Safeguarding Your Code: The Critical Importance of Dependency Scanning
- Posted: April 11, 2024
- By: Chervine Bhiwoo
- Category: Blog / Cyber Security
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Today’s applications rely heavily on libraries and frameworks, yet the risks posed by vulnerabilities in these components are often underestimated. A single vulnerable library can grant attackers full control over an application, compromising data, transactions, files, and even Internet communication. The Log4j Vulnerability in 2021 highlighted the severity of such risks, allowing attackers to execute […]
Mobile App Security: Revealing Vulnerabilities for Enhanced Protection
- Posted: March 23, 2024
- By: Chervine Bhiwoo
- Category: Cyber Security
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Your teams develop mobile apps and you’ve already implemented all the security best practices, yet you want even more peace of mind? This blog is for you. Recently, I’ve been learning about reverse engineering Android apps and exploring how attackers see your app and uncover vulnerabilities. This hands-on experience led me to search for a […]
Solving Global SMS OTP Delivery Challenges: A Twilio Verify Case Study
- Posted: March 22, 2024
- By: Chervine Bhiwoo
- Category: Blog / Problem solving
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Howdy! In this post I will explain the challenge if sending SMS OTP worldwide and how this can be fixed. Problem statement Various international customers repeatedly complain they do not receive OTP via SMS. Debugging this problem takes a lot of time as you need to debug at app level, SMS provider level and the […]
Backbase engage 2022
- Posted: January 5, 2023
- By: Chervine Bhiwoo
- Category: Presentation
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Backbase engage is a conference emphasising the omni-channel strategy of banks and was held in Amsterdam in October 2022. In this edition, I was invited to share my experience of building omni-channel applications and to share and discuss about the opportunities for banks to improve their software engineering process to achieve higher scale. I intervened […]
Developers conference 2022
- Posted: December 5, 2022
- By: Chervine Bhiwoo
- Category: Blog
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The annual Developers conference was finally back in 2022 and it was in person! This time, I presented about the the strategies to improve the software development process to allow an organisation to scale in terms of teams, application usage, load and delivery. Below is a summary of the topics that was discussed: 1. Improving […]