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https://youtu.be/YraPL_NGmcs
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https://youtu.be/YraPL_NGmcs
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In the cloud-first era, application development for SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure AD requires strong working knowledge of modern authentication and authorization techniques across multiple platforms. in this deep-dive session, developers will learn how to create secure, cloud-ready applications using OAuth, ADAL, and Azure AD to communication with the Microsoft Graph, SharePoint and other cloud-connected services.
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Next, historical data from the fifteen remediation projects is presented. This data consists of the average cost to remediate specific classes of vulnerabilities – cross-site scripting, SQL injection and so on – as well as the overall project composition to demonstrate the percentage of time spent on actual fixes as well as the percentages of time spent on other supporting activities such as environment setup, testing and verification and deployment. The data on the remediation of specific vulnerabilities allows for a comparison of the relative difficulty of remediating different vulnerability types. The data on the overall project composition can be used to determine the relative “efficiency” of different projects.
Finally, analysis of the data is used to create a model for estimating remediation projects so that organizations can create realistic estimates in order to make informed remediate/do not remediate decisions. In addition, characteristics of the analyzed projects are mapped to project composition to demonstrate best practices that can be used to decrease the cost of future remediation efforts.
Test Environment Management (TEM) is a function in the software delivery process which aids the software testing cycle by providing a validated, stable and usable test-environment to execute the test scenarios or replicate bugs.
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Vulnerability Management: What You Need to Know to Prioritize RiskAlienVault
Abstract:
While vulnerability assessments are an essential part of understanding your risk profile, it's simply not realistic to expect to eliminate all vulnerabilities from your environment. So, when your scan produces a long list of vulnerabilities, how do you prioritize which ones to remediate first? By data criticality? CVSS score? Asset value? Patch availability? Without understanding the context of the vulnerable systems on your network, you may waste time checking things off the list without really improving security.
Join AlienVault for this session to learn:
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*Vulnerability scores and how to interpret them
*Best practices for prioritizing vulnerability remediation
*How threat intelligence can help you pinpoint the vulnerabilities that matter most
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According to Milroy, an organization should develop its own vulnerability management baselines to monitor its security levels. By doing so, Milroy said an organization can launch and control vulnerability management systems successfully. In addition, Milroy pointed out that vulnerability management problems occasionally will arise, but a well-prepared organization will be equipped to handle such issues: “Problems are going to happen … You have to work with your people. This can translate to any tool that you’re putting in place. Make sure your people have plans for what happens when it goes wrong, because it’s going to [happen] every single time.”
Milroy also noted that having actionable vulnerability management data is important for organizations of all sizes. If an organization evaluates its vulnerability management processes regularly, Milroy said, it can collect data and use this information to improve its security: “The simplest rule of thumb for vulnerability management, click the report, hand the report to someone. Don’t ever do that. There is no such thing as a report from a tool that you can just click and hand to someone until you first tune it and pare it down.”
- See more at: http://www.argylejournal.com/chief-information-security-officer/enterprise-vulnerability-managementsecurity-incident-response-derek-milroy-is-security-architect-u-s-cellular-corporation/#sthash.Buh6CzLS.dpuf
Ponemon Institute Reviews Key Findings from “2017 State of Mobile & IoT Appli...IBM Security
Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) applications continue to be released at a rapid pace. But organizations’ rush-to-release of new applications to meet rapidly-evolving user demand can jeopardize the applications’ level of security protection.
View these slides from our January 18th webinar, where Larry Ponemon from the Ponemon Institute, Arxan Technologies and IBM Security review findings from our brand-new mobile & IoT application security study.
Recent ECB/ EBA regulations how they will impact European banks in 2016IBM Security
View on demand webinar: https://securityintelligence.com/events/recent-ecbeba-regulations-how-they-will-impact-european-banks-in-2016/
The recent European Central Bank’s (ECB) Recommendations for the Security of Internet Payments and European Banking Authority (EBA) regulations have mandated numerous requirements for European banks to enhance online fraud prevention practices. Most European banks are required to include additional capabilities in risk analysis, malware protection, and strong authentication to meet the security requirements.
Assaf Regev, Product Marketing Manager, IBM Security Trusteer, will expand on how the new regulations will impact the European financial sector and what your bank will need to do to not only comply but also to be more secure.
The key requirements for effective and sustainable online banking security as outlined by the ECB/EBA
The need for layered security – why present controls may not be enough
How IBM can help meet the ECB/EBA recommendations on time and on budget, while minimizing deployment, management and operational costs
Best practices for mobile enterprise security and the importance of endpoint ...Chris Pepin
With the rapid growth of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise, CIOs are struggling to secure mobile devices and data across a wide range of mobile platforms. Attend this session to learn best practices around defining a mobile security policy, educating employees about safe computing practices, and deploying a secure technology framework. We'll discuss the benefits of endpoint management solutions like IBM Endpoint Manager in the context of a comprehensive enterprise deployment encompassing smartphones, tablets, PCs and servers.
Pulse 2013 - Mobile strategy and user centered design, an IBM interactive primerChris Pepin
IBM Interactive is one of the largest interactive agencies in the world. Recently named among the top five digital marketing agencies in the world by Gartner, it is home to IBM's Mobile Practice services. Come and learn how IBM Interactive works with clients on mobile strategy, user-centered design and mobile strategy realization that will accelerate your mobile application creation, and delight your customers with compelling user experiences on the fastest-growing, user-facing device on the planet.
Introducing IBM Cloud Security Enforcer, CASB, IDaaS and Threat PreventionIBM Security
View on demand webinar:
https://securityintelligence.com/events/introducing-ibm-cloud-security-enforcer-casb-idaas-and-threat-prevention/
Cloud Security Enforcer is the first solution to combine Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality with identity services (IDaaS), policy enforcement and dynamic threat prevention intelligence into a single integrated SaaS solution.
Join Daniel Wolff, Program Director Cloud Security Product Management, and Gonzalo de la Hoz, IAM European Segment Leader, as we discuss how IBM Cloud Security Enforcer has integrated multiple technologies crucial to enabling safe adoption of cloud applications in the enterprise:
- Cloud application discovery and risk
- Cloud identity services and application on-boarding
- Closing the mobile device gap
- Policy enforcement and threat prevention
IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (X-Force IRIS) can help you cross the incident response chasm, build a holistic program and better prepare you to deal with and thwart the security challenges your organization faces.
To learn more, read the white paper on best practices for improving your incident response processes: http://ibm.co/2lLdC2k.
Retail Mobility, Productivity and SecurityIBM Security
Displaying key findings from the Mobility Trends in the Retail Sector research report prepared by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and IBM, this infographic affords valuable context to retail organizations in planning a better tomorrow.
This white paper endeavors to compare the traditional Threat identification techniques and the challenges they pose as they are applied into current product designs. It also proposes the key elements to consider while designing new threat identification solutions.
How to integrate mobile security into app developmentAppinventiv
security integration for mobile app development is of utmost importance. Here are certain things, which should be considered at the time of integrating security into app development.
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Secure Application Design
This chapter covers the important security considerations that should be part of the development cycle of web applications, client applications, and remote administration, illustrating potential security issues and how to solve them.
After an application is written, it is deployed into an environment of some sort, where it remains for an extended period of time with only its original features to defend it from whatever threats, mistakes, or misuse it encounters. A malicious agent in the environment, on the other hand, has that same extended period of time to observe the application and tailor its attack techniques until something works. At this point, any number of undesirable things could happen. For example, there could be a breach, there could be a vulnerability disclosure, malware exploiting the vulnerability could be released, or the exploit technique could be sold to the highest bidder.
Most of these undesirable things eventually lead to customers who are unhappy with their software vendors, regardless of whether or not the customers were willing to pay for security before the incident occurred. For that reason, security is becoming more important to organizations ...
Gartner Research Director Thomas Murphy notes that software quality is often a poor misnomer for the current practice of risk management applied by most companies. Many organizations use risk management to mitigate delivery risk, typically at the expense of application quality. Learn about the importance of focusing on application structural quality to reduce business disruption risk in this Gartner-CAST paper.
Infrasructure As Code: Fueling the Fire For Faster Application Delivery - Whi...David J Rosenthal
To achieve success in today’s digital age, enterprises mustbe customer-obsessed and systematically reinvent themselves to serve informed and empowered customers. Leading companies rely heavily on software applications to win, serve, and retain these customers. Software creates better customer experiences, and delivering innovative software faster gives companies a distinct competitive advantage.
But faster delivery of applications is challenging for both infrastructure and operations (i.e., Ops) professionals and application development and delivery (i.e., Dev) teams. Both are under pressure to increase speed without compromising quality. To maximize their efforts, neither team can go it
alone — they must work together to find a common set of processes and tools that help them both. This is the core of the DevOps movement.
Information Technology Risk ManagementGlen Alleman
The concept of managing the development or deployment of an Information Technology (IT) system using deterministic, linear, and causal analysis contains several pitfalls. As IT systems grow in complexity, the interaction between their components becomes non–linear and indeterminate, creating many opportunities for failure.
Embrace DevSecOps: Integrating security into DevOps ensures rapid app delivery without compromising safety. From planning to maintenance, prioritize security at every step!
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Application security teams are outnumbered. Even in security-conscious environments, application developers often exceed application security professionals by a ratio of 100:1. In addition, the push for digital transformation is accelerating the pace of development – exacerbating these challenges. One technique forward-looking security teams have adopted to stay afloat is to deploy security champions into development teams throughout the organization. This webinar looks at different models for standing up security champion initiatives and relates Denim Group’s experiences helping organizations craft and staff these programs.
The As, Bs, and Four Cs of Testing Cloud-Native ApplicationsDenim Group
Security assessments are a critical part of any security program. Being able to identify – and communicate about – vulnerabilities systems is required to get vulnerabilities prioritized for remediation. For web and mobile applications, assessment methodologies are reasonably straightforward and established. However, for cloud-native applications, the combination of new technologies and architectural elements has introduced questions about how to scope, plan, and execute security assessments. This presentation looks at how the assessment landscape has changed with the introduction of cloud-native applications and explores how threat modeling is central to testing their security. In addition, the “Four C’s” conceptual model for looking at cloud-native application security is introduced, including a discussion of how both automated and manual testing methodologies can be used to accomplish assessment goals. Finally, vulnerability contextualization and reporting are discussed, so that teams running cloud-native application assessments can properly characterize the results of their efforts to aid in the prioritization and remediation of identified issues.
An Updated Take: Threat Modeling for IoT SystemsDenim Group
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting and emerging area of technology allowing individuals and businesses to make radical changes to how they live their lives and conduct commerce. The challenge with this trend is that IoT devices are just computers with sensors running applications. Because IoT devices interact with our personal lives, the proliferation of these devices exposes an unprecedented amount of personal sensitive data to significant risk. In addition, IoT security is not only about the code running on the device, these devices are connected to systems that include supporting web services as well as other client applications that allow for management and reporting.
A critical step to understanding the security of any system is building a threat model. This helps to enumerate the components of the system as well as the paths that data takes as it flows through the system. Combining this information with an understanding of trust boundaries helps provide system designers with critical information to mitigate systemic risks to the technology and architecture.
This webinar looks at how Threat Modeling can be applied to IoT systems to help build more security systems during the design process, as well as how to use Threat Modeling when testing the security of IoT systems.
Continuous Authority to Operate (ATO) with ThreadFix – Bringing Commercial In...Denim Group
The tempo for software delivery to the warfighter continues to accelerate to meet the goals and demands of their missions. Pressures to rapidly build and deploy mission software drive the need to deliver new capabilities via DevSecOps pipelines. Many of the latest leading-edge DevSecOps practices draw heavily from commercial tech companies and innovative programs across DoD like Kessel Run. What are these latest trends, and how do you take advantage of them? How do you quantify the risk of microservices, new languages and frameworks, and cloud environments and still obtain authority to operate (ATO)?
The ThreadFix platform has built-in automation and orchestration capabilities to enable your teams to provide immediate feedback in the form of policy evaluation, notifications in the form of emails and automated developer defect creation, and decision-making on your CI program as scan results are generated. In addition to built-in automation, plugins and the ThreadFix API enable CI programs to seamlessly integrate security testing into existing build/release pipelines to provide evaluation of code changes directly to your development tools.
These key issue items and other trends will be discussed in this highly interactive briefing, providing critical insights on how to inject agility and responsiveness into environments that have traditionally struggled to keep pace with modern development approaches.
A New View of Your Application Security Program with Snyk and ThreadFixDenim Group
Snyk continuously monitors your application’s dependencies and lets you quickly respond when new vulnerabilities are disclosed. Threadfix allows organizations to gain true visibility into a your project’s security posture by cross referencing results on an app from multiple sources (SCA, SAST, DAST, etc.), ultimately enabling better prioritization, while Snyk focuses on remediation at the source with the automated fix pull requests. Join us to see how, together, Snyk and ThreadFix can enhance application security and prevent risks, while preserving development scale and speed.
Enabling Developers in Your Application Security Program With Coverity and Th...Denim Group
Developers need to move quickly and efficiently. Coverity’s speed, accuracy, ease of use, and scalability meet the needs of even the largest, most complex environments. ThreadFix allows you to centralize all test and vulnerability data in one place so your software security team can spend less time on manually correlating results and more time focusing on higher-level risk decisions. Join us to get a firsthand look at how Coverity and ThreadFix arm development teams with the tools they need to advance security programs in real time.
AppSec in a World of Digital TransformationDenim Group
The mandate for digital transformation is forcing companies to innovate faster in order to provide more value to customers and bring products and services to the market more quickly. Technological innovations such as the cloud, microservice architectures, and CI/CD pipelines are being adopted to support the increased pace of development and more easily address scaling requirements. This upheaval presents both risks and opportunities for security leaders. The successful leaders view this transition as a clean-slate opportunity to “get security right” and will restructure their teams and technologies to deeply-embed security throughout the new tech stack. This session will cover emerging strategies that security leaders are using to ensure they keep up with this massive industry change.
The As, Bs, and Four Cs of Testing Cloud-Native ApplicationsDenim Group
Security assessments are a critical part of any security program. Being able to identify – and communicate about – vulnerabilities systems is required to get vulnerabilities prioritized for remediation. For web and mobile applications, assessment methodologies are reasonably straightforward and established. However, for cloud-native applications, the combination of new technologies and architectural elements has introduced questions about how to scope, plan, and execute security assessments. This presentation looks at how the assessment landscape has changed with the introduction of cloud-native applications and explores how threat modeling is central to testing their security. In addition, the “Four C’s” conceptual model for looking at cloud-native application security is introduced, including a discussion of how both automated and manual testing methodologies can be used to accomplish assessment goals. Finally, vulnerability contextualization and reporting are discussed, so that teams running cloud-native application assessments can properly characterize the results of their efforts to aid in the prioritization and remediation of identified issues.
Enabling Developers in Your Application Security Program With Coverity and Th...Denim Group
Developers need to move quickly and efficiently. Coverity’s speed, accuracy, ease of use, and scalability meet the needs of even the largest, most complex environments. ThreadFix allows you to centralize all test and vulnerability data in one place so your software security team can spend less time on manually correlating results and more time focusing on higher-level risk decisions. Join us to get a firsthand look at how Coverity and ThreadFix arm development teams with the tools they need to advance security programs in real time.
AppSec in a World of Digital TransformationDenim Group
The mandate for digital transformation is forcing companies to innovate faster in order to provide more value to customers and bring products and services to the market more quickly. Technological innovations such as the cloud, microservice architectures, and CI/CD pipelines are being adopted to support the increased pace of development and more easily address scaling requirements. This upheaval presents both risks and opportunities for security leaders. The successful leaders view this transition as a clean-slate opportunity to “get security right” and will restructure their teams and technologies to deeply-embed security throughout the new tech stack. This session will cover emerging strategies that security leaders are using to ensure they keep up with this massive industry change.
Many organizations have only a passing understanding of the scope of their application portfolios and how these assets are exposed to the Internet and other potentially dangerous networks. This puts them in a risky situation where they have an attack surface that is unknown and unmanaged, often resulting in serious vulnerabilities being exposed indefinitely. This presentation looks at several tools and methods that can be used to enumerate enterprise application assets – including web applications, mobile applications, and web services. The discussion covers several open source application asset identification tools and compares their effectiveness. Finally, a framework for ongoing application asset discovery and enumeration is presented so that security managers can embark on a structured program to characterize their risk exposure due to their enterprise attack surface.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
2. Executive Summary
The security industry often pays a tremendous amount of attention to finding security vulnerabilities.
This is done via code review, penetration testing and other assessment methods. Unfortunately,
finding vulnerabilities is only the first step toward actually addressing the associated risks, and
addressing these risks is arguably the most critical step in the vulnerability management process.
Complicating matters is the fact that most application security vulnerabilities cannot be fixed by
members of the security team but require code-level changes in order to successfully address the
underlying issue. Therefore, security vulnerabilities need to be communicated and transferred to
software development teams and then prioritized and added to their workloads. This paper ex-
amines steps required to remediate software-level vulnerabilities properly, and recommends best
practices organizations can use to be successful in their remediation efforts.
For more resources, visit www.denimgroup.com/remediation.
3. Table of Contents
Best Practices Overview ..................................................................................................5
I Inception ......................................................................................................................5
II Planning .......................................................................................................................6
Calculate Risk .........................................................................................................6
Agree on Fix and Confirmation Methods .................................................................8
Use Standards ........................................................................................................ 8
Fix Vulnerabilities Completely ................................................................................. 9
Use Manual and Automated Testing Appropriately ................................................ 9
Determine Level of Effort ......................................................................................10
Schedule (for Waterfall Projects) ...........................................................................12
Schedule (for Agile Projects) ..................................................................................12
III Execution ..................................................................................................................12
Fix Vulnerabilities ..................................................................................................13
Development Environment ................................................................................... 13
Fixing Technical Vulnerabilities ............................................................................. 13
Fixing Logical Vulnerabilities ................................................................................ 14
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Confirm Fixes and General Quality Assurance ......................................................14
Deploy the Updated Application to Production .......................................................15
Remediation Metrics ......................................................................................................15
Conclusions ...................................................................................................................16
Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................16