AppSec Observer

DevOpsCon keynote: CISO Brian Vlootman on defending Backbase banking applications in production

What is Automated Penetration Testing? A Complete Guide for Modern AppSec Teams

Accelerate response with Contrast Security and Datadog SIEM

Vulnerability Escape Rate: Why 17 New Vulnerabilities Per Month Demands Graph Intelligence

How Runtime Intelligence Transforms AI Vulnerability Remediation

Application Attack Patterns: Understanding the Runtime Visibility Gap

Log4j Vulnerability: Complete Guide to Detection and Protection

Contrast and Microsoft Sentinel: Closing the Application-Layer Blind Spot

How Real Teams Are Powering AI Security with the Contrast MCP Server

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Can't Keep Pace with AI-Generated Code: The Runtime Security Imperative

How Runtime Intelligence Transforms AI Vulnerability Remediation

48-Hour Case Study: Analyzing Coordinated Attacks from Mumbai, India

Slopsquatting: How Attackers Exploit AI-Generated Package Names

Contrast Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing

Contrast Security Collaborates with IBM Consulting to Tackle the Application-Layer Blind Spot

Beyond SAST & DAST: Using IAST to Pinpoint Exploitable Application Vulnerabilities

Beyond the perimeter: Bringing application context into IBM QRadar with Contrast ADR

Why Security Tool Consolidation Fails: Your Tools Can't See Where Attacks Happen

Runtime Application Security: Why EDR and WAF Can't See Application Attacks

NPM Supply Chain Hijack: How ADR Transforms Incident Response

Defending Education: How ESC-20’s Martha Gamez-Smith Is Protecting Students and Teachers from Rising Cyber Threats

July ADR Report: Concentrated, targeted attacks and a 2-million-attack surge, all stopped in real-time

New Partnership: Contrast and Sumo Logic Unite to Close the Application Layer Attack Gap

Making Sense of the SharePoint 'ToolShell' Zero-Day and Insecure Deserialization

Contrast Report: Software Under Siege 2025. What trillions of security signals teach us about today’s application and API threats

Runtime & ADR are reshaping security for applications and APIs: What CISOs should take from IDC’s commentary on Contrast

Virtual patching surges: How Contrast ADR is defending apps in real-time amid rising retail attacks

Perimeter defenses aren’t enough — Why in-app security and ADR are the future

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 06/13/25

ADR catches the SQLi, unsafe deserialization & path traversal attacks WAFs/EDRs miss

The future of AppSec is here. Contrast Northstar: Unified, real-time and AI-powered

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 06/06/25

AI's speed paradox: Security is being left behind

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/30/25

Go Agent Dev Diary: Navigating os.Root and path-traversal vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/23/25

Forrester’s 2025 SAST Landscape report explains urgency of security software

Supercharge your vulnerability remediation with Contrast MCP

Monthly ADR Report for April: 2 million attacks in a day, all blocked!

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/16/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/09/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/02/25

Fixing the application security blindspot with Contrast ADR

Research uncovers: EDR's blindness to application exploits, WAF's inability to cut through the noise

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 04/25/25

Wiz and Contrast Security join forces to deliver clear visibility into application vulnerabilities

The unseen threat: Why reactive security fails against the rising tide of zero-day attacks

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 04/18/25

From chasing dragons to streamlined incident response: Speeding up SOC threat detection while reducing frequency

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 04/11/25

Monthly ADR Report: Untrusted deserialization tops March’s application attacks chart

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 04/04/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/28/25

From chasing dragons to streamlined incident response: Speeding up SOC threat detection while reducing frequency

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/21/25

Application Detection and Response analysis: Why ADR? How ADR works and ADR benefits

The Top 6 big PCI DSS 4.0 changes and how to prepare your security teams

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/14/25

Monthly ADR Report: Application attacks jump 30%; method tampering up 800%

Software defects = potential lawsuits

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/07/25

Enhancing Application Security with Contrast ADR and Splunk

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 02/27/25

4 ways ADR will slash workload and speed incident response for IR teams

Monthly ADR Report: Attacks up month to month, but especially one app

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 02/21/25

AI Remediation: Introducing intelligent remediation guidance

How the SOC can navigate the treacherous waters of application threats with ADR

Application Detection and Response: 12 things to know about ADR

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 02/07/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 01/31/25

DORA mandates have landed: Ready for a 4-hour incident reporting window?

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 01/24/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 01/17/25

Silent but deadly: December sees deserialization attacks surge despite overall lull in app attacks

Unpacking the SEC cybersecurity reporting rules: Enhance compliance efforts and reduce risk with ADR

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 01/10/25

Experts: Why the Log4Shell Grinch is still hanging around

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 12/20/24