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Toughening up web and mobile application security
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In the last years, organisations with highly integrated web applications and mobile apps have been able to ride the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic better than those with a less sophisticated online
presence.
While web applications enabled many organisations to remain operational during the pandemic, they also reinforced the need for strong app security in order to avoid cyber threats and malicious actors
who wish to penetrate corporate networks.
The reality is that web applications present too easy a vulnerability point because of what different teams do - and don’t do. In this e-guide, read more about the best practices for web application security, how to balance app innovation with app security, why API security needs to be part of your defence strategy, and what are the top tools to keep your applications safe.
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The State of Cloud Native Security
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Type: Research Content
The 2024 State of Cloud-Native Security Report highlights key challenges in today's security landscape. Organizations face issues like multicloud expansion (12 providers on average) and tool sprawl (16 security tools on average).
Key findings include:
· 71% report rushed deployments causing vulnerabilities
· 100% use AI-assisted development, with 47% worried about AI code risks
· 64% experienced more data breaches last year
· 50% still use manual reviews for sensitive dataThe report discusses balancing security with development speed and adapting to AI and cloud complexities. Explore this report for insights to enhance your cloud security.
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API Security Testing – Exposing Vulnerabilities with ReadyAPI
By: SmartBear Software
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With an accelerated shift to API-based architectures, it’s important to note that APIs can provide the easiest access point for a hacker who wants your data.
API breaches are affecting companies of all sizes, and as more services handle sensitive data, these endpoints become even more valuable targets for hackers.
So how can you secure your APIs and keep your sensitive data safe?
This e-book offers an overview on how to protect your APIs:
• How hackers leverage APIs
• What is API security and how to protect your APIs
• API security best practices
• How ReadyAPI secures APIs
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In this week's Computer Weekly, Windows is still the most-used operating system in enterprises – we look at where Microsoft aims to take it next. We examine some of the key questions for CIOs for their 2021 IT strategy. And we analyse the best practice in preventing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Read the issue now.
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Email is notoriously susceptible to attacks, making email security a continuing necessity for organizations. In order to make sense of a crowded and complex market, this Omnia Universe report breaks down the most important information about the landscape as a whole, as well as leading vendors. Read on to learn more.
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Technical guide: How to strengthen Microsoft email with human-centric security
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Microsoft 365 faces rising email threats as a leading cloud platform. This eBook details tips for enhancing security with email gateways and API solutions to combat phishing, BEC, and ransomware. Discover how to apply a multi-layered email security strategy before threats reach inboxes and how to enhance your Microsoft 365 environment.
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In this buyer's guide, Computer Weekly offers advice on making cloud security choices, looks at how to guard against DDoS attacks, and finds out Amazon's approach to building secure cloud products.
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The future of API management: Key trends for IT leaders
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As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, API management has become increasingly complex. IT leaders must navigate an evolving landscape where efficiency, security, and modernisation intersect. This e-guide explores API management trends, including the challenges of API security, and the impact of genAI.
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Supply chain attacks have long been a concern in cyber security circles as it can be difficult to enforce security measures for suppliers and partners. In this e-guide, find out why supply chain attacks are intensifying amid the pandemic, how companies are responding to the attacks and what else organisations can do to disrupt the cyber kill chain.
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Discover proven strategies for successful API development
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This e-book explores API development challenges and best practices, focusing on a design-first approach, standardization, version control, and security. It shows how SmartBear API Hub offers a centralized platform for collaboration, documentation, and testing to enhance workflows and API quality. Read to transform your API strategy and innovate.
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Benefits of Application Detection and Response (ADR) for your firm
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This white paper explores the need for Application Detection and Response (ADR) to protect modern applications and APIs. ADR provides continuous visibility, real-time threat detection, and automated response to secure the application layer. Read the white paper to learn how ADR can enhance your security posture and drive innovation.
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How Harmony Email & Collaboration (HEC) API prevents email threats
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In March, Microsoft disclosed the CVE-2023- 23307 vulnerability, a threat impacting Outlook with a 9.8 CVSS Rating. Download this white paper to see how Checkpoint’s Harmony Email & Collaboration (HEC) API can prevent malicious emails from reaching the inbox.
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Secure your web apps and APIs with these best practices
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Strategies to Secure Web Applications and APIs: Enterprise Strategy Group research
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Application environments are increasingly complex, with web apps cloud-resident, containerized, and API-driven. This has led to security challenges like tool sprawl, bot attacks, and DDoS. Learn how organizations are consolidating web application protection in this e-book.
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Application protection tools and requirements: Enterprise Strategy Group research
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This Enterprise Strategy Group eBook examines how evolving web application environments have increased security challenges. It explores trends in DDoS, bot, and API attacks, and the need for consolidated web application protection. Read the eBook to learn how to better secure your web applications and APIs.
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What to look for in an email security provider
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Computer Weekly – 4 October 2022: Putting APIs to work
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The Threat Prevention Buyer's Guide
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This Threat Prevention Buyer's Guide explores the evolving security landscape, emphasizing the need for cloud-native sandboxing that can detect and prevent unknown threats inline without disrupting user productivity. Learn how to choose the right cloud sandbox solution. Read the full buyer's guide.
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Infographic: 5 cybersecurity predictions for 2022
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Cybercrime showed no sign of slowing down in 2021 and enterprises continue to fall victim to cyberattacks, with gangs targeting larger organizations with increasingly large demands. In good news, we can always take stock of the recent past and know what to prepare for. In this infographic, we point out five forecasts for cybersecurity in 2022.
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CW APAC October 2023 – Buyer’s guide to IAM
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Identity access management tools are proving pivotal in the race to outwit cyber criminals. In this handbook, focused on IAM in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly takes a closer look at their capabilities, CyberArk's growth, the uses of automation and how ForgeRock enhances user experience.
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Computer Weekly – 20 July 2021: Ripe for change – mixing digital innovation with traditional winemaking
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In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how global winemaker Concha y Toro uses the latest tech to enhance 150-year old traditional processes. Pharma giant GSK explains how an API strategy is changing its business model. And we talk to retailers using video technology to bridge the gap between in-store and online selling. Read the issue now.
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The 2025 Software Supply Chain Security Report
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Computer Weekly – 19 September 2023: Securing Eurovision's online voting system against cyber attacks
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