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Shift Left – how to improve security in your developers’ code – do it earlier
January 27, 2017There was a pretty simple premise behind last week's Shift Left conference, organised by Checkmarx at the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge. If you look at the software development cycle, it... Read More
Checkmarx appoints Shmuel Arvatz as Chief Financial Officer
January 16, 2017NEW YORK: Checkmarx has announced Shmuel Arvatz as the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO). In this role, Mr. Arvatz will report to Checkmarx CEO Emmanuel Benzaquen, and will have global responsibility for leading the company's financial operations, as well as legal and other various operational departments. Along with these... Read More
Predicting a soft future for the security world in 2020
January 11, 2017Paul Curran, Content Specialist for Checkmarx looks at several major trends to provide insight on what the software security world will look like in 2020. Society, having moved from an... Read More
Greatest Hits Of 2016: Readers’ Picks For The Years’ Best Commentary
December 27, 2016The hacking thriller Mr. Robot may have been snubbed by the 2017 Golden Globe Award nominating committee this month, but security researcher Sarah Vonnegut’s blog - 5 'Mr. Robot' Hacks... Read More
Should CIOs Be Certified to Practice Data?
December 19, 2016Asaph Schulman, vice president, marketing, for Checkmarx, an application security firm, says “the threat landscape is constantly evolving and in an era where every department of every company seems to be developing software, it is difficult to manage what one doesn’t understand.” The full article is available on The... Read More
The role of testing in securing applications
December 19, 2016Adopting a DevOps culture is becoming increasingly discussed with a HP Enterprise report recently claiming that 99 per cent of operations professionals agreeing that it can improve application security but unfortunately the report also highlighted that only 20 per cent of respondents test during the development process. But testing is... Read More
Ashley Madison forced to pay for deceptive security practices
December 15, 2016Amit Ashbel, cyber-security evangelist at Checkmarx told SC Media UK, “on a day that Yahoo admits that one billion account credentials have been stolen. The fine that Ashley Madison got... Read More
Checkmarx 2017 Predictions: Predicting a Soft Future
December 15, 2016Society, having moved from an industrial age to the birth of the internet is now truly an era where software has become the most critical aspect of our modern world. In earlier times, manufactured products left the factory with just a single purpose, now, through updates via the internet, products... Read More
2017 DevOps Predictions – Part 2
December 13, 2016In my opinion the biggest trend in software development for 2017 will be the continued shift to agile based software development methodologies. Our current social media driven society is pushing organization to release new feature filled web and mobile applications at a lighting pace. Traditional Waterfall software development methodologies are... Read More
Predicting a Soft Future
December 8, 2016Paul Curran, Content Specialist, Checkmarx looks at several major trends to provide insight on what the software security world will look like in 2020. Society, having moved from an industrial age to the birth of the internet is now truly an era where software has become the most critical aspect... Read More
November 2016: The month in hacks and breaches
December 7, 2016For a timeline of other notable hacks and breaches from last month, see the following infographic from application security provider Checkmarx. Click here to view the full article and infographic. Read More
Report: Mirai ‘is just the tip of the iceberg’
December 7, 2016Amit Ashbel, cyber-security evangelist at Checkmarx told SC that Mirai throws threw the security of the IoT into sharp relief: “Security experts have brought up the concern of IoT vendors... Read More
Paul Curran, Content Specialist for Checkmarx, looks at the major security trends which will affect the software security moving forward
December 6, 2016Society, having moved from an industrial age to the birth of the internet is now truly an era where software has become the most critical aspect of our modern world.... Read More
Android app security tested by malware and vulnerabilities
December 2, 2016Matt Rose, global director of application security strategy at Checkmarx, said he was wary about Zimperium releasing the exploit code. "The reasoning here is that it is a real issue and consciously being ignored then by the vendor and releasing the actual code would push them to acknowledge and remediate... Read More
WordPress Plugins could leave Online shoppers and businesses vulnerable on cyber Monday
November 23, 2016As American shoppers gear up for the biggest shopping weekend of the year – the perfect storm of Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday - more and more shoppers... Read More
Most Organizations Around the World Are Unprepared to Respond to Cyberattack
November 17, 2016Matt Rose, global director of Application Security Strategy at Checkmarx Ltd., an app security testing company, said ‘‘the problem is that cyberattacks are not just a technology issue but a... Read More
New plugin allows DevOps teams to rapidly embed security into software development lifecycles
November 17, 2016NEW YORK: Checkmarx has announced a new Checkmarx plugin for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services platform. The new Checkmarx (CxSAST) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Plugin allows organizations with... Read More
New VS plugin from Checkmarx lets DevOps teams to rapidly embed security
November 16, 2016Checkmarx just announced a new Checkmarx plugin for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services platform. The new Checkmarx (CxSAST) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Plugin allows organizations with agile development... Read More
Checkmarx adopted by allPay to reduce software vulnerabilities and increase security
November 4, 2016Checkmarx, a global leader in software application security, and allPay, a financial technology enterprise with a third-party payment platform, has announced allPay’s full implementation of Checkmarx solutions to increase its security posture.... Read More
The State of U.S. Federal Cybersecurity in 2016
November 3, 2016One malicious email can, and has, jeopardized the sensitive data of countless U.S. civilians. How? Federal agencies collect and store some of the most sensitive and top secret data. This data ranges from top secret defense IP’s in the Department of Defense (DOD), current and former federal employee personal records... Read More
