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The Netizen team sharing expertise, insights and useful information in cybersecurity, compliance, and software assurance.
Category: Application Security
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More than 4 billion electronic records were stolen in 2016, the result of more than 4,000 data breaches, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. That brings the number of records stolen by hackers to an all-time high. Today, every business — regardless of size, industry or location — is at risk for…
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The private sector operates much of U.S. critical infrastructure, but is it doing enough to further national cybersecurity strategy efforts designed to protect these assets? The U.S. government has been very public about its concern for national cybersecurity. There have been grandiose speeches, presidential declarations and several attempts by the legislature to pass new cybersecurity…
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Devops is transforming how developers and operations teams work together to deliver better software faster. At its core, devops is about automation. When several tasks in development, testing, and deployment are automated, developers can make changes to code and deploy to production frequently. Amazon, a leading devops proponent, at one point claimed to have more…
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In a large ballroom inside the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this month, the next leap forward in the digital revolution took place in front of a crowd of hundreds of hackers in town for theDef Con security conference. There wasn’t a charismatic CEO on stage who would demonstrate a revolutionary new smartphone, nor was there an…
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The explosive growth of mobile apps and the shift to cloud computing are increasing security risks at the application level, a problem that organizations can overcome by hiring skilled developers and lessening the “rush to release,” according to a new report. That report — Application Security in the Changing Risk Landscape — was released yesterday…
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