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Securing apps: scan code for vulnerabilities or rewrite from scratch?

April 8, 2016

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) states that 90% of security incidents result from exploits against defects in software.

”The SANS Institute 2015 State of Application Security Report” states that many information security engineers don’t understand software development—and most software developers don’t understand security.”  Frank Zinghini knows a thing or two about both topics. He is founder and CEO at Applied Visions, a 40-person secure software development firm headquartered on Long Island, N.Y., with another office in Clifton Park, N.Y. Zinghini has been writing code, managing software engineers, and building security products for more than two decades. He shed more light on how to bridge application development and security in a recent interview.

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