Writing from our team
Practical articles on custom software development, code review, software security and compliance, written by senior engineers at NorthSight Technologies for businesses in Canada and the United States. Some are also published on LinkedIn.
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Software Code Audit Before You Buy a Software Company in Canada
What a software code audit checks before you buy or invest in a software company: ownership, open source licences, security, maintainability and key people, with ten questions to ask the seller.
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Fixing Penetration Test Findings Before an Enterprise Deal: A Guide for Canadian SaaS Companies
What enterprise security reviewers want after a penetration test, how to fix findings at the root, get the retest and answer the questionnaire honestly, with ten questions to ask your team.
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Quebec Law 25 for Software Companies: What to Build Into Your Product
What Quebec's privacy law means for the software itself: default settings, consent, data export, deletion, incident records and data leaving Quebec, with ten questions to ask your team.
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PHIPA Compliant Software Development in Ontario: What It Really Means
Why there is no PHIPA certificate for software, what Ontario health organizations expect from the software they buy, whether data must stay in Canada, and ten questions to ask a development firm.
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How to Choose a Software Development Company in Canada
What to check before you hire a software firm: who does the work, where your code and data live, what your own customers will ask in a security review, and ten questions to ask on the first call.
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Software Project Rescue
How to tell if your software project needs a rescue, whether to rescue the code or rebuild it, how a rescue actually works, and what to look for in a partner when a build is late, over budget, or going sideways.
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HECVAT Help for SaaS Vendors
What the HECVAT is, who has to complete it, what changed in version 4, and how Canadian SaaS vendors fix the code behind the answers so a university deal can close.
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