Can a software security standard take off industry-wide?

Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here.    FOLLOW SD TIMES IN THE NEWS CISQ aims to ensure industry-wide software quality standards By Rob Marvin The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) has released two specifications to help organizations increase software quality. Managed by the Object Management Group (OMG), CISQ was chartered in 2009 to create specifications for measuring source code quality that can be approved by the OMG. “[The] industry needs standard, low-cost, automated measures for evaluating software size and structural quality that can be used in controlling the quality, cost and risk of software that is produced either internally or by third parties such as outsourcers,” said Bill Curtis, CISQ executive director and senior vice president and chief scientist at CAST Software... READ MORE » PLATINUM SPONSOR New Wearables TechCon Classes Announced – Biggest Show of 2015! Wearables TechCon will be the biggest OEM Wearables event of 2015. Classes are being posted daily! Check them out HERE. Wearables TechCon is like a CES® for OEMs and will feature more than 60 sessions for OEM builders, designers and developers of Wearable computing technology as well as a large exhibit hall where you can investigate the leading edge of Wearable technology firsthand. More than 1,300 people registered for the first event, Wearables DevCon, and we expect more than 2,500 in Santa Clara on March 9-11. Get a jump on the future and register today; the full three-day technical conference (both tracks) is just $945! » Register by Jan. 9 and save $450 A blended approach to managing data By Alex Handy Making the case for version control, testing environments and continuous integration when it comes to software development these days is a no brainer. But when it comes to the data behind your important applications, life-cycle management and data flow automation are still new ideas struggling to find their place in the market. 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