How Will You Comply with the SBOM Mandate?
The clock has started on the software bills of material compliance date. Start preparing now.
Don’t Trade Security, Regulatory Compliance For Speed To Market
Many governmental agencies and industry-sponsored consortiums are enacting legislation and crafting regulatory standards to protect the users and their data.
How to Convince Your Clients that Compliance is More Than Checking Boxes
Merchants need to protect sensitive cardholder data, and their own businesses, by achieving and maintaining PCI compliance.
From Social Media to GRC Solutions, Successful Apps Share One Secret Ingredient
With flexible data models to store information and access different types of data, users can unlock insights by identifying and assessing relationships with no previous connection.
A Closer Look at the Tech Diversity Problem
ISVs, software developers, and the tech industry as a whole can, and should, do more to build diverse teams that bring new perspectives and innovation to their work.
Don’t Skip These Security Best Practices
Security has become a critical need among businesses in all verticals. Your customers are no exception.
Steps to Complying with Consumer Protection Regulations
What’s your strategy for dealing with Consumer Protection Regulations?
NIST SP 800-171: Are You Developing Compliant Solutions?
ISVs can add software features that help customers comply with the security requirements of NIST SP 800-171.
ISVs: Get Ready for the California Consumer Privacy Act
The California Consumer Privacy Act website’s homepage starts off by saying, “They said it couldn’t be done … But we did it anyway.”
On June 28, 2018, the governor signed AB 375 into law, "the most sweeping, comprehensive, and empowering consumer privacy rights in the country." After 629,000 Californians signed...
Why North American-focused ISVs Should Care About GDPR Compliance
The European Union will begin enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018, and businesses that process the personal data or monitor behavior of people within the EU are scrambling to achieve GDPR compliance.
As a North American-based ISV, you may be aware of the approaching GDPR...
What ISVs Need to Know about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The clock is ticking on the May 25, 2018, enforcement deadline for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and your customers may be looking for help to comply.
GDPR Changes Data Collection in EU
The General Data Protection Regulation’s goal is to protect EU citizens from data breaches by...
How Does your Software Align with the Hottest M&A Trends?
At RSPA Inspire 2018, a business thought leadership conference I recently attended, Jeff Riley, VP of mergers and acquisitions, for The Corum Group, gave a presentation on the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) tech landscape. What struck me most about his presentation was how many ISVs are naturally aligned with...
First Data Could Get Tough with Unsecured Merchants
In a few days, First Data will start to disable the accounts of customers who access its systems over unsecure connections.
The company has been sending out notifications and reminders for over a year about changes that will be made to its Datawire service beginning on February 15th.
If merchants have taken...
Two Security Threats ISVs Can’t Ignore: Spectre and Meltdown
We all knew it wouldn’t be long before the next major computer security vulnerability scare would emerge, but I must admit this latest is a doozy – both in its timing and scope. Known collectively as Spectre and Meltdown, the bugs exploit flaws in microprocessors (especially Intel). Even Mac...
Test Your Payment Integration IQ
Let's face it. As a software developer, you want to spend time on building better software that meets the needs of the customers you serve, not struggling with payment processing integrations. Unfortunately, if you want credit card processing to be a part of your software, you need to have...
