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November 2016: The month in hacks and breaches
December 7, 2016

For 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, 2016

Amit 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, 2016

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 of our modern world.... Read More

Android app security tested by malware and vulnerabilities
December 2, 2016

Matt 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, 2016

As 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, 2016

Matt 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, 2016

NEW 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, 2016

Checkmarx 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, 2016

Checkmarx, 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, 2016

One 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

Why don’t developers have a ‘spellchecker’ for security’?
October 31, 2016

Built-in security education Checkmarx is one of several vendors looking to address that very issue. "We take source code, and do the analysis on 10 or 100 lines of code,... Read More

Top Culture Changes to Make DevOps a Reality – Part 2
October 26, 2016

The most important culture change required to embrace DevOps in an organization is to forget about the traditional silo approach. Departments are no more responsible for their own delivery but... Read More

13 IT leaders confess their scary stories and deep, dark fears
October 25, 2016

Doomed to repeat mistakes “In my many years of experience helping some of the largest organizations in the world roll out effective application security programs utilizing SAST the scariest trend... Read More

The state of testing within application security
October 21, 2016

Testing is an integral part of application security (AppSec) but according to the recent SANS State of Application Security report recently commissioned by Checkmarx, how organisations test is very diverse. The report identifies how organisations test, who is responsible for testing, what organisations are finding and how they are remediating those... Read More

Top Factors That Impact Application Performance 2016 – Part 4
October 17, 2016

APP DESIGN: SECURITY I think application performance is a huge subject but with what the world of software is going through today a lot has to do with security. I believe that the ability to deliver applications which have been developed with security in mind from the start will have... Read More

7 ways DevOps benefits CISOs and their security programs
October 4, 2016

DevOps can be beneficial Organizational culture and its processes and technology are evolving at a pace we have never experienced before. As a result, we can’t just sit back and wait for the “DevOps fad” to fade away because it isn’t going to. It’s not a fad – it’s an... Read More

Yahoo to be sued over mega breach
September 27, 2016

Yahoo will be sued over the mega breach that was revealed last week. A resident of New York, Ronald Schwartz, filed the suit on Friday in a California court represented by law firms Robbins Geller Rudman as well as Dowd and Labaton Sucharow. The suit states that if only Yahoo... Read More

Securing code to fight cyber crime
September 27, 2016

Amit Ashbel, Cyber Security Evangelist, Checkmarx, explains why automated application security testing is the first step in combating cyber crime. The world is moving at an incredible pace. New technologies are regularly announced and whole ecosystems developed around them; such as the internet of things (IoT) for example. However, with... Read More

Checkmarx Announces AppSec Coach
September 19, 2016

Checkmarx announced availability of a new secure coding eLearning platform, called AppSec Coach, providing Checkmarx customers the ability to address one of the greatest challenges in the software industry when it comes to application security: finding an effective way to provide developers knowledge and skills to write secure code. The... Read More

Checkmarx wants to help developers write more secure code
September 19, 2016

An organization’s security isn’t the responsibility of its IT department alone. Development teams need to be vigilant too and take measures to rid their software of vulnerabilities, a requirement that... Read More

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