Do you know that the more experienced outsourcers are 3x more likely to stipulate software security requirements in contracts than those organizations who use outsourcing in a more ad hoc fashion? Or that less than 50% of financial firms mandate that there are controls over who handles their data, compared to 70% or more in the public sector and in retail? Today, organizations across industry sectors turn to outsourcing to speed application development and reduce costs. Now, more than ever, these same organizations must embrace a better way of ensuring security best practices with their outsourced development work are adhered to.

Join Ounce Labs and our feature speaker, Ms. Fran Howarth, Principal Analyst of Quocirca Ltd., present findings from a September 2008 report on Winning Outsourcing Strategies - How to Increase Value and Reduce Risk. Come hear what 200 interviews with organizations from the US and UK have to say about their outsourcing strategies as Ms. Howarth presents actionable insights for today's conscientious IT and security departments. This free one-hour webcast will focus on how organizations can build better measures and metrics in their contracts and processes to ensure that security best practices are embedded and adhered to within their outsourced application development partners.

Learn how to:

• Develop a contract that incorporates security best practices
• Implement security controls within your process
• Derive greater value and reduce risk for all your outsourcing initiatives.