AppSec
What Is AppSec, and Who Owns It on a Modern Team?
AppSec covers every security decision made about how software is designed, built, and shipped — but ownership is more distributed than most org charts admit.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
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AI Cyber Solutions: What Actually Works in Security
AI cyber solutions are most useful where they reduce analyst toil: triaging alerts, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and drafting remediation. Here is what to trust and what to question.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
AI Security
Software Licenses Explained: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams
Software licenses fall into a few clear buckets — permissive, copyleft, and proprietary — and knowing which is which decides what you can legally ship. Here is the map, without the legalese.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
Best Practices
What is TLS/SSL
TLS/SSL encrypts data in transit, but outdated versions and unpatched libraries like Heartbleed-era OpenSSL still expose real risk today.
Feb 17, 20266 min read
Comparisons
Snyk AppRisk: What It Actually Covers
Snyk AppRisk aggregates findings across Snyk's scanners into a single application-level risk view — here's what it covers, and what it doesn't replace.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
AppSec
Choosing an Application Security Framework
SAMM, BSIMM, NIST SSDF, and ASVS answer different questions. Here is how to pick the one that fits your team and turn it into policy your pipeline can actually enforce.
Feb 17, 20266 min read
Cloud Security
Enterprise Cloud Security: Architecture and Program Design
Enterprise cloud security fails when it is treated as a tool purchase instead of an architecture. Here is how to design the layers, the ownership model, and the program around them.
Feb 17, 20266 min read
Comparisons
Snyk's Market Trajectory Under Peter McKay
Peter McKay has led Snyk as CEO since 2020, steering it from a developer-first open-source scanning tool into a broad, AI-integrated application security platform through a string of acquisitions and a sustained enterprise push.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
Incident Analysis
UA-Parser-JS October 2021: A Deep Dive on the Attack
The ua-parser-js compromise of October 2021 paired credential theft with cryptominer and password stealer payloads. A close look at what happened and why.
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