A new article in Dark Reading discusses the "4 Ways CISOs Can Strengthen Their Security Resilience." The article caught my attention because one of the 4 areas was to "Secure Workloads and Kubernetes Environments." I was surprised by the inclusion of this requirement not because it isn't important, but because it wasn't just considered a given in every organization today.

Forbes Magazine recently ran an article titled "If Your Cloud Security Is Static, You May Miss Indicators of Attack."  The premise of the article, that organizations are using outdated tools to address a growing and quickly changing part of their application infrastructure, namely the cloud.

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report is probably one of the most widely read reports in cyber security.  Verizon released their 2021 edition of the report on May 13, 2021.

TechTarget recently ran an interview with "Web Application Security" author Andrew Hoffman, who explained the importance of a secure web application architecture and how to achieve it through collaboration between software and security engineers.

A recent Ponemon study found that 71% of IT professionals prefer to use best-of-breed security solutions rather than get all of their security tools from a single vendor.  This finding is especially important in the light of recent security architectures, especially SASE and Zero Trust.  

An ESG report on Modern Application Development Security released in August of 2020 found that 60 percent of organizations had experienced an attack on an OWASP Top 10 vulnerability in the prior 12 months.

A report from Acunetix, The Invicti AppSec Indicator, Spring 2021 Edition: Acunetix Web Vulnerability Report, came out with the conclusion that Web Application Security was a victim of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. 

A new report, the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021, surveyed over 6,000 companies in the U.S. and Europe and found that the number of businesses targeted by cyber criminals in the past year increased from 38% to 43%, with over a quarter of those targeted (28%) experiencing five attacks or more, 

A new report from Synopsys examined audit data from 1,500 + commercial codebases to examine how organizations are using open source code.  The past year with the COVID pandemic saw a significant increase from last year's report, with the number of open source vulnerabilities in codebases increasing from 75% to 84%.