We live in an era of digital transformation with software at the heart of it. Software is everywhere – in our mobile devices, in our computers, in our homes, and our cars. When software is everywhere, everything becomes an attack surface. The Software Security space, formerly known as application security, has been around for a number of years. In the early days, most organizations focused only on performing penetration testing. Today’s reality is more complex. Software security risk is multidimensional. Software Risks Organizations of every size are being encouraged to use open source to accelerate time-to-market while lowering development costs. Therefore, it is critical that vulnerabilities related to custom code, open source, and run-time risks will be identified as early as possible. Awareness Risks Building secure software requires more than technology. It also requires an investment in people. When organizations lack security awareness, the outcome is repeated errors, vulnerabilities over time, and unnecessary refactoring and retesting of code. Adoption Risks Strong adoption and automation is required to take advantage of newer, more efficient development methodologies like Agile, Continuous Integration (CI), and DevOps. The result of security solutions being treated as standalone solutions, operated only by security teams, end in longer remediation cycles and incomplete testing. Once you understand the full scale of the risk, you realize that securing your software takes more than a tool
Checkmarx makes software security essential infrastructure: unified with DevOps, and seamlessly embedded into every stage of your SDLC, from uncompiled coding to runtime testing. Our holistic platform sets the new standard for instilling security into modern development, so you can turn your software exposure into your software advantage – today and far into the future