The application layer continues to be the most attacked and hardest to defend in the enterprise software stack. With the proliferation of tools aimed at preventing an attack, it’s no wonder the application security testing (AST) market is valued at US 4.48 billion. Forrester’s market taxonomy breaks up the application security testing tools market into two main […]
Continuous integration/continuous delivery, more commonly known as CI/CD, promises to help software companies become more agile by delivering software faster and more reliably. The goal of CI/CD is to reduce software development and delivery timelines from months or weeks down to days or even hours. It does this by pushing frequent updates and fixes regardless […]
Web Vulnerability Scanners Defined Web vulnerability scanners crawl through the pages of web applications to detect security vulnerabilities, malware, and logical flaws. They do this by generating malicious inputs and evaluating an application’s responses. Often referred to as dynamic application security testing (DAST), web vulnerability scanners are a type of black-box testing; they perform functional testing […]
DevOps is not only about software development and operations. To make complete utilization of the flexibility in DevOps approach, it is desirable for software developers to integrate IT security at every step during a software’s life cycle. It is, in essence, what DevSecOps is. Exploring Further – What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps works on the premise […]
DevSecOps has become one of the hottest buzzwords in the DevOps ecosystem over the past couple of years. In the abstract, it’s easy to understand what DevSecOps means and why people care about it: It’s a strategy that extends DevOps efficiencies to software security. But when you sit down and actually start implementing DevSecOps, things can get trickier. […]
As a programmer, you don’t need to start from scratch when you have tools designed to help you with your projects. Frameworks are software that is developed and used by developers to build applications. What is Frameworks? Since they are often built, tested, and optimized by several experienced software engineers and programmers, software frameworks are […]
PyCharm is one of the most popular Python IDEs. There is a multitude of reasons for this, including the fact that it is developed by JetBrains, the developer behind the popular IntelliJ IDEA IDE that is one of the big 3 of Java IDEs and the “smartest JavaScript IDE” WebStorm. Having the support for web […]
Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a markup language that decides the manner in which web pages or websites appear to the visitors. It helps in manipulating the colours, fonts, and layouts of various website elements. CSS also allows adding animations or effects to a website, such as animated backgrounds and click button effects. Without […]
What is Android? Android is the Linux based open-source operating system for mobile devices like smartphones & tablets. However, nowadays, many other devices are incorporating android in them to turn them into smart devices such as Smart TVs, Smart car interface for GPS, electrical appliances, etc. This software was unveiled in 2007 & the first […]
Testing is integral to modern software development. Technically, software testing is an indispensable part of the software development life cycle i.e., SDLC. Although there are very many SDLC approaches, such as Agile, DevOps, and RAD, testing is omnipresent. Interestingly, testing has its very own lifecycle, appropriately dubbed software testing life cycle. What does that suggest? It’s […]