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DevSecOps is significantly transforming IT organizations by effectively harnessing the full potential of DevOps. Fortune 500 companies have started implementing security controls into their DevOps culture, procedures, and tools with an approach popularly known as ‘DevSecOps.’ With the popularity of DevSecOps proliferating, businesses are more likely to implement threat modeling, risk assessment, and security automation into DevOps environment. DevSecOps enhances …

Security is paramount for modern networks, and a Firewall helps inject security by filtering the traffic passing back and forth to a network or a system. This is the reason that Firewalls are widely regarded as the first line of defense. Modern Firewalls provide multiple security features and help organizations and individuals set parameters and create different logical security zones …

Fuzzing or Fuzz testing is increasingly getting popular and is used and advocated by some of the most reputed organizations, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and IBM. In this post, we will do a deep dive around what is Fuzzing, its advantages, disadvantages, and the tools used for Fuzzing. Industry bodies & regulatory agencies requiring or recommending fuzz testing include …

Cookies, also known as “Web Cookies” or “HTTP Cookies”, are widely used across the Internet since their inception in 1994. They were invented by a 23-year-old computer programmer Lou Montulli in 1994 when he was working with Netscape. In this post, we will take a deep dive into the functioning of cookies, privacy concerns, security risks & compliances. One key …

Cybercrimes are on the rise, and it’s comforting to know that there are methods to protect network security from the prying eyes of Cybercriminals as there are ways of trying to penetrate it. In this post, we will delve deeper into what is encryption and the types of encryption. Cybersecurity and protecting data are becoming more critical every day. Sectors …