{"id":10277,"date":"2022-07-19T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:49:54","slug":"protov8-8-reasons-your-software-needs-a-code-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/protov8-8-reasons-your-software-needs-a-code-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Protov8: Our 8 Reasons Your  Software Needs a Code Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A software code audit analyzes source code with the goal of discovering bugs, breaches, and issues that affect\u00a0 programming conventions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s 8 reasons why your software project needs one:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> For Angel and Venture Capital investors, software code audits enable you to see the truth during mergers and acquisitions, hiring, and pre-funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Make the right choice when hiring a full-time engineer or agency, or evaluating your current development team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Discovering weaknesses and vulnerabilities in your source code before launching your product will identify problems, mitigate risks, and save valuable time and money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Codebases older than a couple of years are very prone to security issues and vulnerabilities that could cause serious, and sometimes unrecoverable, downtime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Guidance for the technical development of your app when scaling and adding new features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Check database security, data structure, data integrity, and eliminate vulnerabilities and the potential for breaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Evaluation of best practices for code structure speeds up code execution and ensures modules and libraries are safe, valid, and up to date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> An independent code audit gives you the unbiased set of eyes and expertise that will tell you the truth about your code.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A software code audit analyzes source code with the goal of discovering bugs, breaches, and issues that affect\u00a0 programming conventions. Here&#8217;s 8 reasons why your software project needs one: 1. For Angel and Venture Capital investors, software code audits enable you to see the truth during mergers and acquisitions, hiring, and pre-funding. 2. Make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,132,130],"tags":[171,178,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protovate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}