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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day.

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For startups, trustworthy security means going above and beyond compliance standards

TechCrunch

Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. More posts by this contributor.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code.

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Driving Customer Loyalty with Secure and Modern Apps

CIO

According to a PwC report , one in three consumers (32%) say they will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. A pod-based team structure can be set up where you have all the stakeholders responsible for delivering the app. Leveraging the right set of technologies will be a key success criterion for such apps.

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How Developer Observability is Transforming Dev Role

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Alongside streamlined processes and collaborative efficiency, DevOps teams need real-time access to detailed, correlative, context-rich data and analytics. By understanding how observability in DevOps transforms development capabilities, you can maximize the effectiveness of your teams and your data. Let’s get into it.

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Elevate Cybersecurity with PRISMA IDs

Prisma Clud

In the cybersecurity maze, finding and addressing vulnerabilities is like chasing shadows. Every point of weakness opens a door to potential threats. For example, let’s look at issue #3555 in the github.com/gin-gonic/gin repository, which discloses a security issue. Because vulnerabilities slip through the cracks.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Critical Infrastructure Orgs Must Beware of China-backed Volt Typhoon, Cyber Agencies Warn

Tenable

critical infrastructure IT and operational technology security teams, listen up. So said cybersecurity agencies from the U.S., Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a statement. Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending February 9.