Understand how the Synopsys partner ecosystem can help your organization address your software quality and application security challenges. To build secure, high-quality software in today’s challenging environment, organizations need world-class partnerships backed by industry-leading software quality and application security products and services.

Automation, when done properly, can improve the productivity, quality, safety and security in your software development. Automation isn’t just a “nice-to-have” element of modern business. It’s a “must-have.” Companies simply can’t compete on multiple levels—quality, speed to market, safety, and security—if they rely on manual tools and processes.

5G is faster than its predecessor but that doesn’t change the approach to software security for your applications. Some wild claims have been made about 5G networking. I’ve heard mention of self-healing factories and smart highway systems. While such things might be possible, there’s nothing magical about 5G. In essence, it’s just faster wireless networking than we’ve had before. That’s nice, but hardly revolutionary.

Are today’s mobile apps secure or do they offer opportunities for attackers? Learn about the state of mobile application security in our new report. Synopsys recently released a report, “Peril in a Pandemic: The State of Mobile Application Security,” produced by its Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), examining the state of mobile application security during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many of the third-party components we find in audits have been pulled in their entirety from public software repositories (with GitHub being the most popular these days). But with some frequency we also come across snippets—lines of code that have been copied and pasted into source code. They might be a piece of a GitHub project, but they may also have been taken from a blog site like Stack Overflow or CodeGuru.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a reality. Gartner forecasts 25 billion IoT devices by 2021, and other industry sources and analysts predict even larger numbers. Although projections of unprecedented growth are ubiquitous among industry pundits, the efforts to secure this tsunami of connected devices are in their infancy. The IoT is still relatively new, so it lacks regulations that mandate security.

Dr. Neil Daswani, codirector of the Stanford Advanced Security Certification Program, is coauthor with Moudy Elbayadi of “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone,” released last month by APress. He is also president of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm.

Every spring, my family has an annual ritual of visiting our friendly primary care physician for our physical exams. Although it’s one of the last things my wife wants to do, these routine checkups are an important way to detect problems before they become more noticeable.

Fuzzing helps detect unknown vulnerabilities before software is released. Learn when and where to integrate and automate fuzz testing in your SDLC. Fuzz testing is a highly effective technique for finding weaknesses in software. It’s performed by delivering malformed and unexpected inputs to target software while monitoring it to detect unwanted behavior and log failures.

To solve the supply chain security dilemma, producers must get back to security basics. Get best practices for securing your supply chain. Nobody wants to be known as the weak link in the chain—any chain. But too many organizations are at risk of being just that in the digital supply chain because they haven’t made the cyber security of their products a priority. The most recent evidence of that is the SolarWinds/Orion cyber attack that impacted more than 18,000 organizations.