Retail websites and portals may face spam bots and other types of bots that can destabilise their web operations. Malicious bots are problematic for several reasons, one of the main ones being that they distort information — through automated spamming on your retail platform’s comment pages, or through malware, phishing, and other kinds of attacks.
Incorporating DevSecOps enables you to build software applications in a secured manner. This term stands for implementing a holistic approach to data security right from the beginning to the very end of your software development life cycle. While you implement DevSecOps, certain 'best practices must be adopted to optimise the process.
SAST (Static Application Security Testing), also known as the white box method of testing, involves the assessment and detection of flaws within the source code to get to the root of software performance issues. This method of vulnerability detection involves verifying whether weaknesses such as SQL injection are present in the IT network of businesses.
It is common practice for enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams to urge all users to constantly update their business software to the latest version. The biggest reason cited for such imperatives is often to improve security, and not just functionality. After all, updated software means zero security vulnerabilities, right? Not really.