How will you protect your business from software failures?
CodeCover is the first business focused exclusively on using AI to reduce the rapidly growing risk in the software applications that run your business. If you’re like most businesses, everything you do from back-office operations to sales depends on multiple software applications with thousands of components. Your business is probably running on 100x more lines of code than it was just ten years ago. And AI is generating new code at unprecedented levels, it is projected that by 2028 90% of all software will be generated by AI. Software development has simply outpaced the ability of human beings to properly manage or quality assure it. Your software may be your largest, fastest growing, least understood business risk.
Why are software risks increasing exponentially and why do you need to treat this problem differently than you have in the past?
AI Generated Code
More and more code is being developed by AI at an unprecedented pace without traditional software development process inputs or controls. This is not inherently a bad thing, but what is needed is a new way to effectively oversee and quality assure AI generated code, ideally without slowing the process down. You need high quality, high integrity code assurance at an AI pace.
Complexity
A “best practice” for developing software today is to leverage third-party components. This can increase productivity but it makes maintaining the code much harder and riskier. There may be dozens, even hundreds of third-party components in an application all having a specific version. What happens when a component breaks , does your team have the knowledge to fix it? When you have to upgrade components will they still work with the other components? Your risk of software failure is based on the weakest link and today’s software has substantially more of them.
Intellectual Property Infringement
Your software probably includes dozens maybe even hundreds of third-party components, and they all have licenses. For many open-source components it is harmless enough, but others not so harmless. For example, does putting that component into your production application trigger additional licensing? Is your software infringing on someone’s intellectual property or building a debit to be reckoned with some day? Does the license of an obscure component in your code compel you to release your software and your IP to your competitors? Do you trust that every developer understands the licensing impact of every component?
Increased Offshore Utilization
Historically software was architected, functionally designed and tested onshore; and developed offshore in lower cost development centers. This process had built in quality assurances. The trend now is to move more of the software development process to offshore including architecture, design and even testing. Today’s software development projects have less input and less oversight from your team making them inherently riskier.
Geopolitical Risk
More and more of the software development process is being done offshore. This was historically mostly India, but now development centers are global including APAC, LATAM and Eastern Europe. In a time when global cyberterrorism is increasing, have the developers working in your software been properly vetted? Do you know what developers have access to your software and do you know what they are doing? Your software is probably the least protected asset you have and the highest unmitigated risk.
What is The Solution?
AI Tooling
The layers of complexity in today’s software mandates the use of AI tooling to quality assure it. Human review can no longer do an adequate assessment, and certainly not as quickly or efficiently. Our AI tooling enables us to do a better, faster assessment of your applications in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost.
Third-Party Inspection
Most risks are best mitigated by an expert third-party inspection. At CodeCover we know how to build software, but we don’t build software. We have no political or business reason to be biased in our assessments. However, once our assessment is complete, we can help address any issues by partnering with your in-house team, a developer or advisor.
We are a SaaS company and our product has evolved over fifteen years. CodeCover’s software assessment report provided me the first real understanding I have had of our code base. While the code scored well, there were several great suggestions for improvements. I highly recommend this for any CEO of a software company.
Scott Reuter, CEO, Product Data Command
