Want a better information security program? Most companies do and are willing to spend big money on safeguarding critical systems. As noted by Infosecurity Magazine, Allied Market Research predicts huge growth in the hardware encryption market, with a CAGR of more than 50 percent and a net…

Data breaches are on the rise. According to a recent Forbes article, more than 675 million records were compromised last year. What's more, these breaches weren't limited to a single sector: retail, financial and even post-secondary institutions were all victimized. That means IT security must…

Third-party software can be problematic. Just ask American Airlines, which recently experienced an issue with its iPad-based electronic flight bags. A misconfiguration in third-party mapping software caused the devices to crash when pilots tried to access a specific map, in turn delaying flights…

Cisco's annual security report, as highlighted on RCRWireless, indicates that new IT security threats are emerging. The highlights? "Snowshoe spam," which diffuses attacks over hundreds of IP addresses so as not to attract attention, is on the upswing, along with new web exploit kits such as those…

It is six times as expensive to fix an app vulnerability in production than to fix one in development, according to a recent Veracode webinar. This shouldn't come as a surprise: developers test for functional and performance bugs early in the in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). So it…

If software composition analysis is the key ingredient in your application development recipe, coding standards will make it rise. When baked into every step of the agile development process, they give you a leg up on functionality, testing and — perhaps most importantly — security. With too many…