June 2016

At times, being a developer can feel a little bit like being back in school and getting partnered up on projects. You would work your butt off, fastidiously checking and rechecking your part of the assignment until you’re sure it’s

It’s been a while since the last major Florida election controversy but at long last the sunshine state has delivered. A cybersecurity researcher exposed serious vulnerabilities in the Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office website…and was promptly arrested after detailing

Enterprise level software needs a tightly bound software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure deployed applications follow business requirements and stay bug-free. In the Hollywood blockbuster version of this high-stakes process, that secure SDLC would require exactly five things: lasers,

Every year, we see a considerable increase in the number and severity of cybersecurity incidents from which companies suffer major financial losses, harm to their reputation, and irreparable damage to their customers. In 2015 alone, cybercriminals raked in billions of

When the movie Sneakers came out in 1992, hacking wasn’t considered a real threat; it was almost something cool that really clever kids did just to prove they could.  More than two decades later, hacking has taken on a far

There’s a certain poignant disappointment that occurs when your expectations do not align with reality. Especially when your expectations are both reasonable and logical. Take the topic of securing an application based on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, for

Testing and rooting out bugs are integral parts of any successful application development process. Most prominent software development standards, including the popular Agile method, include provisions for making sure the end-product operates according to the use cases that define the required

The pace at which the Internet of Things (IoT) is entering our homes and workplaces is phenomenal. This proliferation brings lots of potential benefits to users but it also presents numerous security risks. There is currently no common IoT platform;