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CAST is a pioneer in Software Intelligence and a Euronext listed company. It has previously educated businesses on the importance of software architecture scans. Like MRIs, these show the internal workings of a company’s software and highlight potential future problems.
The company raised the concern that visibility of software health and vulnerabilities should be available at board-level. Raising awareness around this issue regarding the TSB IT meltdown, the London Stock Exchange outage, previous NHS and airline glitches. CAST believes this is the symptom of software development’s lack of constant, automated health check-ups and diagnosis it needs. Bill Curtis, SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST commented below.
Bill Curtis, SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST:
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