Open-source licensing isn’t as complicated as license agreements go. Some people find it confusing, and businesses must pay close attention to how the licenses work. Making a mistake in one direction can result in legal action. Erring in the other direction c...
Cybersecurity often seems like an expensive proposition to many companies. There are annual evaluations to make sure you’re maintaining compliance, expensive programs to put in place, and extensive measures that have to be taken in order to provide true prote...
With the coming of GDPR, the stakes in application security get still higher. There are plenty of reasons for concern already; theft of confidential data can lead to liability, serious financial losses, and damage to reputation. GDPR adds fines as high as 10 ...
Malware has become a constant reality for most businesses. Ransomware alone cost around $5 billion in 2017–and those numbers are predicted to continue to rise in the coming years, potentially reaching as much as $11.5 billion by 2019. Prot...
Technical debt is a euphemism referring to the risk in production and potential rework assumed in software development. Due to rush and other factors, a lack of quality in deployed software developments is allowed. It is normal that resources or quality are l...
Social media, advanced technology, and the growing popularity of business transactions over the web continue to determine how organizations operate and communicate with their prospective customers. However, they’re also gateways to cyberattacks and data loss....
Canary in a Coal Mine: Detecting Cyberattacks Early Many catastrophic events are obvious, with their effects immediately visible — but not all. Fire, flood, tornadoes and earthquakes are all examples of events that can cause a substantial impact to business o...
Payment card attacks are nothing new. Cybercriminals have been targeting payment cards for more than a decade. However, there is a disturbing trend of cybercriminals discovering and leveraging novel ways to steal payment cards credentials during online transa...
As applications become increasingly cloud-based – or even cloud-native – more and more such code sends data to and from cloud-based stores, both public and private. This makes the methods and controls that such applications use to access the cloud of particul...
Healthcare Sector Application Security: Preventing Threats from Becoming Attacks Software security isn’t a state of being, or even a single action; it is a process, and one that requires more than just hardening your software. The year 2020 saw a dramati...
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re all spending more time on our PCs and smartphones. It might seem odd, but The Business Research Company’s Global Online Gambling Market report asserts that online gambling has skyrocketed in 2020. This is...
Today’s organizations, both big and small, are finding that security activities consume more resources than ever before. Cyber criminals are getting better all the time, and staying just one step ahead of them is getting harder. But it’s not just more sophist...
