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Security Boulevard
Sean Dillingham, Director of Product Design at Signal Sciences, has a mission: to make the best application security product on the planet. Sean joined the company in 2016 and has seen the product grow in breadth and depth while the company tripled in size. During that time, Sean has grown the design team to encompass multiple disciplines: product design, content strategy, and UX engineering. We sat down with Sean to talk about his vision for the role of design in security.
Security Boulevard
Virtual Patches: Security Duct Tape Let’s get serious for a minute. Virtual Patching is Cyber duct tape. Originally coined by Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) vendors years ago, Virtual Patching has been known by different names including “External Patching” and “Just-in-time Patching.” Regardless of naming convention we’d like to provide our customers with a behind the scenes peek of how we develop virtual patches at Signal Sciences.
Security Boulevard
The Challenge of Limited Web Layer Attack Visibility Over the past decade we’ve seen companies of all sizes and government agencies fall victim to attacks that have led to massive data breaches. And there’s no denying the adverse impact on organizations after a breach: the Ponemon Institutes’ Cost of a Data Breach Study found the global average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million. The average cost for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information is $148.
Security Boulevard
Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of support for Envoy. Signal Sciences is the first next-gen WAF to provide Layer 7 protection for Envoy routed microservices architectures, with no code changes required. This new integration further validates our ability to protect our customers’ apps, APIs and microservices, wherever they run them.
Security Boulevard
Today we are proud to announce the launch of the new Signal Sciences Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployment option for our award-winning WAF and RASP solution. As the fastest growing web application security company in the world, we know organizations must quickly detect and stop web application layer attacks wherever their apps, APIs, or microservices operate—whether that be in the cloud, serverless instances, containers, on-premise, or a hybrid of these.
Security Boulevard
Human nature can be very ugly to witness, especially when the resulting damage is self-inflicted. The reality behind the prevalence of account takeover is simple human nature: despite the availability of password managers that can generate strong passwords, store them, and enter them at time of login, consumers continue to reuse the same password across many different websites.
Security Boulevard
The more things change in life, the more they stay the same. A cliche? Perhaps, but that truth is proven to a certain extent through the results of the 2019 DevSecOps Community Report. The sixth edition of this annual report contains responses to 41 questions from over 5,500 IT professionals across from a dozen industries from finance to media to healthcare.
Security Boulevard
With Internet-exposed web applications, prompt mitigation of CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is critical. When a new CVE has been announced the response drill is all too familiar to InfoSec teams. Here’s how the overall response usually breaks down: The team evaluates the details of the CVE to determine if any of their applications are impacted. In many cases, it’s a scramble to try and discover if the vulnerable framework or code is even being used in their environment.
Security Boulevard
As a customer-focused organization, we listen carefully to how organizations are dealing with Digital Transformation, especially in regards to how those initiatives are both impacting their overall business and security strategy and planning.
Security Boulevard
A not so long time ago in a datacenter not so far away, security used to be an afterthought. It was not only an afterthought, but it was typically a secondary responsibility for somebody who didn’t even have the word “security” in their title. Today, you’ll be hard pressed to find a company that isn’t at least thinking about security (we do still have a way to go), and many companies now have dedicated security teams and roles, including executive-level roles and responsibilities.
Communicating animation slides
Animation is key component of beautiful and useful product design. Salesforce, Google, and IBM all feature motion design in their design systems, and there’s every reason you should, too. When designers and developers agree upon constraints, they can create UI components faster and present a unified, polished look and feel users appreciate. Communicating animation is all about identifying patterns and setting boundaries and behavior expectations.
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