It's been 18 years since OWASP first published their list of Top 10 Web Application Security Risks in 2003. It wouldn't be unreasonable to think it would have been possible to solve web application security problems in that time frame.  Yet, attacks continue to happen, and successfully target vulnerabilities in web applications.

Security practitioners are under the constant need to keep up to date and continue their learning, just to keep up with the ever changing tactics of cyber criminals.  It's one of the reasons, to keep an eye out for useful  books to enhance and broaden our knowledge base.  A recent article covered useful application security books available on Amazon.  The article covers 4 useful books for application security, and the books cover a wide range of topics from traditional application security to penetration testing and DevOps.

Organizations have seen a dramatic shift towards digital transformation in recent years, driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the work from home phenomenon.  Part of that transformation included a shift to an increased use of applications in and across the cloud.  Applications store, process and exchange sensitive data belonging to the organization, making application security mission critical.  Juniper Networks has made application security a core tenet of the Juniper Experience-First Networking philosophy, first with a partnership and integration with K2’s Workload Protection Platform back in February of 2020 and this week by expanding the Juniper/K2 partnership, by leveraging K2 Cyber Security’s technology as part of Juniper’s launch of Juniper Cloud Workload Protection.