Security News > 2020 > October > Holiday Shopping Craze, COVID-19 Spur Retail Security Storm

How is retail security going to face different challenges this year, with how applications are being used and being vulnerable and things like that? But before we discuss that, do you want to talk a little bit about the state of software security report and some of the big takeaways and trends that you saw there?

So we said, well, what what other factors are there? And so that's, that's something that when we looked at it, we thought about certain things that you just inherit, right? There's certain things that you don't really control, you don't control the size of your organization, the size of your application, the amount of security debt that you inherit, that's kind of like your nature, right? But then there are things that you do control, you control, how frequently you scan, what types of scanning that you use, different technologies, how regular your scan cadence is.

There's still things that you can do as developer to improve the overall security the application so I thought that was a really, really cool finding, to kind of isolate all these different factors and kind of show the correlation there.

Have you seen any sort of effect of that on the state of software security? Or, I'm not sure, whether it's cyber criminals kind of looking for more vulnerable endpoints or different flaws, or whether it's kind of a decrease of security itself, secure measures? Not sure what you're seeing there?

With the retail holiday shopping season upon us, I think that those are also, you know, evolving in that direction, as well.

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https://threatpost.com/holiday-shopping-covid-19-retail-security/160550/