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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Shifting security left in your SDLC program is a priority that executives should be giving their focus to.

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The FuzzCon 2021 Real Talks Panel

ForAllSecure

From tooling selection, to value justification, to organizational buy-in, to strategy building, these experts reference their 50+ years of collective industry experience to reveal their personal tips, tricks, and cautionary tales. “You can easily build piles of findings with various tools. Some tools are limited on input type.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

There are clearly tremendous tools in this space like GitHub Co-Pilot that developers can use to enhance and augment their productivity,” he says. An overall better measurement of how effective developers are is if we can get tools and experiences in our customers’ hands quicker, which will have an overall greater benefit,” he says.

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A Guide To Automated Continuous Security Testing

ForAllSecure

Continuous testing enables security teams to keep pace with development and operations teams in modern development, and to deliver deep integration and automation of security tooling. In the Federal space, military software systems, for example, need to last decades out in the field. Take the F-15, for example.

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Challenging ROI Myths Of Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

ForAllSecure

Of these defects, we can typically expect approximately 7.5k - 25k to be FPs (and that’s if your SAST tool is good). Being able to identify the line of code where a failure occurs and having an example of a test which reproduces that failure is the gold standard for actionability. Six Problems. Compliance however is not security.

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Getting ahead of cyberattacks with a DevSecOps approach to web application security

CIO Business Intelligence

By integrating security practices into the DevOps process, DevSecOps aims to ensure that security is an integral part of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This caused significant bottlenecks in the SDLC and was not conducive to DevOps methodologies, which emphasize development velocity.

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Challenging ROI Myths Of Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

ForAllSecure

Of these defects, we can typically expect approximately 7.5k - 25k to be FPs (and that’s if your SAST tool is good). Being able to identify the line of code where a failure occurs and having an example of a test which reproduces that failure is the gold standard for actionability. Six Problems. Compliance however is not security.