AI regulations in software development
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 by Richard Harris
AI is rapidly changing the software development field, making clear regulations essential to prevent risks like data breaches and ensure ethical practices. These regulations are also key to reshaping developer roles while preserving the need for human expertise.
AI regulations in software development
The implementation of formal AI policies within companies is cri...
Veracode acquires Longbow Security
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Veracode announced the acquisition of Longbow Security, a security risk management platform for cloud-native environments. The acquisition marks the next exciting phase of Veracode, underscoring the company’s commitment to help organizations effectively manage and reduce application risk across the growing attack surface.
The integration of Longbow in...
Infrastructure as code announced by env0
Monday, March 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
env0 announced the company’s enterprise-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation platform featuring self-hosted agents, SAML (Security Assertion Mark-up Language) authentication support and SOC2 Type 2 certification. The enhanced platform delivers production proven remote-run workflow management and a new security framework to empower user deployments and dir...
Acronis gives developers early access to new cyber platform
Monday, April 29, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Acronis announced the opening of its core platforms, enabling broad, third-party developer access to the Acronis Cyber Platform to encourage expanded functionality and application integrations while expanding their opportunities in Acronis’ large ecosystem.
The Acronis Cyber Platform, which is the foundation of the company’s existing services, features a ...
Gamification can transform your software security program
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Pieter Danhieux
No matter the organization, or indeed their individual circumstances, there is one problem I have identified time and time again over the course of my career: AppSec managers, CISOs, CIOs and cybersecurity experts all over the world are rarely able to positively engage their dev teams on security best practice and training. It’s a source of conflict between teams,...
National Coding Week is here
Monday, September 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
National Coding Week is upon us. That's why we thought it would be great to compile some quotes from industry experts to talk about what they think is most important about learning how to coding - a question seen through many different lenses.
“Today, software drives business. So, if an organization wants to excel, it needs to become a software-powered jugg...
Code security gamification company nabs $3.5M in funding
Friday, September 14, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Secure application development platform provider Secure Code Warrior announced that it has gained US $3.5 million in funding from two strategic venture capital firms. The financing was led by Washington DC-based Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Sydney-based AirTree Ventures. The initial funding round will allow the company to further expand its rapidly gro...
Tips for securing container deployments
Friday, September 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Container deployments are still susceptible to the regular threats that other types of deployments are - including DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. In fact, hackers often take advantage of compromised containers to scan sensitive data, download malware, or privilegeunauthorized access to any of your containers, hosts or data centers.Fei Huang is the CEO of NeuVect...
Codeless security integrations by Blackberry and Appdome announced
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
BlackBerry Limited and Appdome, a cloud hub for mobile app integration, announced they are enabling codeless integration of secure voice, video and messaging capabilities. Available under Appdome’s newest service category, Secure Messaging, the BBM Enterprise SDK (software development kit) offers a growing set of secure communications capabilities that mobile app develo...
How citizen developers pose risks for data integrity
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
In new survey of over 500 IT Decision Makers, 75 percent believe an enterprise low-code platform is the solution to harness the energy of citizen application developers, while mitigating risks In a new YouGov survey commissioned by Appian, large IT companies state that citizen developers pose risks for data integrity (73% of respondents), security (69% of responden...
Checkmarx opens beta support for Scala programming language
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Checkmarx, an application security testing company, has announced open beta support of the Scala programming language. The new capability adds the ability to analyze and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities exposed in projects written using Scala code.The added capability not only allows the detection of vulnerabilities within Scala code, but also the ability to...
SourceClear launches integrations across Atlassian stack
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
SourceClear is launching integrations across the Atlassian stack, including Bitbucket Pipelines, JIRA Server, JIRA Cloud, and Bamboo adding a critical layer of security to Continuous Delivery. In addition to Atlassian, SourceClear will bring secure continuous delivery to Travis CI, CircleCI, and CodeShip as well.These new integrations bring automated security checks int...
Swift Programmers Using Checkmarx Can Now Detect Security and Code Flaws
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Since launching publicly at Apple’s WWDC in 2014, Swift has soared in popularity amongst programmers and has caught the attention of other major technology players in the process. Google is now even considering implementing Swift as a “first class” language for Android. Facebook and Uber are exploring ways to make Swift more central to their operations, while IBM, ...
ERPScan Releases New SaaS Security Platform for SAP Environments
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
ERPScan has released a new SaaS solution to protect SAP environments from customization issues. The new solution combines the ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite engine and new technologies developed ERPScan. ERPScan's SAP Code Security SaaS provides the ability to upload a program code from their SAP Systems into ERPScan's cloud platform. Users receive a list of ide...