Bridging the gap between cloud security and development
Professor Avishai Wool, AlgoSec CTO and Co-founder, just unveiled a compelling video on "Bridging the Gap between Cloud Security and Development.".
Code doesn’t write itself and software doesn’t secure itself, as much as the race is on to make that happen. At the beginning and end of everything in software is people and, importantly, people interacting with each other. Having great tools doesn’t matter if no one uses them, and having great policies doesn’t matter if no one enforces them.
This spring, Australian authorities were able to arrest a cybercrime syndicate that had conducted BEC attacks on at least 15 individuals and organizations with stolen profits totaling $1.7 million (USD). If those numbers seem shocking, they’re part of a growing upward trend of BEC attacks that shows no sign of slowing down.