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How to Secure Remote Workers and the Data They Work With

What about remote employees who are connecting from home? Each must access company software and work with sensitive data without exposing their work product to hackers and other unwanted viewers.

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5 Tips for Developing Secure Financial Applications

Most financial services providers have an option that customers can use to access various services at their convenience. Unfortunately, security continues to be a cause of concern for anyone planning to enroll in mobile/online banking services.

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New Security Concerns in Hybrid Office Models

As 2021 reaches its halfway point, many businesses are transitioning back toward more on-premises operations, but some analysts believe that a hybrid workforce will be the new normal. In a hybrid model, the workforce is made up of both on-premises and remote ...

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Analyzing the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

On May 7, Colonial Pipeline had to shut down its pipelines due to a ransomware attack. Colonial is a major oil pipeline operator in the southern and eastern United States. Its pipelines extend from Texas to New Jersey and reach Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama...

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The Worst AppSec Mistakes to Avoid

Application security people, like anyone else, can make mistakes. Hasty actions and bad assumptions lead to a less complete discovery of flaws — or to outright disaster. In the worst case, A clumsy attempt to discover security problems can itself cause a brea...

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What Is Application Security?

The conversation surrounding application security could go a thousand different directions, technology is a massive landscape after all. For the purposes of this discourse, our focus will be on three particular arms of appsec. Perhaps we could call them the G...

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GDPR: Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation

The GDPR is Promoting a Culture Change About Data Privacy The importance and need for security has never been greater, in particular with personal and data security. Among all the great benefits of technology, the internet and the resulting connecti...

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6 Major Security Advantages of Open Source

The concept of open source software has shifted considerably from what some enterprises once thought about it. Any negative thoughts then were all misconceptions or not understanding what open source really is. Considering open source software is often free o...

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How NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Affects Application Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that, among other things, maintains physical science laboratories and produces guidance for assessing compliance with a wide range of stand...

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Why GDPR Makes Application Security More Important Than Ever

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 ...

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DevSecOps: Follow the Leader

When we think of security, especially the deep embedded and core measures introduced by DevSecOps, we often think of these measures in terms of insurance – and rightly so. We associate such security measures with protection, like keeping the software developm...

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CIOs vs. Technical Debt: Balancing Innovation and Maintenance

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...

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