Outsource your code & you're more likely to be hacked

In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at least some of their coding practice, with 90 percent outsourcing more than 40 percent!  

With this in mind the hacker’s future looks rosy as outsourcing applications is on the up, with 78 percent of organisations that say software development is business critical for them choosing to outsource their vital applications. But security is being left out in the cold - with companies failing to build security in when they outsource the development of their critical applications, according to a report released today by Quocirca and supported by Fortify Software.

The survey has found that over 60% of companies that outsource the coding of their critical applications do not mandate that security must be built into the applications.

 In fact, the study has uncovered the chilling statistic that 20 percent of UK companies do not even consider security when building their applications - thus potentially leaving a great big stable door open to the hacking community.

Yet outsourcing is very much on the up.

The report which was carried out amongst 250 C level executives and IT Directors from mainly 1000+ employee sized corporations from the UK, US and Germany, reveals that outsourcing of code development is widespread - and growing in importance.