The Path to a Secure Application

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The ongoing epidemic of data breach notifications forced by today’s data breach disclosure laws has painfully highlighted the insecurity of many of today’s applications. How, then, can organizations ensure their applications are secure, and avoid the cost and public relations fallout — not to mention stock price downturn — inherent in issuing numerous security patches, or worse, having to explain to consumers and regulators how code defects allowed attackers to steal people’s sensitive and perhaps regulated information?

The path to creating a secure application begins by rigorously testing source code for any and all vulnerabilities, to ensure the application will not compromise, or allow others to compromise, data privacy and integrity.