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Read more: How to cyber security: Software security is everyone’s responsibilityBy: Jonathan Knudsen, Senior Security Strategist, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Remember group projects in school? Teachers love them because they have less grading to do; in a class of 25 students, they might only need to look at 5 projects. For team members, team projects can be difficult, usually when…
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Read more: Can your security keep pace in a DevOps environment?By: Taylor Armerding, Software Security Expert, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Comparing the speed of software development today to even just a decade ago is a bit like comparing a bullet train to a bicycle. With CI/CD and DevOps now mainstream, it’s faster by orders of magnitude. According to a 2015…
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Read more: 2021 Predictions By Security ExpertsBy: Jonathan Knudsen, Senior Security Strategist, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Some things will certainly not change in 2021. Massive amounts of valuable data will continue to be placed online in public places with no protections. People will continue to choose easily guessed passwords that they use across multiple accounts…
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Read more: How to Cyber Security: Pain in the *ASTContributed by: Jonathan Knudsen, Senior Security Strategist, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Language is tricky, especially in areas where it is evolving quickly. Software security is a young and volatile field where new terminology ebbs and flows continually. Part of the challenge of having a fruitful conversation is simply ensuring that…
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Read more: Defensible risk management can improve your job securityContributed by: Taylor Armerding, Software Security Expert at Synopsys Software Integrity Group It’s lonely at the top, the saying goes. It can also be precarious. The rewards are big, but so are the risks. When things go well, the person at the top gets the credit. When they go wrong, that…
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Read more: How to champion security in DevOpsBy: Taylor Armerding, Software Security Expert at Synopsys Software Integrity Group If DevSecOps isn’t working very well in your organisation, you can probably sum up the issue in the same way as “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Which should not be a shock.…
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Read more: Too many security tools can be as bad as too fewBy: Taylor Armerding, Software Security Expert at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Perhaps the “Too many cooks can spoil the stew” cliché needs a corollary in the IT world. Because too many security tools can spoil your software development — and even undermine your security. No, this doesn’t mean all security testing…
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Read more: Can Companies Stay Safe from Software vulnerabilities?By: Ian Hall, Manager, Client Success, APAC, Synopsys Software Integrity Group Software, no matter who builds it, is prone to vulnerabilities. As our world becomes increasingly reliant on digitisation, more software is being written and more vulnerabilities are expected to surface. For over a decade, the National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD)…
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Read more: How to overcome the top 6 application security challengesBy: Jonathan Knudsen, Senior Security Strategist, at Synopsys Software Integrity Group Most companies take a reactive approach to application security and information security. But why wait for an attacker to get into your unprotected (or minimally protected) sensitive data before you decide to do something about it? What application security challenges…
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Read more: The shift to remote work makes red team testing more important than everBy: Taylor Armerding, Software Security Expert at Synopsys Software Integrity Group In a red team assessment, a group of hired ethical hackers demonstrate how real-world malicious attackers might use any means available — in person, over the phone, or online — to breach an organisation. The goal: Help those organisations…
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