October 2011 marks the eighth annual
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
sponsored by the
Department of Homeland Security
in cooperation with the
National Cyber Security Alliance
(NCSA) and the
Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center
(MS-ISAC). Though the month is geared mostly toward informing and empowering individual consumers, as software developers,
here at 5AM we take our responsibility to ensure that the applications we create are as impervious as possible to web-based security threats
while balancing the need for them to be useful, usable, and used
.
Among our many
clients
, 5AM currently
develops software products for
the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-- including caArray, caIntegrator, CTRP, and FIREBIRD.
Each
of these products include a web interface component where cyber security is absolutely imperative.
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