Not even the best fence in the world is secure if you leave a gate hanging open. In a lot of ways, that basic idea sums up why most security vulnerabilities start with perpetrators finding relatively small security oversights. Attackers prefer the path of least resistance, and getting a proverbial…

Quickly bringing product to market tends to require more tools, skills and chunks of code than a single development location can offer. That basic fact can put secure development policy management somewhere between rocket science and the black arts on the difficulty scale — and as a company expands…

Typically, the goal of continuous security monitoring is to ensure that applications remain in compliance with your security policies -- even through expansions, upgrades and patches. Committing to continuous security monitoring practices almost always means making changes as an organization. While…

There's a reason scalability is such an important concept on the development scene. When you've spent years devising and revising a set of practices, even small changes to the status quo can cause serious personnel-related and financial disruptions. That's why any support product that grows to meet…

Hiring a third party to build your company's web apps (or pieces of them) may not be as difficult as putting the code together internally, but there can still be significant roadblocks involved. That's especially true when it comes to software compliance, and it becomes more challenging when a…

Application security isn't just a list of practices or a set of rules to go by — it's a state of mind. Even if that sounds hokey, it's also absolutely, totally, 100 percent true. Without the proper culture instilled at an office-wide level, no cutting-edge protocols or best practices can save you…