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Promoting secure code from within: the gamification approach

By Checkmarx Team
September 19, 2016

By exposing developers to security as part of the coding process, they can learn more about creating secure code and so reduce the time needed for testing.

Recent research claims that a quarter of third party apps are high risk and although they’re banned in some organisations, policing that ban is difficult. Third party apps and especially open source ones are great and play a very important task in today’s development practices, however, in order to ensure they are not putting your applications at risk, developers need to learn how to code securely. Read more on ITProPortal.

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Promoting secure code from within: the gamification approach

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