The Ultimate Guide to Application Security
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What to know about Application Security
Application Security focuses on protecting software applications from vulnerabilities and cyber threats throughout their development and operational life cycles. This critical field addresses challenges such as runtime protection, secure coding practices, DevSecOps integration, API security, cloud-native environments, and mitigating attacks like DDoS, supply chain risks, and malicious bot traffic.
Exploring the latest stories in Application Security reveals how advancements like AI and automation are enhancing threat detection, vulnerability management, and developer workflows, while highlighting ongoing risks found in mobile apps, open source components, and cloud deployments. Readers can gain insights into best practices, emerging technologies, and strategies to safeguard applications against evolving cyber threats.
Whether you’re a developer, security professional, or business leader, staying informed about Application Security developments helps in building resilient software, maintaining compliance, and protecting user data in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Application Security
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to boost AI security tools
F5 expands AI Gateway to curb costs & secure agents
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to bolster AI security tools
Menlo expands AI agent security for Copilot & Gemini
Netskope named leader in Gartner SASE & SSE reports
Featured News
Humanoid robots, 0-day defence among Info-Tech trends for '27
Agentic AI, zero-day surge, sovereign cloud, and humanoid robots will define IT strategy in 2027, Info-Tech Research Group warns.
Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
Check Point Technologies: On vigilance, Mythos and beyond
AI-driven vulnerability scanning is forcing firms to rethink complacency as Check Point says existing defences still help against Mythos.
Exclusive: Reco COO on securing the AI inside your SaaS stack
Reco COO Zoe Hillenmeyer says enterprises typically underestimate their AI agent exposure by a factor of ten and that gap is widening.
Expert Columns
When AI memory, simulation and provenance collide
Supercharged security: Cyber risk in the age of frontier AI
A strategic blueprint for governing AI-enabled software development
Your annual penetration testing is already out of date
Why ERP is not just another platform you can rebuild with AI code
As agentic development accelerates, workflow auditability becomes a bottleneck
The evolving role of the CSO: From technical guardian to business strategist
Secure by default: Moving beyond secure by design
Why the next endpoint and SASE disruption will not come from a security vendor
The security challenges in AI-assisted software development
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent Application Security News
GitLab adds enterprise controls for agentic AI tools
Regulated teams can now keep AI processing inside GitLab Dedicated, with new secret handling, spending caps and security fixes added in 19.3.
Barracuda finds average web app has 20 security flaws
Basic security lapses are leaving web apps exposed, with Barracuda saying routine misconfigurations account for most of 20 flaws per site.
Allure Security uncovers 2,200 phantom bank domains
Hundreds of users could be exposed to fake banking portals built from a low-cost template, as researchers linked 2,200 suspect domains.
Prem launches CyberScan for Bitcoin security audits
The new tool aims to catch Bitcoin software flaws between formal audits after a regression led to more than USD $116 million stolen.
ESET brings private scanning tools to AWS Marketplace
AWS customers can now buy ESET's file-scanning software through existing accounts, speeding deployment for cloud security teams across three regions.
Endor Labs adds buildless C support to AI SAST tool
Developers can now scan C code earlier in the process, as Endor Labs says its buildless AI SAST found 96 of 102 known bugs in tests.
Pathlock & mindsquare expand DACH governance access
The tie-up gives German-speaking enterprises a local route to tighter SAP access controls as support changes and cloud migration raise compliance pressure.
Sonatype warns AI is speeding software risk growth
Enterprise software teams are facing far more vulnerabilities as AI-assisted development multiplies application output and speeds exposure growth.
Google Cloud unveils AI harness that finds flaws fast
In two days, the system uncovered more than 100 critical bugs in stolen code repositories, outpacing manual review and aiding incident response.
NASA lab console flaw allows unauthorised commands
Unauthorised access could let attackers send arbitrary commands to spacecraft and instruments via NASA's AIT-GUI console, now fixed in version 2.5.2.
ArmorCode gets verified Claude access for cyber defence
Verified access to Anthropic's Claude models should sharpen ArmorCode's exploitability scoring as security teams race to cut alert noise.
Oracle launches APEX AI generator on Autonomous AI Database
The new tool aims to speed enterprise app building while keeping AI-generated outputs governable, auditable and easier to deploy safely.
AI patches fail to fix flaws, 1Password study finds
Security teams should treat AI patching with caution after 53.9% of 6,080 model-generated fixes failed or introduced new flaws.
CrowdStrike launches AI security challenge with AWS
Defenders will test prompt-injection tactics against AI agents as CrowdStrike and AWS offer USD $100,000 in prizes for a virtual red-team contest.
LevelBlue named SentinelOne remediation partner for AI
The tie-up aims to help security teams turn validated AI findings into ranked fixes before vulnerabilities pile up and attackers move first.
ServiceNow launches autonomous security suite for firms
The suite aims to cut security backlogs and tighten oversight of AI agents as companies face a surge in machine identities and fragmented tools.
Securonix expands SIEM with Sentinel & AI risk tools
Enterprises could cut SIEM data costs by up to 50% as the updated platform adds Microsoft Sentinel analytics and AI risk monitoring.
Google adds security controls for AI agents in Chrome
Browser-based AI agents will face tighter enterprise oversight as Google moves to curb data leaks and unauthorised actions in Chrome.
Tenable expands AI security coverage to Google Gemini
Security teams face a wider visibility gap as Tenable adds Google Gemini, MCP and AI coding tools to its exposure management platform.
Cyera launches tools to secure enterprise AI agents
Security teams face a sharper risk from hidden AI agents as Cyera says non-human identities in Fortune 500 companies jumped 480% in six months.