Blog Posts Tagged with "Software Security Assurance"
Power to the People and the Coming AppSec Revolution
January 24, 2013 Added by:Fergal Glynn
It used to be that you could call for more secure software from individual vendors – and Microsoft heeded that call with its push for trustworthy computing in 2002 – but today we’re more dependent on software and more interconnected than ever. We rise and fall by the security of our associates...
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The Four Horsemen of the Cyber-Apocalypse: Security Software FUD
December 15, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Did the title of this post get your attention? We are doomed! The sky is falling! All of your computers are infected! We are just one security breach away from complete human extinction! The security software industry is guilty of overhyping cyber threats to sell their products, second only to Hollywood...
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Software is Eating the World, And APIs are the Fuel For That
November 13, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The cloud brings a level of agility that allows organization to be more nimble than before. Cloud powers workers in disparate geographies to collaborate on projects. Cloud enables the mobile provisioning of mass information in new ways. Cloud makes insights into vast stores of data more readily obtained...
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The secret of incorporating security into functional testing
November 04, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Conversation today was around tools and use-cases for the tools in the stream of creating more secure software. My experience in this industry over the last several years has taught me that you have to fashion the tools to the use-case. Even if you give me a fantastic hammer I still won't be a great carpenter...
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Rediscovering Our Way: OWASP AppSec Ireland 2012
September 20, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
We can't expect the OWASP community to continue forward as a collection of application-security focused professionals without developer outreach, education, and more outreach. Application (and software) security isn't about security people at all, it's about developers...
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The SDLC Knowledge Gap in Motion: DevOps to the Rescue?
September 12, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
I can't tell you the fun things we found in this pre-production environment when we started digging around during security testing. No, really, I can't tell you, but rest assured it didn't end with misconfigurations, or accidental code bits being included...
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The Seven Qualities of Highly Secure Software
August 23, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Behind nearly every vulnerability is poorly written software. The 7 Qualities of Highly Secure Software highlights qualities that are essential to stop insecure code. This is a highly valuable book that can be of significant use to every stakeholder, from those in the boardroom to the head of application development...
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Buggy out the Door: Externally Discovered Defects (EDD)
August 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
What if 25% of your bugs actually ARE discovered by your customers? There is a collision of a few things here that makes this matter a lot less simple than we'd like, and a lot less convenient if you think you have a solution to the problem, but in the end it is a problem...
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Unsafe at Any Speed: Enterprises Misunderstand Software Quality
August 13, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
I had a hard time believing that "going faster" could be more secure. It was difficult to wrap my brain around how deploying code in more rapid succession could mean that the code deployed could actually be safer... but I believe that to be true now. The one caveat here is "if it's done right"...
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Software Security Assurance: Figuring Out the Developers
July 18, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
From organizations that don't care about the security of their applications to to those that follow "best practices", to those that never stop spending money and trying to improve - they all have one thing in common: They've experienced a security incident of varying levels of calamity...
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Software Security is a Business Problem
June 14, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Information Security hasn't figured out how to actually approach the problem of insecure code. Security is still largely seen as the "not my problem" problem. It's not that developers have singled out security as something they want to ignore - it's that they've got too many other things to worry about...
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Building Secure Web Applications: An Infographic
June 14, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Neglecting to take security measures at the application layer is one of the most common causes of data breaches, yet many companies still leave their applications unprotected. Securing applications begins with developer training on the risks applications face and methods required for vulnerability prevention...
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The Path to NoOps is Through the Cloud
June 12, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
So what is the single most valuable piece of technology that can push a development closer towards a NoOps methodology? I believe it's the adoption of cloud computing. While many of the security folks who read this blog are probably shaking their heads right about now, read on and let me convince you...
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What's in a Name: Does DevOps Need a Security Flavor?
June 12, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Lots of folks are trying to remove bottlenecks between development and deployment within an organization to get IT to a more agile state. Every once in a while someone talks about security - I've been trying to figure out whether and how we should be discussing the DevOps and security relationship...
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The (Hidden) Cost of Security Fixes in Enterprise Software
May 29, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Who should pay for fixes necessary to patch security defects in software? The question is deeper than whether fixes should be made available free of charge for software components that are found to contain issues. There are more costs than simply acquiring the fix here, which is where the conversation changes...
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NoOps and the Role of Infosec in Software Development
May 23, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The NoOps approach to software provides an opportunity to tightly integrate security, but we've got to get it right. If you can implement security during these cycles, spend time analyzing how workstreams will flow and what tools will be used to standardize and automate...
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