Qr Code Security Awareness

[Frederic Laureano]

WithSANS Developer Training, we clarify the challenges in continuous deployment around the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Teach learners what to watch for in every stage of agile development and ensure your entire team - from developers, to architects, managers and testers to create web applications in a secure environment, and where to place the best security protection for your apps.

Section 6.5 of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) instructs auditors to verify that processes exist that require training in secure coding techniques for developers. However, our training goes a step beyond compliance in offering secure coding techniques.

When producing secure code for web applications, developers often use one of five popular modern programming languages. In our infographic we show you how these languages canbe impacted by the Top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities and how to mitigate the risks.

When producing secure code for web applications, developers often use one of five popular modern programming languages. In our infographic we show you how these languages can\nbe impacted by the Top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities and how to mitigate the risks.

Security threats have become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent in today's digital landscape. Cyberattacks pose a significant risk to data and infrastructure and can have severe repercussions on an organization's reputation and bottom line.

Today, many organizations rely on security scanning tools and pen testers. While investing in both is a valuable aspect of a comprehensive security strategy, it is essential to recognize that these are safety nets that come into play when vulnerabilities slip through the development process.

Security awareness training is designed to educate employees at all levels about the general principles of cybersecurity, best practices for identifying and reporting potential threats, and the importance of following security policies and procedures.

This training delves deep into secure coding practices, common vulnerabilities, secure design principles, and the secure implementation of software features. The best solutions offer the ability for developers to get hands-on practice breaking and fixing code in an application sandbox to build skills to actually keep applications safe.

Despite software developers' indispensable role in shaping applications' security, most computer science degrees do not include comprehensive security education. We are responsible for bridging this educational gap and ensuring developers have the knowledge to build secure software.

As cyber threats evolve, organizations must adapt their approach to cybersecurity. While security scanning tools and pen testers are crucial elements of a robust security strategy, they should not be mistaken as a substitute for secure code training. And while security awareness is a great starting point for building a more secure culture, developers need equipped with the knowledge and skills to write secure code as the first line of defense against potential threats.

By investing in secure code training, organizations can proactively safeguard their software, protect their reputation, and build customer trust, ultimately leading to greater business success in today's cybersecurity landscape.

Before, QR codes were mainly used for advertising purposes to offer a quick way for the consumer to visit a website while reading a paper magazine. Several startups have also tried to launch a QR code payment product over the years. While this has become a wild success in China and other parts of Asia, it never really caught on in other parts of the world.

This article will outline five things that should always be on your mind when you see a QR code out in the world. These five behaviors will be able to keep you safe and handle any situation a QR code scammer might throw at you.

The checks on public QR codes are as simple as the ones on an email phishing attack. Make sure that the URL in your browser after scanning the code is the one you wanted to go to. Similarly, take a good look at the page's design to catch any mistakes.

QR code payments are a business that many companies have tried to build and failed. Ironically, the main reason why these startups never worked out is because of low consumer adoption of QR codes and security issues. Not only were QR codes rare, but they were so easy to use nefariously that investors had a hard time putting money into such projects.

There are many QR code scanning apps on the respective stores hosting them. While some might be simple, well-built software, many of them are scams. They might simply be malware, but most attempt to inject code as they scan QR codes to misdirect you to a fraudulent website.

Like the email QR codes previously mentioned, you should never click on a QR code sent via the messaging functionality of a social network. However, certain social platforms, namely Spotify and Snapchat, use a version of QR codes to allow users to connect easier.

QR codes will likely be in our lives for the foreseeable future. Whether they will still be a niche offering or become more widespread. Either way, you should know how to protect yourself from the scams linked to this technology. The behaviors outlined in this article should cover almost every QR code situation.

At KnowBe4, we take pride in making customer success our #1 priority. Your dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) will work with you to tailor your program requirements based on your organizational goals, objectives, and desired outcomes.

Continuously updated, always-fresh, engaging, customized content is the foundational cornerstone for building a strong security culture at any organization, and no other vendor in the market provides a more expansive, diverse array of security awareness content than KnowBe4.

KnowBe4 is the only platform on the market that combines security awareness and compliance training and testing, simulated phishing, real-time coaching, and security orchestration to truly address the human element of cybersecurity.

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Wizer Managed lets you focus on your business while we handle your security awareness training from A to Z. It's a win/win/win for your employees, your IT team, and your security culture.

Citizen developer platforms have opened up a new world for enterprises. At the same time, the rise of low code platforms has introduced new concerns connected to citizen developer governance and low code platform security.

With the low-code/no-code (LCNC) revolution, these individuals are producing the types of applications that were once relegated to professional software developers. With so many citizen development platforms on the market, and sometimes hundreds of new applications being introduced every year within one company alone, businesses are transforming their legacy processes and joining the digital world at lightning speed.

These low-code security challenges leave organizations and their clients vulnerable to inadvertent data leaks, data breaches, and malicious operations like ransomware attacks, phishing attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS attacks).

An ethical hacker is a professional, trained to find security holes in hardware, software, and system configuration. In fact, ethical hackers are often hired by companies to uncover and fix threats with penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, security audits and social engineering techniques.

As hackers, they are often the best ones to share that perspective and mindset with your citizen developers. Ethical hackers can educate citizen developers about potential risks in web based application development and how best to avoid them before, during and after the low-code/no-code development process. They can potentially design training for your business developers, giving them hands-on experience on what it would be like to try to break into a low-code app and where vulnerabilities can lie.

We mean that citizen developers should learn from security policy violations. If a citizen developer inadvertently creates an application that violates security best practices and opens the organization up to risk, they should be informed about the issue and how to resolve it.

The big issue with that last step is that up until now, InfoSec and AppSec have lacked appropriate governance and security tools for low-code/no-code platforms for citizen developers. Without visibility, they are unable to pinpoint vulnerabilities, much less educate citizen developers on how to remediate and avoid those vulnerabilities in the future.

As security technology advances and focuses on the vulnerabilities associated with citizen development platforms, information security professionals will be able to better help their business developers become part of an organization-wide governance and security effort.

Through agile learning, organizations can transform development teams that have very basic code defense awareness and skills into security-skilled advocates for code quality and resilience. The teams that practice security as a foundational part of code development as opposed to a frustrating roadblock to innovation can grow confident in their ability to build code that's safe while speeding up their software release time. As a result of staying up to date on new threats and mitigation techniques, these teams can eliminate bottlenecks in the form of product rework and remediation due to vulnerabilities.

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