Working in application security sometimes feels like walking a fine line between "business as usual" and "doomsday is coming." This balance becomes increasingly harder at times like these, when digital acceleration is happening in every sector, outpacing the security controls put in place.
Much of the disruption that kindled this acceleration happened in the Web development and security space. Twenty years ago, the "typical" website was a static page for informational purposes. Today, it's a dynamic Web app that handles extremely sensitive data and performs critical operations.
Sensitive data continuously passing through almost every website gives attackers a golden opportunity to steal and sell this private information. Unfortunately, such attacks have become wildly successful — and the growth of exposed records keeps climbing. Recent data indicates that the number of exposed records in first quarter of 2020 was 273% higher than in the same quarter of 2019.
By now, those working in application security know that traditional security systems (server-side and network security such as Web application firewalls) can't prevent data-exfiltration attacks targeting websites. Attackers are taking advantage of a blind spot in client-side security, injecting malicious code into companies' websites without ever having to breach their first-party servers. And this brings us to the "ticking time bomb": the Web supply chain.
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/Service Ventures Team
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