Friday 12 October 2018

How Developer Can Secure Software Development?

Data is a crucial thing in today’s software development world. The understanding that a business gains from its data can set it up for its success. However, there is another side of it and if the company want they can misuse it which in turn, of course, ruin its reputation.
Here is some best practice for secure software development.


1: Protecting the brand that customer trust
Companies and businesses are obligated to protect the customers’ information and that is the reason they require secure software development. As cybercriminals are increasing in that case companies need to take care of every single data. Also, if any problem come up they will be held responsible for the protection breaches.

2: Know what the business is and support it with a secure solution
The developers must work with a thorough understanding of the business, to help in the identification of regulatory requirements, applicable risk, and which structure to be used and other technical controls need to be incorporated.

3: Understand the technology of the software 
A thorough understanding of the existing infrastructural components is necessary to ensure that the introduction of the software when deployed. It is essential to determine the impact on the overall security of the software.

4: Ensure the protection of sensitive information
The IT team must consider data classification and protection mechanisms against disclosure, alteration or destruction. Data classification is the conscious decision to assign a level of sensitivity to data and will determine the extent to which the data needs to be secured. Software that transports, processes or stores important data must build in necessary security controls.

5: Design and Develop software with secure features
The security issues in the design of the software and other concerns, such as business logic flaws need to be examined by performing threat models. Also, abuse cases modeling during the design stage of the software development lifecycle will help to solve the issue.
There are several other practices too; however, consider the above-mentioned points as a basic idea.

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