Security Audit Software FAQ's:


What is the advantage of using security audit software such as Ounce for software risk assessment?

To ensure software security you have to go deep inside your source code to find and eliminate the coding errors, design flaws and policy violations that put your data and operations at risk. But manual security code review alone is too expensive, time-consuming, and inconsistent, while penetration testing, though valuable, is limited in scope. You need an efficient, repeatable, accurate method to find your software security holes in your software. Using software security audit software like Ounce automates the software analysis process, allowing organizations to rapidly assess the level of risk posed to their business by their applications.

How does security audit software aid in assessing an organization compliance with regulatory security requirements?

Regulations and compliance frameworks hold organizations accountable for insecure software and its risk to customer data, and require ongoing, measurable software risk analysis programs. Businesses, armed with security audit software such as Ounce Labs provides, can now have the metrics and policy compliance information they need to report to key executives, auditors and regulators on the process and state of their software security assurance efforts. For more information on setting up the software security audit process and complying with the applicable regulations within financial services organizations, please refer to our Compliance Guide for Financial Services.

Ounce Labs' SmartAudit&trade automated report generation for software security analysts, development managers, and risk management auditors translates the results of Ounce's extensive source code security analysis into comprehensive audit reports that measure compliance with software security best practices and regulatory requirements. SmartAudit&trade enables developers to understand how their code affects compliance, and auditors to identify the root causes of many kinds of non-compliance.

For more information about how software security audits support regulatory compliance, click here.

Can security audit software successfully analyze multiple applications within an organization's software portfolio?

No other security audit software besides Ounce allows you to aggregate the analysis results of multiple applications to deliver a measurable, intuitive, and comprehensive view of software risk across the organization. Only Ounce has the scalability, flexibility, and metrics to help you manage risk at every level of the enterprise.

With Ounce, you will understand and measure software risk across your entire software portfolio, automatically aggregating vulnerability information across multiple applications. You'll leverage Ounce's reporting and analysis capabilities - including specialized metrics and the widest range of risk, trend, and security profile reporting - to make informed decisions to reduce software risk across a complete portfolio, not simply a single project or application.

What are some other advantages of Ounce security audit software?

Whether analyzing the source code of a single application or measuring the risk of your entire portfolio, only the Ounce Labs solution has been designed from the ground up to provide your executives, analysts, developers and auditors with the answers they need to manage the risk from vulnerable software. Ounce Labs' patented software risk analysis solution helps you to:

  • Quickly identify the most serious security risks: Ounce's patented analysis capabilities identify the most critical coding errors and design flaws

     

  • Maximize the effectiveness of your security stakeholders: The fastest time-to-results streamlines security efforts throughout the SDLC, for all stakeholders
  • Manage risk across your enterprise portfolio: Centralized dashboards and policy management capabilities allow at-a-glance information about your software risk, enterprise-wide.

Where can I find more information on Ounce security audit software?

For more information on Ounce software security audit solution please refer to the Ounce Infosheet.

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