Outsourcing Blamed for Rising Security Woes
John Dunn writes on TechWorld:
The world has a new culprit to blame for the rising tide of software vulnerabilities – code outsourcing.More here.
The trend to outsource the coding of applications is now a major contributor to making business software more vulnerable, a survey-cum-report has claimed.
According to analyst group Quocirca, which surveyed 250 IT directors and executives in the US, the UK and Germany for Fortify Software, ninety percent of the organisations that admitted to having been ‘hacked’ had outcourced 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.
posted by Fergie @ 4/08/2008 05:37:00 PM
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Every business investment carries a certain amount of risk. Markets, competition, government regulations, financial conditions, and technologies all change very quickly. Outsourcing providers assume and manage this risk for you, and they generally are much better at deciding how to avoid risk in their areas of expertise.
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