Posts tagged Application Security

Great Barrier Grief: How to Break Through Bottlenecks with Automated AppSec

In our brand-new podcast, Security Nation, Zate Berg of Indeed.com explains how he avoided making his team an engineering bottleneck through automated appsec.

7 min Application Security

Hidden Helpers: Security-Focused HTTP Headers

This blog includes real-world scenarios in which attackers can manipulate unsecured HTTP headers and how to prevent your organization from falling victim.

4 min InsightAppSec

How InsightAppSec Can Help You Improve Your Approach to Application Security

In this post, we’ll explore why modern apps require modern testing and how our DAST tool, InsightAppSec, is leading the way with the most sought-after needs for application security teams.

5 min Application Security

How to Choose the Right Application Security Tool for Your Organization

In this post, we’re taking a look at the various application security testing technologies and how to determine which is best for your organization.

5 min Application Security

5 Considerations When Creating an Application Security Program

In this blog, we explain how to address application security within your organization and how this translates into building better code.

3 min Application Security

Single-Page Applications: The Journey So Far

While modern web application technology has made apps more useful, it's also made them harder to secure.

1 min Application Security

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Web Application Security Provider, tCell

Today, Rapid7 announced the acquisition of tCell, a leading provider of web application threat defense and monitoring. We are so excited to have tCell join the Rapid7 family!

4 min Application Security

How to Defend Against Magecart Using CSP

In this blog, we explain how you can defend against Magecart credit card skimming attacks by using HTTP's Content Security Policy.

5 min InsightAppSec

New Features: Rapid7 Launches Public API For InsightAppSec

Rapid7 is pleased to announce the newest addition to your application security toolkit on the Rapid7 Insight platform: the public API in our DAST solution, InsightAppSec.

2 min Application Security

The Newegg Breach: PCI Means Nothing to Magecart

Both the British Airways and Newegg breaches occurred at sites that followed data security rules but were not protected against attacks like Magecart.

3 min Application Security

In Our Customers’ Words: Why Mastering Application Security Basics Matters

In a recent conversation with a Rapid7 application security customer, I was reminded how much of a security practitioner’s day can be consumed by troubleshooting buggy tools and manually executing the same tasks over and over again (needlessly, may I add). As much as we’d like to think that security professionals’ time is being efficiently utilized, oftentimes inadequate tools, a lack of automation, and organizational silos impede SecOps-driven [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/secops/] progress

2 min Application Security

New InsightAppSec Releases: Compliance Reports and the AppSec Toolkit

Things are always brewing in Rapid7 product development. Today, we’re excited to announce several exciting new features in InsightAppSec, our cloud-powered application security testing solution for modern web apps [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightappsec/]. These include: * Custom reports for PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and OWASP 2017 compliance requirements * PDF report generation * The Rapid7 AppSec Toolkit * Macro Recorder * Traffic Viewer * RegEx Builder * Swagger/Rest API Utilit

4 min Application Security

3 Ways to Accelerate Web App Security Testing

It used to be that web application security testing [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/application-security/] was the job of just the security team. Today, it is becoming a much more integrative function, especially for organizations who have adopted DevOps. Development cycles have become shorter and features are released more frequently for companies to stay competitive. Trouble is, with shorter development cycles, security needs a way to keep up. After all, there’s little value in running fast

2 min InsightAppSec

How to Scan Your Own Application with the InsightAppSec Free Trial

We think this is pretty sweet news. You asked, we built it—now you can scan one of your own applications with an InsightAppSec trial! But before you start scanning your own application with the InsightAppSec free trial [https://www.rapid7.com/try/insightappsec], you’ll need to validate your application’s domain. This requires adding a custom-generated meta tag to your application’s root path. Let’s get started. When adding your app to the InsightAppSec free trial, you’ll be given an option to