Outsourcing makes you vulnerable to hackers

More than 60 per cent of IT professionals believe outsourcing code increases the likelihood of hacking. In fact, 55 per cent believe it is far safer to write programs internally, according to a survey from Fortify Software.

Which is fine - but you can only write code internally if you haven't already outsourced most of your IT department. And with increasing amounts of grunt work - such as development and testing - being outsourced, IT professionals can only do so much internal work.

In fact, the survey suggests as much as a quarter of companies outsource application development, but do not specify security processes or technologies to ensure the security of outsourced applications.

So, the firms are probably asking for trouble - especially as the survey also suggests as much as 81 per cent of companies believe their systems are vulnerable to hacking.