DevSecOps has moved security front and center in the world of modern development; however, security and development teams are driven by different metrics, making objective alignment challenging. This is further exacerbated by the fact that most security teams lack an understanding of modern application development practices. The move to microservices-driven architectures and the use of
Firms that want to secure applications are challenged by understaffed security teams and lack of security awareness on the part of developers. Developer security champions are developers who act as a security point of contact in their team, but programs to create and support them require investment and planning. Security and risk (S&R) professionals should
Your challenge: developers want to create secure code but lack training, and appsec resources are hard to hire and retain developers want to create secure code, but lack training, so they must rely on appsec experts to create secure applications. But the severe cybersecurity talent shortage leads to: • Security positions often remaining open for
Enabling a smooth payments experience for customers is crucial to maximise sales and growth potential in an omnichannel world. But as payment innovations and consumer expectations continue to evolve, how can companies keep up? The payments landscape has transformed significantly in recent years, driven by developments in technology and fast-changing consumer expectations. The role payments
Visa and Mastercard have recently increased the Contactless payments from £30 to £45, thereby reducing the number of instances customers have to handle a terminal to authorise payment. The use of cash has sharply declined in recent years. Since Covid-19 crisis started, we’ve seen a lot of shops stop taking cash, to minimize the risk
Unlike other global events that have shaken public confidence in the past, e.g. the financial crash of 2008, COVID-19 will inflict potential long-term economic hardship. In this eBook, we will look at some quick win opportunities which could help your business support the community you live in. We’ll keep the information as updated as we
With the opening of non-essential businesses still entirely dependent on a number of factors, many businesses are pivoting to an e-commerce business model for the very first time. E-commerce is an effective way of maintaining sales during these strange times, as more and more people shift to online shopping habits regardless. And it is actually
As thousands of datasets are being created each day, enterprises find themselves struggling to understand and gain insights from their information. Usually messy, scattered and unorganized, data & analytics teams are found spending most of their time cleaning up a Big Data mess! In fact, many recent surveys* still state that data science teams spend
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes informs a local inspector that “the temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” In today’s information-flooded business world, access to sufficient data isn’t a problem. But we often struggle with a different challenge—inefficient data. Data and analytics are
IT executives, contributors, and IT security teams in a range of industries understand that their growing arrays of public-facing applications, whether those are web, mobile, or API-based, are the targets of automated bot attack campaigns. Inexpensive and easy-to-launch automated malicious bot attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the business logic of these applications to hijack user accounts,