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06/13/2024

Microsoft’s Brad Smith acknowledges past security failures, outlines new initiatives

Not everyone was as harsh on Microsoft’s previous mistakes. Jeff Williams, co-founder and chief technology officer at application security software platform provider Contrast Security Inc., noted that “while it’s pretty obvious in hindsight that they made a mistake, I think commentators are judging them without seeing the whole picture.”
“The unfortunate reality is that software is far more complex than most people understand,” he said. “A single application is built from dozens of source code repos, hundreds of open-source libraries, multiple application frameworks, server software and often multiple language platforms. And Microsoft has tens of thousands of applications, each of which has vulnerabilities reported all the time by tools, penetration testers, customers and more.”

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith acknowledges past security failures, outlines new initiatives

08/17/2021

NIST Misses Opportunity With New 'Minimum Standard' for Software Security Testing

The agency's response to President Biden's executive order creates serious, unresolved questions across the required techniques.

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08/09/2021

Contrast Security Available In Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Contrast Security is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and the newly announced Microsoft Azure Sentinel Solutions.

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06/21/2021

7 ways technical debt increases security risk

Shoddily developed and deployed projects can leave your enterprise vulnerable to attacks. Here's how to stop technical debt from sending your organization to the cyber-poorhouse.

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06/11/2021

“Contrast Scan revolutionizes static application security testing”

Contrast Security announced Contrast Scan, a new tool that will help teams improve team’s security by quickly finding and identifying vulnerabilities and insecure code. 

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06/10/2021

Contrast Security Extends DevSecOps Platform With Revolutionary Technology To Find Vulnerabilities That Matter 10x Faster

Breakthrough pipeline-native code analysis security testing with Contrast Scan is now available with the Contrast Application Security Platform for complete coverage of the DevSecOps life cycle

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06/10/2021

Contrast Security extends DevSecOps platform

Contrast Security extends DevSecOps platform.

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06/10/2021

Technology Finds Vulnerabilities 10x Faster

Pipeline-native code analysis security testing provides complete coverage of the DevOps lifecycle.

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06/10/2021

SD Times news digest: Lightbend Akka Serverless, Contrast Scan, and GrapeCity announces table support for SpreadJS

Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a cloud-native development platform-as-a-service.

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06/10/2021

Contrast Security Launches Contrast Scan

Contrast Security announced the release of Contrast Scan that revolutionizes static application security testing (SAST) 

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06/09/2021

AppSec in Financial Services – Jeff Williams, Contrast Security

Contrast Security’s report on AppSec in financial services is out and Jeff Williams (Co-founder & CTO) gives us the highlights. We discuss the results which conclude that we’re still releasing some very vulnerable software, and what has to change to make it more secure.

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06/02/2021

The sorry state of application security in financial services

Two things jump out on first reading of Contrast Security’s 2021 State of Application Security in Financial Services Report.

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06/02/2021

A guide to application security tools

ontrast Security achieves comprehensive security observability across the entire software life cycle

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