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jacquesmtoday at 6:17 AM0 repliesview on HN

I know what the standard requires. I also know what happens in practice and typically the auditors are understaffed, overworked and their technical expertise is lower than it should be. As a result a lot of stuff slips through the cracks.

What does get flagged though is not getting employee permission for putting photos on the 'team' page. It's good they flag that. I'd rather they also went in much deeper on tech issues.

I've reviewed 270 companies to date. I have yet to find a single one that had audited the source code they imported. It's not untypical to find an installation that automatically updates a whole raft of dependencies during the build phase. And absolutely nobody looks at that code until something breaks.