Protecting sensitive data and preventing unintended data exposure is critical for businesses. However, many organizations lack the tools to stay on top of where sensitive data resides across their enterprise. It’s particularly concerning when sensitive data shows up in unexpected places – for example, in logs that services generate, when customers inadvertently send it in a customer support chat, or when managing unstructured analytical workloads.

Anybody interested in providing products and services to consumers dreams of building a start-up. For any entrepreneur who aspires to create a market-leading product, this is the first step. In the post-covid pandemic era, you may easily start a digital business by simply creating a website. However, exposing all of your services and products on an internet platform has become a requirement. You will not be able to survive in the market if you do not do so.

The OWASP API Security Top 10 identifies the top API vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to mobile, web and SaaS applications as well as internal, partner and external API programs, highlighting which vulnerabilities must be detected and mitigated promptly. Gartner predicts that APIs that expose private information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) will be the most common attack vector in 2022.

In our previous blog posts, we’ve covered the core components, orchestration capabilities and automated analysis and ChatOps features in our in-house Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) application. In this final blog post, we will briefly cover one of the system’s automated response capabilities that allow it to take action and respond to alerts without human intervention, and close out the blog series with two important lessons learned from implementing SOAR at Appian.

There are many excellent authorization libraries for Rails, but did you know it's not that hard to build this functionality yourself? In this article, Renata Marques shows us how to use the Policy Object Pattern to implement access control in our Rails apps.

A few weeks ago I saw this message in our internal support channel on Slack, and it made my gears grind. So I stopped to take a look, since the last thing we want is a customer taken advantage of. There are people out there on the internet cheeky enough to freeload off your account, and use up your monthly quotas. What's more: you may not know that it is happening.