QASource Blog

The recent pandemic has led to a major lockdown across the globe. The IT industry is no exception - engineers are now working from home more than ever.

Most healthcare enterprise applications are loaded with critical data related to patients and the various organizations they serve. This can include health records, payment information, account details, and identity details. Due to the incredible sensitivity of this data, thorough software security testing is a necessity for healthcare applications so that critical information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. By “wrong hands,” we mean criminals in the identity theft business, hackers skilled in malware and phishing schemes, and cyber-attackers aiming to hold critical files or your entire system hostage by ransomware.

Cloud services such as Amazon AWS enable product companies to run their applications using the resources provided on the cloud. In this era of services, scalability and mobility makes it easier to launch seamless products.

Cyber threats and security are finally being seriously addressed due to the volume and intensity of attacks this year. With the continuously changing threats, it’s important to proactively adhere to preventive approaches.

DevSecOps is an approach to thinking about application and infrastructure security from the beginning. It is mainly about built-in security, and not just the security that functions as a perimeter around apps and data.

With this edition of the ShieldCast expert series, we aim to educate end users about the potential security risks of using smartwatches and what it takes for security testing and securing such devices.

To ensure that the users are not subjected to such situations, security testing for mobile applications is necessary. This is what we will talk about in this quarterly expert series.

Is QA testing necessary for security software? Software QA is absolutely necessary. We are constantly hearing about data breaches occurring seemingly every day, so products and software that can ensure users' safety are in high demand. This surge in demand for security software increases the pressure security product organizations feel as they release new software. Read on to discover how a security company learned that in order to guarantee the safety of users, cybersecurity companies should invest in a QA partner.

A cloud security assessment is a complete evaluation of hosted application as well as the platform itself. In this expert series, we talk about how can we do that along with some highlights from the RSA conference and GDPR.