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Hackers always attack web applications, trying to exploit vulnerabilities. Cyber threats such as data breaches, malware, phishing, and DDoS (Distributed-Denial of Services) attacks can bother and cause serious damage to businesses and users alike. So how do you protect your web application from these dangers? The good news is that if you use the right security practices, most cyber threats can be avoided. This guide covers the most common cyber threats to web apps and how you can prevent them.

Imagine downloading an app, and inputting your personal data, and a hacker in seconds finds a flaw to steal your information. Sounds scary, right? And today, mobile app security is no longer an add-on, it’s the basis for user trust and business integrity. The overall global average cost per data breach was $4.88M and the highest spending emerged from the healthcare industry. Data protection of customers is critical to the stability of mobile apps, so client trust and confidence remain intact.

Every year, January 28th marks International Data Privacy Day. This day is a timely reminder of the importance of safeguarding data and enabling trust. Even more so now we live in a world increasingly dominated by AI systems. For AI models to be accurate, they must be trained on massive amounts of data. The last thing you want however is for that data to unnecessarily include sensitive personal and confidential business information.

Security has been an integral capability of Snowflake since the company was founded. Through the customer-configurable security capabilities of the Snowflake Horizon Catalog, we empower security admins and chief information security officers (CISOs) to better protect their environments and centralize threat monitoring and role-based access controls across clouds.

You may have read about hackers using ChatGPT to impersonate your grandma. If that story made you dig a little deeper, you may have learned about the hyper-realistic phishing scams being concocted with generative AI. And if you’ve really gone into the cyber-security weeds, you may have discovered the new breed of infostealer malware stealing passwords and browser log-ins. All sounds very concerning right? Well, it needn’t do.

As the title suggests, this type of testing is truly “black!” You could even imagine it in black color. Simply put, it’s like testing in complete darkness—figuring things out while everything is unknown, like shooting arrows in the dark! Now you might be wondering “What exactly do we test if we don’t know anything?

Ensuring secure access to applications and APIs is critical. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures and cloud native solutions, the need for robust, fine-grained access control mechanisms becomes paramount. This is where the combination of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kong Gateway shines.

Though AI is (still) the hottest technology topic, it’s not the overriding issue for enterprise security in 2025. Advanced AI will open up new attack vectors and also deliver new tools for protecting an organization’s data. But the underlying challenge is the sheer quantity of data that overworked cybersecurity teams face as they try to answer basic questions such as, “Are we under attack?”