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Girls Who Code highlights unseen contributions of women coders
“ With this campaign , we ’ re hoping to inspire the next generation of women coders by showing them what the world would look like if they weren ’ t building it , designing it , coding it . Because without their contributions , the world as we know it , would fall apart .”
The organization recently launched ‘ Missing Code ’, a digital campaign that illustrated how broken the Internet would be if not for the work done by women .
The international organization Girls Who
Code is highlighting the contributions of women in technology .
The campaign group is seeking to shift perceptions of what a programmer looks like , while also drawing attention to the gender gap within the technology industry with women taking up just 26 % of computing jobs in 2020 .
“ There is still a perception out there that coding isn ’ t for girls , but that ’ s not true – we know that a huge part of the web was coded by women ,” said Reshma Saujani , Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code .
Girls Who Code is an non-profit organization seeking to lead the movement to inspire , educate and equip young women with the computing skills needed to pursue 21st century opportunities .
Since launching in 2012 , Girls Who Code has reached 500 million people through its work and 300,000 girls through its inperson programming .
Retail and hospitality outpaces other sectors in fixing software security vulnerabilities
Veracode , one of the largest global providers of application security testing ( AST ) solutions , has released new findings that show the retail and hospitality sector fixes flaws in its software at a faster rate than five other sectors . The findings come from Veracode ’ s analysis of more than 130,000 applications .
The ability to find and fix potential security defects quickly is a necessity , particularly in an industry that requires rapid response to changing customer demands . Retail and hospitality also track a high volume of personal information about consumers through loyalty cards and membership accounts , tying into marketing data from third parties , which is enabled by more software . Web applications attacks are the primary vector for breaches in retail , with personal or payment data exploited in about half of all breaches , according to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report .
The research found 76 % of applications in the retail and hospitality sector have at least one flaw , which is about average when compared to economic sectors such as financial services , technology , healthcare and others . However , 26 % of application flaws are high-severity issues – the secondlargest proportion among all six sectors – that require urgent attention . Veracode research shows that the retail and hospitality industry rank second-best for overall fix rate : half of its flaws are remediated in just 125 days , nearly one month faster than the nextfastest sector .
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