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This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The architecture reflects the four pillars of security engineering best practice, Perimeter, Data, Access and Visibility. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Before diving into the technologies it is worth becoming familiar with the key security principle of a layered approach that facilitates defense in depth.

Data security is an important priority for every organization that handles customer or user data, especially those that fall under data privacy and protection laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Large volumes of personal data flow in and out of companies and their systems every day, and the threat of data breaches looms over these operations. How can organizations use their data to power critical operations without running afoul of regulations or privacy concerns?

In our previous blog post covering our in-house Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) application, we described the data model for the system and basic features allowing security analysts to review events and trends across Appian’s many security monitoring systems.

If you haven’t checked out the first part of Securing your Applications in Node.js, click here. This is a 3-part blog series on Node.js. This article aims to establish a Node.js security roadmap by addressing security challenges comprehensively and consistently for large infrastructures. Let’s begin! 🚀

OWASP and OWASP Top 10 help to safeguard your code against software security vulnerabilities. Here, we explain what is OWASP and what are the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Read along or jump to the section that interests you the most: ➡️ use Klocwork for easy owasp compliance.

An API or Application Programming Interface is how two applications communicate with one another; it is also the way users access an application. All websites and applications use some form of API through an API gateway, which serves as an entry point to a service. Unfortunately, over 90% of businesses have suffered from a security problem related to their APIs, making API security a top concern. For this reason and more, many businesses require a dedicated API management platform.

In the third and final article of our series on the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks, we’ll explore the lesser-known risks associated with the development of web applications on Rails when it comes to threats involving security misconfiguration, JSON escaping, etc.