their strengths.

Compliance Audit Best Practices

If you’re working in a regulated industry, compliance audits are a part of your day-to-day. Without the right processes in place to follow applicable standards, compliance can be tricky, and audits can be daunting. In order to successfully comply with regulatory standards applicable in your industry, you will be required to adopt a set of tools and practices as part of your product lifecycle itself.

Kong and Neosec: Behavioral Analytics With Response Automation

The Neosec platform integrates with Kong Gateway Enterprise to provide automated and continuous API discovery, API risk posture alerting and API protection through behavioral analytics and response automation. And it does all that while being out of band, using the logs shipped from Kong to Neosec.

Securing your Applications in Node.js - Part 1/3

Javascript is here to stay! And the server-side Node.js project is no different 💚. This year marks the 12th (Dec 4, 2009) anniversary of the birth of Node.js, and although it may seem incredible, Javascript has been around for 25 years and the web respectively 32 years. The ecosystem of Node.js is mature and supported by an active community of library developers and authors. Being so popular, it also becomes an exciting challenge for crackers.

How to Test and Delivery Secure Mobile Apps in the New Era of Finance

Today, over 90% of global internet users access the internet via a mobile device. This trend continues in the financial services industry - in a recent survey by Business Insider, nearly 80% of respondents say mobile is the primary way they access their bank account. To attract and retain customers, it’s therefore necessary for financial services organizations to deliver reliable, secure, and easy to use mobile apps.

Why Security Quality Matters - And What You Should Do About It

As more users opt to do their banking online, the cost of having an unresponsive, unreliable and feature-deficient financial application or website will have growing negative implications. In this presentation, Justin Dolly draws on experience from 20+ years as a CISO and CSO to discuss the current state of security testing. He then shares how Sauce Labs is working to make security testing more comprehensive and more efficient, to help financial services organizations deliver reliable and secure web and mobile apps, faster.

Interview with Cybersecurity Specialist Babak Pasdar, CTO of Acreto

For our latest expert interview on our blog, we’ve welcomed Babak Pasdar to share his thoughts on the topic of cybersecurity and his journey as the CTO of Acreto. Babak Pasdar is a globally recognized innovator, cybersecurity expert, author, and entrepreneur best known for his multiple innovations in the area of cloud security.