Application Security Glossary

JavaScript Static Code Analysis

During the development lifecycle, it’s easy for security vulnerabilities to creep into your code. The best way to head this off at the pass and ensure that security remains a priority during the development life cycle is to use static … Read More

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Jenkins Static Code Analysis

Jenkins is a simple application designed to keep an eye on a series of executions in a software environment. For example – it works like ‘Cruise Control’ and offers a single simple use continuous system for integration. Developers can then … Read More

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Keylogger: The Invisible Threat

What are keyloggers? A keylogger is a small, simple application that is typically designed to run “invisibly” on a computer so as to avoid detection by the actual computer user. A keylogger does exactly as its name implies—it logs all … Read More

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KICS

The Checkmarx infrastructure-as-code engine (aptly named KICS for Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure) finds security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations in following Infrastructure as Code technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible. As the engine is capable of

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Kubernetes (K8s)

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available. The name Kubernetes originates from

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Lambda Function

Function as a Service (Faas) is the idea of running your application code via a serverless architecture and is event driven. Your application code is deployed and executed on a platform hosted and managed by the cloud provider. In the

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