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The use of mobile phones is expanding worldwide, with approximately 6.65 billion currently in use. As smartphones become ubiquitous, an increasing number of the world’s e-commerce transactions are taking place on mobile devices, leading to the coining of the term “mcommerce” to describe the new method of shopping. eMarketer predicts that by 2024 nearly 70%…

According to the U.S Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2022 accounted for 14.3% of total sales. Secure web applications are essential for modern retailers, but many are still struggling to combat common web application risks, including ones such as cross-site scripting and code injection that have been around for years,…

WAFs, or web application firewalls, have been around since the late 1990s, becoming popular in the early 2000s when OWASP formalized its top 10 list of application vulnerabilities. WAFs are designed to monitor and block suspicious HTTP traffic from reaching your web applications. This is typically done based on a series of rules that block…

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are essential to the functioning of the cloud. APIs are what allow access to and management of cloud services. They also are frequently used to connect microservices, such as containers, within the cloud. In the last decade, application development has moved away from the creation of one monolithic application in favor…

DevSecOps is an approach to application development that emphasizes collaboration between the development, security, and operations teams. Security is introduced early and is continuously monitored throughout the development lifecycle so a secure application can be rapidly released with fewer security-related bottlenecks when it reaches production. Companies that adopt a DevSecOps approach need tools that can…