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Flawed Mobile Voting App Highlights Need For Proper Testing

Secure Development Life Cycle Plan (SDLC) , Democratic Party , Mobile Apps , Compliance , Iowa Voting App , COVID-19 , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

When apps are developed in a hurry and not properly put through their paces, the risk of something going wrong is high, as the Iowa Democratic Party just learned to its cost. Creating secure, fully functional mobile apps takes time and requires stringent testing. In the aftermath of the delayed results for Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses, it emerged that the app used to tabulate the votes was inadequately tested. Leaving the politics and possible motives aside, cybersecurityfalse