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Discover how to overcome test environment challenges with a modern “environment-based” testing approach, using service virtualization and smart orchestration to mimic dependencies and test in realistic conditions early, boosting stability and coverage.
This global survey of C-level executives reveals that AI could drive billions of dollars in annual revenue worldwide — but long-term success hinges on human expertise, governance, and strategic alignment.
This guide outlines six essential questions every organization should ask to strengthen product security and prevent costly breaches. It offers clear insights on identifying common threats, integrating security into the development lifecycle, staying current with emerging risks, and equipping teams with the knowledge to build safer software. Designed to help you take proactive steps, this resource provides practical strategies to enhance your security posture and foster a culture that prioritizes secure product development.
This concise guide distills expert insights and customer experiences into seven essential steps for building an effective secure coding training program. It covers everything from planning and gathering baseline data to prioritizing communication, selecting training paths, incorporating interactive tournaments, developing Security Champions, and measuring success. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refresh your existing program, this guide offers practical advice to help you create a training initiative that drives real security improvements.
This guide breaks down the complexities of PCI DSS v4.0 compliance into six clear, actionable steps designed to help organizations meet requirements and build a strong security culture. It walks you through defining key roles, identifying knowledge gaps, enhancing code review practices, and fostering continuous learning to ensure ongoing compliance. With practical advice and a straightforward roadmap, this resource equips teams to confidently navigate PCI DSS standards and strengthen their secure development practices before the deadline.
Cybersecurity Education vs. Awareness eBook tackles a critical but often overlooked truth: secure applications start with informed developers, not just automated tools. This eBook explores why awareness alone is not enough and why real, sustained security requires deep education in secure coding practices. Drawing on insights from a roundtable of experts across industry and academia, it unpacks the difference between knowing about security and truly understanding how to build it in. If you're looking to shift from reactive security to proactive, human-centered defense, this is your guide to starting that transformation.
Discover how a leading global tech company scaled secure development without slowing innovation. This case study explores how Zoom transformed its approach to secure coding by partnering with Security Journey to deliver targeted, practical training across its fast-growing engineering team. By moving beyond basic awareness and investing in advanced education for more than 200 Security Champions, Zoom empowered developers to take ownership of security and apply what they learned directly to their work. The result was immediate impact as engineers revisited and remediated past code based on their training, proving that effective AppSec education can drive real behavior change.
Tactical AppSec: A Champions' Field Guide is a practical, developer-first handbook built for those leading the charge in secure development. Whether you're writing code, reviewing pull requests, or advocating for better security across your team, this guide gives you the tools and confidence to make a real impact. You’ll get clear, actionable strategies for threat modeling, secure code reviews, and integrating tools like SAST and DAST—without disrupting your flow. It’s not about being a security expert; it’s about becoming the go-to Champion who brings security into the heart of the dev process.
This article describes how Check Point tested the efficacy of several leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions in real-world conditions.
Tactical AppSec: An AI Security Field Guide is a no-nonsense playbook for security and tech leaders who need to get ahead of AI risk—fast. With AI already embedded across your organization, this hands-on guide helps you uncover hidden tools, map out risks, and implement practical governance without slowing innovation. Packed with clear explanations, ready-to-use templates, threat modeling tools, and discovery frameworks, it’s designed to turn uncertainty into action. Whether you're managing a single team or shaping enterprise-wide strategy, this field guide equips you to secure AI from the inside out.
Closing the Security Gap in AI Whitepaper explores the growing disconnect between rapid AI-assisted development and the security practices needed to keep pace. Based on an expert roundtable featuring voices from AppSec, AI research, and software development, this whitepaper distills key takeaways on emerging risks, secure AI usage, governance strategies, and the cultural shifts needed to embed security into everyday coding. From real-world threats to practical policy advice, it offers a concise, actionable roadmap for leaders looking to close the gap before it widens.
As hybrid, multi-cloud, edge, and SaaS adoption accelerates, organizations are contending with fragmented environments, inconsistent controls, and expanding attack surfaces. To better understand how security leaders are responding to these pressures, we set out to examine the real-world strategies, priorities, and constraints shaping cloud defense today. Our focus includes:
- Hybrid cloud complexities and rising security incidents
- Shifting to a more distributed security approach
- Modern app-layer and network defenses
- AI security modernization
Whether you know it or not, your developers are using tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, Zed and GitHub CoPilot to create, enhance, and fix their code — but the resulting code as well as the mere inclusion of such tools with the IDE are creating new risks, fast. What You’ll Learn in This Whitepaper:
- Inside the Vibe Coding Explosion: Why AI-assisted development is transforming how software is written — and why it's now the top security blind spot.
- Groundbreaking Research Findings: Backslash tested code LLMs from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The verdict? Without specific security guardrails, LLMs generated insecure code up to 90% of the time.
- The Real Risks: Outdated AI training data, unvetted MCP servers, hallucinated vulnerabilities, LLM poisoning, and third-party flaws embedded directly into your code.
- Addressing The Risks: How a modern approach to AppSec can preempt and mitigate the risks that traditional scanners and testing tools fail to address
AI is fueling a new wave of cyber threats. This report uncovers the darker side of innovation—where threat actors are using AI to scale attacks in ways never seen before. The report zeroes in on:
- AI-driven phishing, deepfakes, and impersonation
- Jailbroken LLMs and “Dark AI” models
- Automated malware creation and data mining
- Fake AI platforms and GenAI-fueled disinformation
- Data exposure risks from unregulated corporate AI use
Backed by real-world data and threat intelligence from Check Point Research, the report also highlights how defenders can turn the tables—using AI for research, detection, and cyber resilience.
The release of The Cyber Security Report 2025 marks a critical step in addressing this year’s most pressing cyber threats and trends. Download the report to learn more.
Dive into the latest trends with Check Point's 2024 Cyber Security Report. Gain a deep understanding of the evolving digital threats landscape through a detailed analysis, featuring global attack patterns, malware families, and regional data specifics.
Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point, has unveiled its 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report. The report uncovers an unsettling 8% surge in global weekly cyberattacks in the second quarter, the most significant increase in two years, highlighting how cybercriminals have cunningly combined next-gen AI technologies with long-established tools like USB devices to conduct disruptive cyberattacks. AI has also emerged as a powerful tool for defending against sophisticated and ever evolving cyberattacks. AI-powered cybersecurity systems excel at identifying anomalies and detecting previously unseen attack patterns, thereby mitigating potential risks before they escalate. Read the report now to see how you can protect your company from future cyber attacks.
Did you know resource demand systems are rarely static across time? As a system’s usage grows the existing computer resources eventually become insufficient to support an application or service. Dive into our whitepaper, MacStadium DevOps Capacity Planning, for an overview of capacity planning for organizations that manage hardware resources for the purposes of running DevOps pipelines. Gain insight into how to assess and optimize current utilization, gather the necessary information needed to confidently forecast future needs and calculate the number of additional resources that will be required to meet those needs. Discover best practices, how to understand your current system utilization, and more!
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is a new category that Gartner expects to bring a fundamental change to the application world as it requires us to redefine our understanding of what an is application stands for: It's more than just code; it includes cloud components as well. In this eBook, Backslash dives deep dive into this new paradigm.
