Application Security News and Articles


Smart ways CISOs can do more with less

In this Help Net Security video, Jill Knesek, CISO at BlackLine, shares practical strategies for CISOs navigating tighter budgets. From maximizing existing tools and vendor partnerships to leveraging AI and making smart investments, she offers ...

Connected cars are smart, convenient, and open to cyberattacks

Consumers are concerned about vulnerabilities in their vehicles, which directly impacts purchasing behavior and brand loyalty, according to RunSafe Security. Vehicles now run on over 100 million lines of code, which is more than most fighter ...

Accelerated Polling

Product Update: Version 5.1 This release is all about helping you move faster, see more, and manage your infrastructure with greater ease. From real-time polling and smarter layout tools to expanded support for DC power and new visual ...

Response to CISA Advisory (AA25-239A): Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System

In response to the CISA Advisory (AA25-239A), AttackIQ has updated the assessment template that emulates the various post-compromise Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the Chinese adversary Salt Typhoon and released a new ...

Empower Your Team with Better Secrets Management

How Essential is Effective Secrets Management in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape? The management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets has become an increasingly important consideration. It comes as no surprise that many ...

Innovations in Managing Non-Human Identities

Why is NHI Management Crucial in Today’s Expanding Digital Landscape? Have you ever considered how the rise in online and interconnected industries could be putting your company’s systems at risk? Where rapid technological advancements ...

Airline Disruption Recovery — How Agentic Identity Keeps Travel on Track

When flights get delayed, passengers want answers fast: rebooking, hotel vouchers, refund options. Human agents can’t scale to meet this surge, but AI agents can. The challenge? Identity. The post Airline Disruption Recovery — How Agentic ...

RetailThe AI Shopping Concierge — How Retailers Can Safely Orchestrate Identity Across Agentic Workflows

Retail is moving fast into agentic AI. Imagine a shopping concierge agent that compares prices, applies loyalty discounts, and completes a purchase for you — all in seconds. This sounds like a dream for customers, but for retailers, it’s a ...

How Financial Services Can Use Agentic Identity to Stop Fraud and Streamline Loan Approvals

In financial services, every transaction is built on trust. When an AI agent acts on behalf of a customer — checking credit scores, verifying KYC documents, or submitting a loan application — identity is the control plane. Without it, the ...

BSidesSF 2025: The Power Of Persuasion: Better Security Through… Manipulation?

Creator, Author and Presenter: Nate Lee Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events ...

Enhancing Splunk Support for Workloads

2 min readThis integration brings workload identity and access data into Splunk, giving security teams clearer visibility, faster response, and stronger zero trust controls. The post Enhancing Splunk Support for Workloads appeared first on ...

CimTrak Enabling Comply-2-Connect & Continuous Compliance for Zscaler

As federal agencies accelerate Zero Trust adoption, maintaining system integrity and meeting mandates like Comply-to-Connect (C2C) is more critical than ever.  This recent webinar focuses on how combining Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange with ...

Sandboxed to Compromised: New Research Exposes Credential Exfiltration Paths in AWS Code Interpreters

In my first article on Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreters, I demonstrated that custom code interpreters can be coerced into performing AWS control plane actions by non-agentic identities. This presented a novel path to privilege escalation, ...

The Developer’s Hippocratic Oath in the Age of AI

The best software developers I've had the privilege to work with live by the principle that they have ultimate responsibility for the code we introduce. They take ownership of what they write, review, and ship. They ask questions when they don't ...

Apple Seeks Researchers for 2026 iPhone Security Program

Security researchers interested in participating in the 2026 Apple Security Research Device program can apply until October 31. The post Apple Seeks Researchers for 2026 iPhone Security Program appeared first on SecurityWeek.

BSidesSF 2025: BSidesSF 2025 – Light In The Labyrinth: Breach Path Analysis For Anyone

Creator, Author and Presenter: Parker Shelton Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s ...

Go-to-Market Strategies for Small Security Companies

Bringing a new product to market is hard—especially for small companies with limited sales resources. While large players can rely on global sales teams, most startups and scale-ups need to be smarter in how they approach their go-to-market ...

Q2 2025 Bot Attack Trends: AI Scraping, Scalper Bots, and Travel Fraud

Kasada’s Q2 2025 Threat Report breaks down the top bot attack trends: from AI scraping bots hammering infrastructure, to scalper bots flipping hype-driven inventory, to stolen travel accounts surging in underground value. Learn how adversaries ...

Why the Principle of Least Privilege Is Critical for Non-Human Identities

Overprivileged non-human identities expose enterprises to massive risk. Enforcing least privilege with automation and visibility is critical for security. The post Why the Principle of Least Privilege Is Critical for Non-Human Identities appeared ...

NYU Scientists Develop, ESET Detects First AI-Powered Ransomware

Scientists at NYU developed a ransomware prototype that uses LLMs to autonomously to plan, adapt, and execute ransomware attacks. ESET researchers, not knowing about the NYU project, apparently detected the ransomware, saying it appeared to be a ...