Wiz acquired application security posture management startup Dazz for $450 million to provide enterprises with a unified code-to-cloud solution. CEO Merav Bahat highlights how this partnership will streamline vulnerability management and strengthen remediation capabilities for global organizations.
Melina Scotto Mastin, an accomplished CISO and CyberEdBoard member, shared how her journey from network engineering to CISO shaped her leadership style. She emphasized collaborative cybersecurity approaches, advocating for “shift-left” practices that integrate security early in projects.
By buying DAST provider Probely, Snyk bolsters its platform with advanced API security testing for early SDLC stages. This acquisition aims to help developers identify and reduce vulnerabilities in AI-driven and API-heavy applications. Full integration into Snyk's platform is slated for early 2025.
Zenity has closed a $38 million Series B round to advance its agentic AI security platform and extend its no-code and low-code application support. With investment from Third Point Ventures and DTCP, the funding enables Zenity to cater to clients in sectors like financial services and healthcare.
With Insight Partners as majority owner, Detectify plans to combine application security and attack surface management capabilities. Insight's purchase supports a renewed focus on R&D and engagement with application security professionals in the U.S. and Northern Europe, Detectify’s core markets.
A $40 million Series B investment will support Socket in rapidly scaling its team and product development. Following a 400% revenue increase, the company plans to build on its success by expanding its application security offerings and enterprise support for more programming languages.
As API adoption expands, organizations face unique security risks. Traditional website protection measures fall short, leaving businesses vulnerable to authentication and authorization abuses, said Richard Meeus, director of security technology and strategy for EMEA at Akamai.
Securing business applications such as ERP, HCM, and CRM is a critical, yet often overlooked, component of enterprise security. These applications are at the heart of your operations and carry sensitive data, making them prime targets for both internal and external threats. Without strong security measures in place,...
Sonar has integrated Structure 101's design expertise into its platform, enhancing code architecture and reducing dependency issues. This update helps developers streamline workflows and minimize long-term software evolution costs, ensuring good code management across multiple programming languages.
CEO Jason Schmitt explains the rationale behind the revival of the Black Duck brand following Francisco Partners and Clearlake's $2.1 billion acquisition and discusses the future of the company, focusing on profitable growth, application security challenges and the role of AI in code generation.
Hellman & Friedman has met with several investments banks in recent weeks and will choose one to run the sale process for Paramus, New Jersey-based Checkmarx, in which it hopes to get at least $2.5 billion, Calcalist reported. The private equity firm bought Checkmarx for $1.15 billion in April 2020.
AI-assisted coding tools can speed up code production but often replicate existing vulnerabilities when built on poor-quality code bases. Snyk's Randall Degges discusses why developers must prioritize code base quality to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of using AI tools.
APIs are the connections that make digital business happen. Companies on average rely on more than 15,000 APIs, but these interfaces pose security risks. In this "Deep Dive" special report, ISMG's Anna Delaney explores how security leaders are tackling API security.
Trail of Bits' Michael Brown explores the dual challenges of applying AI and ML to cybersecurity and securing these evolving technologies themselves. He discusses the complementary nature of traditional and AI/ML-based approaches and highlights the pressing need for secure development life cycles.
The recent CrowdStrike outage has forced CISOs to rethink their approach to software updates and security practices. David Brumley, CEO of Mayhem Security, discusses why thorough code analysis, staged rollouts and stress testing are crucial for ensuring software reliability.
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