The world has a new culprit to blame for the rising tide of software vulnerabilities: code outsourcing.
The trend to outsource the coding of applications is now a major contributor to making business software more vulnerable, a survey/report has claimed.
According to analyst group Quocirca, which surveyed 250 IT directors and executives in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany for Fortify Software, 90 percent of the organizations that admitted to having been "hacked' had outsourced more than 40 percent of their applications to third parties.
But the rush to benefit from the speed, convenience, and lower cost of outsourced applications was leaving security as an afterthought in an alarming number of cases. Sixty percent of respondents reported not mandating security from scratch, while 20 percent of those surveyed in the U.K. failed to accommodate security at all in the outsourced applications.
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The trend to outsource the coding of applications is now a major contributor to making business software more vulnerable, a survey/report has claimed.
According to analyst group Quocirca, which surveyed 250 IT directors and executives in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany for Fortify Software, 90 percent of the organizations that admitted to having been "hacked' had outsourced more than 40 percent of their applications to third parties.
But the rush to benefit from the speed, convenience, and lower cost of outsourced applications was leaving security as an afterthought in an alarming number of cases. Sixty percent of respondents reported not mandating security from scratch, while 20 percent of those surveyed in the U.K. failed to accommodate security at all in the outsourced applications.
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