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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. What if theres an urgent security fix? If theres a security threat and potential exposure, you have to go through the testing process as quickly as you can, Prouty says.

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The True Cost of Neglecting Quality Assurance: Lessons from Recent Tech Failures

Perficient

The Importance of Quality Assurance in Software Development The pressure to deliver software quickly and cost-effectively is among the highest priorities of business leaders. However, recent high-profile tech failures serve as stark reminders of the critical importance of robust Quality Assurance (QA) practices.

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Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance. Security is yet another issue: is an AI system able to red-team an application?

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5 reasons QA teams need to pump up application security training

TechBeacon

For software quality-assurance testers and engineers, acquiring new skills has never been more important.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

TechCrunch

Rather, our goal is to replace the inevitable manual quality assurance that everyone is still having to do and will increasingly have to do as device fragmentation grows in the next five to ten years.” . “Presently, Mobot is not positioning ourselves as a competitor or replacement for emulators and automated testing.

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Top 10 governance, risk, and compliance certifications

CIO

It’s crucial to ensure your organization is operating lawfully in every country it operates, that your business is protected from cybersecurity threats, and that your company both manages risk and establishes processes to govern those tasks. Why are GRC certifications important? Is GRC certification worth it?

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Application security platform NeuraLegion raises $4.7 million seed led by DNX Ventures

TechCrunch

Application security platform NeuraLegion announced today it has raised a $4.7 It currently offers NexDAST for dynamic application security testing, and NexPLOIT to integrate application security into SDLC (software development life-cycle). A video call group photo of NeuraLegion’s team working remotely around the world.