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What CEOs really need from today’s CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

He called the CIOs of SAP and Microsoft and other software companies. But don’t attempt to create a modern software development lifecycle (SDLC) on an industrial era infrastructure. If we didn’t move to a platform approach, we would still be funding these huge programs.”. Modern delivery. The democratization of IT.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges. It was assumed that every program, by default, needs this level. When this no longer became tenable, Microsoft led the way and started its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002.

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Why Fuzz Testing Is Indispensable: Billy Rios

ForAllSecure

In that conversation, one analyst shared that companies that implement fuzz testing programs never rip them out. This is a bold statement, especially in the world of application security where strategies are around tool augmentation and diversification, leading to frequent rotation of tools within product security programs.

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Software is Infrastructure

ForAllSecure

Static Analysis can be applied to a program’s source code, but works with an abstraction that does not operate against the code that actually executes. These tools generally work on fully developed/deployed applications which fundamentally shifts them rightmost in the SDLC. As analysis progresses, new test cases are generated.

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How Mayhem Is Making AppSec Easy for Small Teams

ForAllSecure

Mayhem combines fuzzing with ML techniques such as symbolic execution, a program analysis technique that determines what inputs cause each part of a program to execute. Mayhem is an ML-driven application security solution that can intelligently navigate through functions, generate test castes, and find and prove defects.

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Software is Infrastructure

ForAllSecure

Static Analysis can be applied to a program’s source code, but works with an abstraction that does not operate against the code that actually executes. These tools generally work on fully developed/deployed applications which fundamentally shifts them rightmost in the SDLC. As analysis progresses, new test cases are generated.

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SOFTWARE IS INFRASTRUCTURE

ForAllSecure

Static Analysis can be applied to a program’s source code, but works with an abstraction that does not operate against the code that actually executes. These tools generally work on fully developed/deployed applications which fundamentally shifts them rightmost in the SDLC. As analysis progresses, new test cases are generated.