Public sector organisations face considerable pressures when developing software to underpin essential citizen services. Delivery timeframes are short, budgets are tight, skills are scarce, and security is paramount. Many public sector organisations often employ experienced contractors to offset the shortage of in-house skills, but this can bring its own challenges when it comes to ensuring
Most people in our industry know what the acronym CVE means. For those that may not, CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. According to their website, CVE was launched in 1999 as a list of common identifiers for publicly-known cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in commercial and open source software and / or firmware. What makes
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Web Top 10 list has long been the “Gold Standard” for application security testing and when it comes to the Web Top 10, the OWASP standards are due for an update in 2017. Typically, this list is updated and adjusted every three years (as it was in
Flying is a pain. Booking flights can be just as annoying. But, as one of Checkmarx’s own recently discovered, booking your flight can also be dangerous. David Sopas, a Portuguese security researcher at Checkmarx who hunts bug on the side, found a common, highly disruptive security vulnerability on one of the largest airlines in the
No matter where you are on your journey in security, there is always room to keep learning. Especially in the security industry, it’s important to aim for a deep understanding of software and how applications interact on the web. In such a dynamic field, there’s no doubt the learning will never end. Luckily for
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