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Dr. Anita D’Amico speaking at NYS Cyber Security Conference and Annual Symposium on Information Assurance

Dr. Anita D’Amico, CEO of Code Dx, Inc. and Hassan Radwan, Director of Software Development will be speaking at the 18th New York State Cyber Security Conference and 10th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ’15). The conference is held in Albany, New York on June 2 and 3 at the Empire State Plaza. The Conference features prominent industry security experts presenting the latest innovations in cyber security, and includes peer networking, and sessions on leading-edge security topics and issues. Both Dr. Anita D’Amico and Hassan Radwan will be presenting on Tuesday, June 2nd from 2:10PM to 3:00PM

Secure Decisions2017-01-12T14:43:31-05:00May-2015|Categories: Events, News|

Secure Decisions’ Cyber Security Education Technology Part of National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

NORTHPORT, NY, April 22, 2015 – Cyber security education technology developed by Secure Decisions, the cyber security division of Applied Visions, Inc., will be part of the 2015 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC). Participants in this year’s competition will be required to create visually creative training materials using the unique ”CyberWISE” technology developed by Secure Decisions, with assistance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Winners from 10 regional competitions will compete at NCCDC on managing and protecting the cyber infrastructure of a simulated commercial network. Teams are scored based on their ability to detect and respond to outside threats, maintain availability of existing services such as mail servers and web servers, respond to business requests such as the addition or removal of additional services, and balance security needs against business [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-22T11:12:59-04:00Apr-2015|Categories: News|Tags: branching stories, choose your own adventure, comics, computer hygiene, cyber competition, cyber security, DHS, learning technologies, NCCDC, safe computing, Secure Decisions, visualization|

Code Dx Ranked 15 on Cybersecurity 500 List of Hot Companies for 2015

NORTHPORT, NY, February 11, 2015 – Code Dx, a provider of a robust suite of fast and affordable tools that help software developers and security analysts find, prioritize and visualize software vulnerabilities, today announced that it has been ranked 15th in the Cybersecurity 500 list of hot cybersecurity companies to watch for 2015. Cybersecurity Ventures, a research and market intelligence firm, ranked the companies that provide the best technology solutions for protecting large enterprises, small to mid-sized businesses and consumers. The rankings are based on the feedback from CISOs and end-user practitioners, problem(s) the company solves, online research, product demonstrations, notable implementations, among other criteria. “We are honored to be ranked so high on this list of innovative cybersecurity companies,” said Anita D’Amico, Ph.D., CEO of Code Dx. “As a young company with a robust [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:37-04:00Feb-2015|Categories: News|Tags: application security, application security testing, Code Dx, cyber security, DHS, open source static analysis tools, risk management, SAST, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, static analysis, static source code analysis, visual analytics, visualization, vulnerability assessment tools|

Code Dx Version 1.6 Empowers Developers to Identify Software Vulnerabilities Before Hackers Can Attack

Integration with Visual Studio, Eclipse, Git, and Jenkins enables the identification of weaknesses throughout the software development lifecycle NORTHPORT, NY, January 29, 2015 – Code Dx, a provider of a robust suite of fast and affordable tools that help software developers and security analysts find, prioritize and visualize software vulnerabilities, today announced the release of version 1.6 of its innovative software assurance solution, Code Dx®. The robust software tool now offers seamless integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse, as well as Git and Jenkins, enabling developers to more efficiently and effectively identify, report and fix weaknesses throughout the software development lifecycle. The number of U.S. data breaches reached a record high in 2014 according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, increasing 27.5 percent over breaches reported in 2013. Industry experts and the Department of Homeland [...]

Secure Decisions2020-04-16T11:43:03-04:00Feb-2015|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: application security, application security testing, Code Dx, cyber security, DHS, open source static analysis tools, risk management, SAST, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, static analysis, static source code analysis, visual analytics, visualization|

Secure Decisions Wins U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cyber Security Education Technology Contract

NORTHPORT, NY, December 10, 2014 – Secure Decisions, the cyber security division of Applied Visions, Inc., has received an award from the Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) to develop technology for cyber security education. The goal is to develop CyberWISE (Web-based Interactive Stories for [Cyber] Education), a tool to simplify and accelerate the creation and delivery of interactive educational materials for safe computing awareness. Secure Decisions will partner with Stony Brook University under this DHS S&T contract. CyberWISE will help educators and cyber security experts develop interactive, comic-like curriculum aimed at educating middle-school children about the pitfalls of unsafe computer usage. The curriculum development technology uses branching, graphic stories, or choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) comics, to teach kids about how to avoid the latest threats to security and privacy. CYOA comics are [...]

Secure Decisions2017-06-22T11:09:55-04:00Dec-2014|Categories: News|Tags: branching stories, choose your own adventure, comics, computer hygiene, cyber security, DHS, education, learning technologies, safe computing, Secure Decisions, Stony Brook, visualization|

Code Dx Pushes the Limits of Application Security Testing and SAST Tool Integration With Version 1.5

Code Dx Version 1.5 Offers Small and Medium-Sized Businesses an Easy and Affordable Way to Test the Software They Build or Buy for Vulnerabilities NORTHPORT, NY–(Marketwired – Oct 8, 2014) – Code Dx, a provider of a robust suite of fast and affordable tools that help software developers and security analysts find, prioritize and visualize software vulnerabilities, today announced the release of Code Dx® Version 1.5 to meet the ever-growing threat of computer attacks initiated through exploitation of vulnerabilities in software. The newest version of this software assurance analytics solution includes an expanded set of tools and increased performance and usability features allowing software developers to easily consolidate and normalize software vulnerabilities detected by multiple static application security testing (SAST) tools. Studies show that more than 80 percent of computer attacks are traceable to vulnerabilities [...]

Secure Decisions2020-04-16T11:43:35-04:00Oct-2014|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: application security, application security testing, Code Dx, cyber security, DHS, open source static analysis tools, risk management, SAST, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, static analysis, static source code analysis, visual analytics, visualization|

Madison-based SWAMP, Secure Decisions Partner to Enhance Software Security

Partnership to focus on building a powerful and publicly accessible resource to improve the software that drives everyday life. Madison, WI (PRWEB) July 14, 2014 Secure Decisions, a leading provider of assessment tools to enhance software security, is partnering with the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP) to build a powerful and publicly accessible resource to improve the software that drives everyday life. The SWAMP, implemented by a group of four research institutions and housed in the Morgridge Institute for Research, is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) S&T to advance software security practices by building a free facility with a diverse repository of assessment tools available for public and private industry use. It is powered by an advanced computing platform that supports continuous software assurance. “We need better tools and easier access to these [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:40-04:00Jul-2014|Categories: News|

Secure Decisions releases Code Dx Version 1.2

Code Dx v1.2 adds capabilities for discovering, analyzing and visualizing software vulnerabilities from open source and commercial static application security testing tools. NORTHPORT, NY June 27, 2014– The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions, Inc. has released a new version of its software assurance analytics tool, Code Dx Version 1.2. Code Dx, a software assurance analytics tool that consolidates and normalizes software vulnerabilities detected by multiple static application security testing (SAST) tools, was developed under a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Its visual analytics help engineering professionals – including Software Developers, Security Auditors, Compliance Officers and Quality Assurance engineers - triage and prioritize detected software vulnerabilities for effective remediation. The new Enterprise Edition of Code Dx has added support for a cadre of commercial [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:40-04:00Jun-2014|Categories: News|Tags: application security, Code Dx, Code Dx Enterprise Edition, Code Dx Standard Edition, cyber security, DHS, open source static analysis tools, risk management, SAST, SBIR, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, static analysis, static source code analysis, visual analytics for source code analysis, visualization|

Secure Decisions Premieres Code Pulse™ v1.0 Code Coverage Analytics to Support Application Penetration Testing

NORTHPORT, NY, May 12, 2014 – SecureDecisions, the cyber security division of Applied Visions, Inc., today announced the release of Code Pulse™ v1.0, an open source and free software assurance analytics tool that provides insight into the real-time code coverage of black box software testing activities. Code Pulse listens in behind the scenes while users perform their manual or automated testing and identifies code coverage in real-time as the tests are being performed. It visually provides an understanding of coverage overlaps and boundaries of multiple different dynamic application security testing (DAST) and penetration testing tools. Code Pulse presents test coverage information in an easy-to-understand visual form that helps testers determine which parts and how much of an application has been covered. This real-time coverage feedback makes it easy to adjust testing activity based on the observed [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:41-04:00May-2014|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: application security, BAA, black box testing, code coverage analysis testing, Code Pulse, cyber security, DAST, DHS, dynamic application security testing, penetration testing, real-time code coverage analysis, risk management, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, visual analytics for source code analysis, visualization|

Secure Decisions releases Code Dx Version 1.1

Code Dx v1.1 Adds Capabilities for Discovering, Analyzing and Visualizing Vulnerabilities in .NET Source Code NORTHPORT, NY, April 16, 2013– The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has released a new version of its software assurance analytics tool, Code Dx Version 1.1. Code Dx, a software assurance analytics tool that consolidates and normalizes software vulnerabilities detected by multiple static application security testing (SAST) tools, was developed under a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Its visual analytics help many engineering professionals – including Software Developers, Security Auditors, Compliance Officers and Quality Assurance engineers - triage and prioritize detected software vulnerabilities for efficient remediation. This new version of Code Dx provides several significant features and upgrades that support the analysis of .NET code bases. In addition [...]

Secure Decisions2017-04-27T12:00:41-04:00Apr-2014|Categories: News|Tags: application security, Code Dx, cyber security, DHS, open source static analysis tools, risk management, SAST, SBIR, Secure Decisions, software assurance, software security, static analysis, static source code analysis, visual analytics for source code analysis, visualization|