The document discusses how to gain buy-in for an application security program from key teams within an organization. It emphasizes that application security affects all employees and that input is needed from the development team, legal team, procurement team, marketing team, and executive team. It provides advice on how to approach each team, including consulting the development team early in the planning process, focusing conversations with the legal team on risk reduction, and leveraging the procurement team to influence vendor security practices. Gaining input and support from these internal stakeholders is crucial to the success of the application security program.
The document discusses software risk management and the role of security personnel. It recommends adopting a spiral model methodology for software development that involves iterative refinement. It emphasizes considering security during requirements gathering and risk analysis. It argues the importance of having a software security lead who understands both development and security. This person should act as a resource rather than obstacle to developers. They should ensure security is represented during each phase of the software lifecycle. Risk assessment requires identifying potential attacks based on system specifications and then ranking risks to prioritize mitigation efforts.
Unlike more tangible technologies where a failed implementation causes a down network, SIEM (security information and event management) requires a more qualitative approach to determining success or failure. The surprising reality is that most SIEM projects completely fail to deliver any discernable bene ts to the organization and are abandoned in frustration
www.rkon.com
This presentation goes over core principles involved in launching secure web applications and effectively managing security in a cloud services environment.
Setting up a secure development life cycle with OWASP - seba deleersnyderSebastien Deleersnyder
Using the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) as a framework, this talk covers the major application security controls of a secure development lifecycle program as provided by OWASP. Featured OWASP open source material include: OWASP guidelines and tools such as ESAPI, ZAProxy, as well as educational resources.
Open Source has become the key building block for application development in today's market, where companies are under constant pressure to accelerate time to market.
However, the increasing adoption of open source components has introduced new security challenges that most teams are not prepared to mitigate in their current posture. Join Sharon Sharlin, Product Marketing Manager at WhiteSource, as she presents best practices that security teams should implement in order to enable their developers to harness the power of open source without slowing them down or compromising security.
The document discusses designing next-generation threat identification solutions. It summarizes traditional threat modeling approaches and identifies challenges, such as incomplete threat coverage, inability to follow processes rigorously, and lack of suitability for new development scenarios. It proposes key elements for new solutions, including making the business the driver, empowering developers, using continuous and customizable processes, and taking a collaborative approach. The goals are to address resource constraints, conduct analysis throughout product lifecycles, and standardize flexible processes for different teams and products.
This document discusses the importance of software modernization for companies still relying on legacy systems. It defines legacy software as older systems that are difficult to modify and maintain. While costly, software modernization is necessary to keep up with changing technology, ensure system stability, and reduce maintenance costs. The document recommends companies first assess their legacy systems to understand the risks of maintaining the status quo versus upgrading. Based on this assessment, companies can then develop a plan and deadline to modernize their systems incrementally in a controlled manner.
The document discusses an application security platform that provides end-to-end security across web, mobile, and legacy applications. It utilizes multiple techniques like static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and web perimeter monitoring to identify vulnerabilities. The platform was designed for scale as a cloud-based service to securely manage global application infrastructures. It implements structured governance programs backed by security experts to help enterprises reduce risks across their software supply chains.
The document discusses software risk management and the role of security personnel. It recommends adopting a spiral model methodology for software development that involves iterative refinement. It emphasizes considering security during requirements gathering and risk analysis. It argues the importance of having a software security lead who understands both development and security. This person should act as a resource rather than obstacle to developers. They should ensure security is represented during each phase of the software lifecycle. Risk assessment requires identifying potential attacks based on system specifications and then ranking risks to prioritize mitigation efforts.
Unlike more tangible technologies where a failed implementation causes a down network, SIEM (security information and event management) requires a more qualitative approach to determining success or failure. The surprising reality is that most SIEM projects completely fail to deliver any discernable bene ts to the organization and are abandoned in frustration
www.rkon.com
This presentation goes over core principles involved in launching secure web applications and effectively managing security in a cloud services environment.
Setting up a secure development life cycle with OWASP - seba deleersnyderSebastien Deleersnyder
Using the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) as a framework, this talk covers the major application security controls of a secure development lifecycle program as provided by OWASP. Featured OWASP open source material include: OWASP guidelines and tools such as ESAPI, ZAProxy, as well as educational resources.
Open Source has become the key building block for application development in today's market, where companies are under constant pressure to accelerate time to market.
However, the increasing adoption of open source components has introduced new security challenges that most teams are not prepared to mitigate in their current posture. Join Sharon Sharlin, Product Marketing Manager at WhiteSource, as she presents best practices that security teams should implement in order to enable their developers to harness the power of open source without slowing them down or compromising security.
The document discusses designing next-generation threat identification solutions. It summarizes traditional threat modeling approaches and identifies challenges, such as incomplete threat coverage, inability to follow processes rigorously, and lack of suitability for new development scenarios. It proposes key elements for new solutions, including making the business the driver, empowering developers, using continuous and customizable processes, and taking a collaborative approach. The goals are to address resource constraints, conduct analysis throughout product lifecycles, and standardize flexible processes for different teams and products.
This document discusses the importance of software modernization for companies still relying on legacy systems. It defines legacy software as older systems that are difficult to modify and maintain. While costly, software modernization is necessary to keep up with changing technology, ensure system stability, and reduce maintenance costs. The document recommends companies first assess their legacy systems to understand the risks of maintaining the status quo versus upgrading. Based on this assessment, companies can then develop a plan and deadline to modernize their systems incrementally in a controlled manner.
The document discusses an application security platform that provides end-to-end security across web, mobile, and legacy applications. It utilizes multiple techniques like static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and web perimeter monitoring to identify vulnerabilities. The platform was designed for scale as a cloud-based service to securely manage global application infrastructures. It implements structured governance programs backed by security experts to help enterprises reduce risks across their software supply chains.
Security & DevOps - What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate!DevOps.com
Past history, differing world views of their roles, shadow IT development, force-fitting security tools, and past frictions can all can make gelling as a cross-functional team difficult. Yet, it’s essential to achieve fast software creation and delivery, while also ensuring the applications created are secure and risk is always appropriately managed.
Where do we start? Start with this webinar featuring Mitch Ashley, security technologist and CEO of Accelerated Strategies Group, who will explore strategies for successful DevSecOps.
You will learn:
How to successfully implement purpose-built, developer friendly secrets management tools security professionals and dev teams are thrilled to embrace.
This document compares application control software from four vendors: Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, McAfee Application Control, Sophos Endpoint Protection - Advanced, and Symantec Endpoint Protection. It evaluates their abilities to regularly control applications, audit installed software, protect against advanced persistent threats, and manage users. The testing found that Kaspersky provided the most fully-featured application control and was most effective against threats. While no product was perfect, default deny policies that whitelist approved applications were deemed the strongest approach to application control.
Dave Meurer currently serves as the Senior Technical Alliances Manager at Synopsys' Software Integrity Group’s Business Development team, where he leads technical planning, solution development, enablement, and evangelism with existing and potential strategic alliances and partners of Synopsys. Dave joined Synopsys through the acquisition of Black Duck, where he served in a similar role as the director of sales engineering for North America. Before coming to Black Duck Software, Dave worked for Skyway Software, HSN.com, and Accenture in various management and development roles. When he’s not thinking about joint partner solutions, he plays Uber driver for his five kids’ sports activities. Follow him on Twitter at @davemeurer.
Future of Software Analysis & Measurement_CASTCAST
Read this informative presentation with contributions from experts on the Future of Software Analysis and Measurement: Dan Galorath, President & CEO of Galorath Inc and Bill Curtis, SVP & Chief Scientist, CAST will have an engaging discussion moderated by David Herron, VP, Knowledge Solution Services, David Consulting Group. These industry veterans will how SAM tools coupled with estimate models can impact organizational performance through increased ROI, customer satisfaction and business value.
To view the webinar, visit http://www.castsoftware.com/news-events/event/future-of-SAM?gad=ss
Getting the Most Value from VM and Compliance Programs white paperTawnia Beckwith
- The document discusses how organizations can get the most value from their vulnerability management and compliance programs. It addresses common obstacles such as incomplete network coverage, lack of stakeholder buy-in, and providing reports tailored to different audiences.
- Key recommendations include revisiting program goals, ensuring comprehensive network scanning, generating automated reports for stakeholders, addressing organizational resistance, and properly supporting security teams. Following these recommendations can help programs more effectively measure and reduce security risks over time.
This document discusses GSS Infotech's automated approach to migrating organizations from older versions of Windows to Windows 7. It begins by outlining the challenges of large-scale Windows migrations. The approach involves 4 steps: 1) Analysis and planning to understand user environments and applications, 2) Engineering including automated compatibility testing to determine if applications will work, 3) Deployment using imaging and automation to minimize downtime, 4) Ensuring steady state like training and support after migration. Automation is key to efficiently handling large migrations with minimal human intervention.
Presentation on the risks present in the supply chain for software given at the Supply Chain Risk Management Symposium on Jan 15, 2015 in Arlington VA. Contains a brief introduction on how one might approach reducing the risks.
White Paper: 7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of your ApplicationsSonatype
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing these security gaps.
SAFECode’s latest “Software Security Guidance for Agile Practitioners” White...EMC
This document provides security-focused stories and associated tasks for Agile development teams to incorporate security considerations into their processes. It contains 36 stories organized by role (architect, developer, tester) with mappings to security best practices and common weaknesses. It also lists 17 ongoing operational security tasks and 12 advanced tasks typically requiring security expertise. The goals are to translate secure development practices into an Agile-friendly format and provide a starting point for teams to build security into their workflows and reduce security debt.
In this webinar we will explore the findings from the recent PtaaS Impact Report: 2020, which aims to unravel the benefits and challenges of deploying a SaaS-based pentesting model in a modern software development environment.
Join us as Cobalt Chief Strategy Officer Caroline Wong, Cobalt.io customer Ryan Stinson and experienced technology executive Dr. Chenxi Wang discuss how DevOps is changing the adoption of application security measures and how a PtaaS solution adapts to meet this change.
This webinar will cover:
The impact of DevOps on application security
Why SaaS-driven companies are expanding pentesting scopes and frequency
How PtaaS adapts to meet the speed of DevOps
Software FMEA and Software FTA – An Effective Tool for Embedded Software Qual...Mahindra Satyam
The document discusses software FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) as effective tools for embedded software quality assurance. Software FTA involves identifying potential failures and their causes by logically connecting software components to undesired events. Software FMEA examines failures at the functional and variable levels. The analyses help identify weaknesses, critical variables, and protections needed. The results provide inputs for testing and help reduce risks for safety-critical systems.
The State of Open Source Vulnerabilities ManagementWhiteSource
The number of open source vulnerabilities hit an all-time record in 2017 with 3,500 reported vulnerabilities - that's 60% higher than the previous year, and the trend continues in 2018.
Since it’s impossible to keep up with today’s pace of software production without open source, development and security teams are challenged to meet security objectives, without compromising on speed and quality.
It's time for organizations to step up their open source security game. Join WhiteSource's Senior Director of Product Management, Rami Elron, as he discusses:
- the current state of open source vulnerabilities management;
- organizations' struggle to handle open source vulnerabilities; and
- the key strategy for effective vulnerability management.
AppSec How-To: Achieving Security in DevOpsCheckmarx
How do you integrate security within a Continuous Deployment (CD) environment, where every 5 minutes a feature, an enhancement, or a bug fix needs to be released? Find out in this Checkmarx How-To Paper.
Penetration testing is an essential security practice that assesses vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and web applications before attackers can exploit them. It involves gathering target information, identifying entry points, attempting to break in either virtually or for real, and reporting findings. Penetration testing should be done regularly to identify issues that vulnerability assessments and security tools may miss, as hackers develop new techniques daily. It is important for organizations of any size to conduct penetration testing to protect their business continuity, save money, and comply with regulations like GDPR.
The survey found that:
- 82% of organizations experienced at least one online attack or threat in the last year, with the average company experiencing three types.
- While ransomware was less common, it had the highest severity of impact. Browser vulnerabilities were identified as the biggest challenge to endpoint security.
- The most common impacts of attacks were increased help desk workload and reduced employee productivity. Most organizations now use multiple endpoint security solutions due to the ineffectiveness of traditional antivirus against advanced malware.
The document summarizes Veracode's application security platform. It continuously learns from scans to address evolving threats. It uses a cloud-based platform that is massively scalable and allows organizations to start immediately without hiring consultants or installing servers. It also provides program managers to help implement a centralized, policy-based approach to managing application security across an enterprise.
Solving for Compliance: Mobile app security for banking and financial servicesNowSecure
Mobile apps fall in scope for a number of regulatory requirements that govern the banking and financial services industries, such as: guidelines from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), New York State cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. Luckily, a repeatable mobile app security assessment program and standardized reporting go a long way in both achieving compliance objectives and securing mobile apps and data.
Originally presented on August 22, 2017, NowSecure Security Solutions Engineer Brian Lawrence explains:
-- How and where exactly mobile apps fall in scope for various compliance regimes
-- Mobile app security issues financial institutions must identify and fix for compliance purposes
-- How assessment reports can be used to demonstrate due diligence
Taking Open Source Security to the Next LevelSBWebinars
Join us for a webinar featuring Forrester VP and Research Director Amy DeMartine to learn more about why open source security has become critical for securing modern applications, the main considerations when evaluating an open source security and license compliance solution and what she sees in store for the future.
Additionally, WhiteSource Senior Director of Product Marketing, Jeff Crum, will discuss recent analysis of the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) market, including takeaways from The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2019.
Excel can be a useful initial tool for compliance management, but has limitations. It works well for a single domain in the first year, but struggles as the compliance scope expands to multiple domains or years. Key challenges with Excel include lack of central evidence repository, version control, oversight of the control mapping process, and ensuring all teams use consistent processes. The document provides tips on when Excel is no longer sufficient and recommends a more comprehensive compliance solution for programs with 3 or more domains or that have expanded in scope beyond the initial launch.
Veracode is a well-established US-based provider of application security testing (AST) services including static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), mobile AST, and software composition analysis (SCA). Veracode offers a broad set of AST services to help organizations build and deploy applications faster while reducing business risk. The company pioneered binary code analysis and was an early innovator in mobile AST and SCA. Veracode aims to help customers reduce risk across their entire software development lifecycle through its unified cloud-based platform and services.
Five steps to achieve success with application securityIBM Security
This white paper provides a general framework your organization can use to create or build upon an application security program. It includes guidelines that can be useful at different stages of your security program’s maturity. By addressing key considerations, providing clear and actionable items, and offering real-world examples, these five steps provide an adaptable strategy to help your organization get started and maintain an effective, ongoing application-security strategy.
Selecting an App Security Testing Partner: An eGuideHCLSoftware
In the age of digital transformation, global businesses leverage web application scanning tools to shape innovative employee cultures, business processes, and customer experiences. The surge in remote work, cloud computing, and online services unveils unprecedented vulnerabilities and threats.
Learn more: https://hclsw.co/ftpwvz
Security & DevOps - What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate!DevOps.com
Past history, differing world views of their roles, shadow IT development, force-fitting security tools, and past frictions can all can make gelling as a cross-functional team difficult. Yet, it’s essential to achieve fast software creation and delivery, while also ensuring the applications created are secure and risk is always appropriately managed.
Where do we start? Start with this webinar featuring Mitch Ashley, security technologist and CEO of Accelerated Strategies Group, who will explore strategies for successful DevSecOps.
You will learn:
How to successfully implement purpose-built, developer friendly secrets management tools security professionals and dev teams are thrilled to embrace.
This document compares application control software from four vendors: Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, McAfee Application Control, Sophos Endpoint Protection - Advanced, and Symantec Endpoint Protection. It evaluates their abilities to regularly control applications, audit installed software, protect against advanced persistent threats, and manage users. The testing found that Kaspersky provided the most fully-featured application control and was most effective against threats. While no product was perfect, default deny policies that whitelist approved applications were deemed the strongest approach to application control.
Dave Meurer currently serves as the Senior Technical Alliances Manager at Synopsys' Software Integrity Group’s Business Development team, where he leads technical planning, solution development, enablement, and evangelism with existing and potential strategic alliances and partners of Synopsys. Dave joined Synopsys through the acquisition of Black Duck, where he served in a similar role as the director of sales engineering for North America. Before coming to Black Duck Software, Dave worked for Skyway Software, HSN.com, and Accenture in various management and development roles. When he’s not thinking about joint partner solutions, he plays Uber driver for his five kids’ sports activities. Follow him on Twitter at @davemeurer.
Future of Software Analysis & Measurement_CASTCAST
Read this informative presentation with contributions from experts on the Future of Software Analysis and Measurement: Dan Galorath, President & CEO of Galorath Inc and Bill Curtis, SVP & Chief Scientist, CAST will have an engaging discussion moderated by David Herron, VP, Knowledge Solution Services, David Consulting Group. These industry veterans will how SAM tools coupled with estimate models can impact organizational performance through increased ROI, customer satisfaction and business value.
To view the webinar, visit http://www.castsoftware.com/news-events/event/future-of-SAM?gad=ss
Getting the Most Value from VM and Compliance Programs white paperTawnia Beckwith
- The document discusses how organizations can get the most value from their vulnerability management and compliance programs. It addresses common obstacles such as incomplete network coverage, lack of stakeholder buy-in, and providing reports tailored to different audiences.
- Key recommendations include revisiting program goals, ensuring comprehensive network scanning, generating automated reports for stakeholders, addressing organizational resistance, and properly supporting security teams. Following these recommendations can help programs more effectively measure and reduce security risks over time.
This document discusses GSS Infotech's automated approach to migrating organizations from older versions of Windows to Windows 7. It begins by outlining the challenges of large-scale Windows migrations. The approach involves 4 steps: 1) Analysis and planning to understand user environments and applications, 2) Engineering including automated compatibility testing to determine if applications will work, 3) Deployment using imaging and automation to minimize downtime, 4) Ensuring steady state like training and support after migration. Automation is key to efficiently handling large migrations with minimal human intervention.
Presentation on the risks present in the supply chain for software given at the Supply Chain Risk Management Symposium on Jan 15, 2015 in Arlington VA. Contains a brief introduction on how one might approach reducing the risks.
White Paper: 7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of your ApplicationsSonatype
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing these security gaps.
SAFECode’s latest “Software Security Guidance for Agile Practitioners” White...EMC
This document provides security-focused stories and associated tasks for Agile development teams to incorporate security considerations into their processes. It contains 36 stories organized by role (architect, developer, tester) with mappings to security best practices and common weaknesses. It also lists 17 ongoing operational security tasks and 12 advanced tasks typically requiring security expertise. The goals are to translate secure development practices into an Agile-friendly format and provide a starting point for teams to build security into their workflows and reduce security debt.
In this webinar we will explore the findings from the recent PtaaS Impact Report: 2020, which aims to unravel the benefits and challenges of deploying a SaaS-based pentesting model in a modern software development environment.
Join us as Cobalt Chief Strategy Officer Caroline Wong, Cobalt.io customer Ryan Stinson and experienced technology executive Dr. Chenxi Wang discuss how DevOps is changing the adoption of application security measures and how a PtaaS solution adapts to meet this change.
This webinar will cover:
The impact of DevOps on application security
Why SaaS-driven companies are expanding pentesting scopes and frequency
How PtaaS adapts to meet the speed of DevOps
Software FMEA and Software FTA – An Effective Tool for Embedded Software Qual...Mahindra Satyam
The document discusses software FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) as effective tools for embedded software quality assurance. Software FTA involves identifying potential failures and their causes by logically connecting software components to undesired events. Software FMEA examines failures at the functional and variable levels. The analyses help identify weaknesses, critical variables, and protections needed. The results provide inputs for testing and help reduce risks for safety-critical systems.
The State of Open Source Vulnerabilities ManagementWhiteSource
The number of open source vulnerabilities hit an all-time record in 2017 with 3,500 reported vulnerabilities - that's 60% higher than the previous year, and the trend continues in 2018.
Since it’s impossible to keep up with today’s pace of software production without open source, development and security teams are challenged to meet security objectives, without compromising on speed and quality.
It's time for organizations to step up their open source security game. Join WhiteSource's Senior Director of Product Management, Rami Elron, as he discusses:
- the current state of open source vulnerabilities management;
- organizations' struggle to handle open source vulnerabilities; and
- the key strategy for effective vulnerability management.
AppSec How-To: Achieving Security in DevOpsCheckmarx
How do you integrate security within a Continuous Deployment (CD) environment, where every 5 minutes a feature, an enhancement, or a bug fix needs to be released? Find out in this Checkmarx How-To Paper.
Penetration testing is an essential security practice that assesses vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and web applications before attackers can exploit them. It involves gathering target information, identifying entry points, attempting to break in either virtually or for real, and reporting findings. Penetration testing should be done regularly to identify issues that vulnerability assessments and security tools may miss, as hackers develop new techniques daily. It is important for organizations of any size to conduct penetration testing to protect their business continuity, save money, and comply with regulations like GDPR.
The survey found that:
- 82% of organizations experienced at least one online attack or threat in the last year, with the average company experiencing three types.
- While ransomware was less common, it had the highest severity of impact. Browser vulnerabilities were identified as the biggest challenge to endpoint security.
- The most common impacts of attacks were increased help desk workload and reduced employee productivity. Most organizations now use multiple endpoint security solutions due to the ineffectiveness of traditional antivirus against advanced malware.
The document summarizes Veracode's application security platform. It continuously learns from scans to address evolving threats. It uses a cloud-based platform that is massively scalable and allows organizations to start immediately without hiring consultants or installing servers. It also provides program managers to help implement a centralized, policy-based approach to managing application security across an enterprise.
Solving for Compliance: Mobile app security for banking and financial servicesNowSecure
Mobile apps fall in scope for a number of regulatory requirements that govern the banking and financial services industries, such as: guidelines from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), New York State cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. Luckily, a repeatable mobile app security assessment program and standardized reporting go a long way in both achieving compliance objectives and securing mobile apps and data.
Originally presented on August 22, 2017, NowSecure Security Solutions Engineer Brian Lawrence explains:
-- How and where exactly mobile apps fall in scope for various compliance regimes
-- Mobile app security issues financial institutions must identify and fix for compliance purposes
-- How assessment reports can be used to demonstrate due diligence
Taking Open Source Security to the Next LevelSBWebinars
Join us for a webinar featuring Forrester VP and Research Director Amy DeMartine to learn more about why open source security has become critical for securing modern applications, the main considerations when evaluating an open source security and license compliance solution and what she sees in store for the future.
Additionally, WhiteSource Senior Director of Product Marketing, Jeff Crum, will discuss recent analysis of the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) market, including takeaways from The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2019.
Excel can be a useful initial tool for compliance management, but has limitations. It works well for a single domain in the first year, but struggles as the compliance scope expands to multiple domains or years. Key challenges with Excel include lack of central evidence repository, version control, oversight of the control mapping process, and ensuring all teams use consistent processes. The document provides tips on when Excel is no longer sufficient and recommends a more comprehensive compliance solution for programs with 3 or more domains or that have expanded in scope beyond the initial launch.
Veracode is a well-established US-based provider of application security testing (AST) services including static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), mobile AST, and software composition analysis (SCA). Veracode offers a broad set of AST services to help organizations build and deploy applications faster while reducing business risk. The company pioneered binary code analysis and was an early innovator in mobile AST and SCA. Veracode aims to help customers reduce risk across their entire software development lifecycle through its unified cloud-based platform and services.
Five steps to achieve success with application securityIBM Security
This white paper provides a general framework your organization can use to create or build upon an application security program. It includes guidelines that can be useful at different stages of your security program’s maturity. By addressing key considerations, providing clear and actionable items, and offering real-world examples, these five steps provide an adaptable strategy to help your organization get started and maintain an effective, ongoing application-security strategy.
Selecting an App Security Testing Partner: An eGuideHCLSoftware
In the age of digital transformation, global businesses leverage web application scanning tools to shape innovative employee cultures, business processes, and customer experiences. The surge in remote work, cloud computing, and online services unveils unprecedented vulnerabilities and threats.
Learn more: https://hclsw.co/ftpwvz
Procuring an Application Security Testing PartnerHCLSoftware
Procuring an Application Security Testing Partner is crucial for safeguarding digital assets. An Application Security Testing Partner specializes in conducting comprehensive assessments using keywords like vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code review, and threat modeling. Their expertise ensures your applications are fortified against cyber threats, providing peace of mind in an increasingly interconnected digital landscape.
Learn More: https://hclsw.co/ftpwvz
In this blog, you will gain a full understanding of the benefits of custom software, what to look for when hiring a custom software development company, the risks and costs, what to expect in the entire software development lifecycle, and how to ensure the success.
Read full article here: https://www.vrinsofts.com/an-ultimate-guide-to-custom-software-development/
This document discusses how continuous delivery of software is putting pressure on security teams to keep up with frequent releases. It describes how leading companies are using Fortify's application security solutions to scan more applications faster, better prioritize issues, and integrate security testing throughout development. By shifting security left to earlier phases, these companies find and fix vulnerabilities sooner, reducing remediation time and allowing for faster software delivery cycles to support business needs. The document surveys software security operations at several large financial, energy, and technology companies to evaluate how Fortify helps with scan setup, performance, triaging, remediation, and scalability.
Building a business case for expanding your AppSec ProgramNicolas Gohmert
This guide will help you develop a strong business case that can drive real-world results.
We’ll explain how to frame budget issues, identify key metrics, and use customer sentiment to
your advantage, all so you can get the funding you need to create a more mature AppSec program.
This document discusses shift left security, which is an approach to applying security practices earlier in the software development lifecycle rather than after deployment. The key aspects of shift left security are designing security into applications from the planning phase, implementing secure coding practices, and testing for security vulnerabilities earlier. Adopting shift left security reduces costs compared to fixing issues later and better protects applications, data, and organizations from security threats.
Week 7 - Choices in Systems Acquisition and Risks, Security,.docxhelzerpatrina
Week 7 - Choices in Systems Acquisition and Risks, Security, and Disaster Recovery
Sousa, K., & Oz, E. (2015). Management Information Systems, 7th Edition. Cengage Learning.
ISBN-13: 978-1285186139
Read:
· Chapter 13
· Chapter 14
Week 7 Lecture 1 - Choices in Systems Acquisition and Risks, Security
Management of Information Systems
Choices in Systems Acquisition and Risks, Security
Systems Acquisition
Options to consider when acquiring a new system are, development in-house, outsourcing, licensing, software as a service (SaaS), and having users develop the system. There are trade-offs to consider for each option. In-house development has several advantages to consider such as a good fit to organizational need and culture, dedicated maintenance, since the developers are accessible within the company, seamless interface, when the system is custom-made for an organization special requirements can be implemented to ensure that it has proper interfaces with other systems, and specialized security, special security measures can be integrated into an application. Additionally, there is a potential for strategic advantage. Some of the disadvantages of in-house development are, high cost, a long wait for development personnel, who might be busy with other projects and the application may be excessively organization specific to integrate with other systems.
Outsourcing
Advantages of outsourcing are improved financial planning sense outsourcing enables a client to know the exact costs of IT functions over the period of a contract. Another advantage is reduced license and maintenance fee discounts. Outsourcing gives businesses an opportunity to increase their attention to the core business by letting experts manage IT. Outsourcing also provides shorter implementation time as IT vendors can in most cases complete a new application in less time than in-house development. A reduction in personnel as another advantage as IS salaries and benefits are expensive. Outsourcing increases access to highly qualified knowledge. Clients can tap into the IT vendor’s knowledge and experience gained by working with many clients in different environments.
Some of the risks of outsourcing IT services are a loss of control, a loss of experienced employees, outsourcing involves transferring organizations employees to the highest vendor, the risk of losing competitive advantage outsourcing the development of strategic systems is the same as disclosing trade secrets. Another disadvantage is high price despite careful pre-contractual calculations companies find that outsourcing cost them significantly more than if they had spent their resources on in-house development.
Licensing
Benefits of licensing software are immediate system availability, low price (the license fee), available support, and high quality. Immediate availability shortens the time from when a decision is made to acquire the new system and when the new system begins to be productive. The product is high qual ...
DevOps and Devsecops What are the Differences.pdfTechugo
DevSecOps is the methodology that integrates security techniques into the DevOps process. It fosters and encourages collaboration with release engineers and security groups based on a ‘Security As Code’ concept. DevSecOps has gained recognition and importance due to the increasing security risks associated with software applications.
DevSecOps is an idea that is relatively new and is based on the principles of DevOps. While DevOps integrates operations and development in a continuous, harmonized process, DevSecOps incorporates a security component in the SDLC. Visit the post to know more.
DevOps and Devsecops- What are the Differences.Techugo
Pharmaceutical manufacturing software is a tool that streamlines the manufacturing process of pharmaceutical products. The difference between different pharmaceutical manufacturing software lies in their features and capabilities. Some software may focus on specific areas of manufacturing, such as quality control, while others may provide end-to-end solutions for the entire manufacturing process. Factors such as scalability, customization, and regulatory compliance are also important considerations when choosing pharmaceutical manufacturing software. Ultimately, the right software should meet the unique needs of a pharmaceutical manufacturing company and improve their operational efficiency.
Getting Executive Support for a Software Security ProgramCigital
Software security is one of many competing priorities within your organization. How do you get the attention and budget you need? This presentation walks you through ways to build executive support
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Pros and Cons: Thoroughly compares the pros and cons of using the tracking devices in the shipping business as a function of competitive advantage. ; Several relevant examples and original observations are integrated throughout this section, and terminology is used correctly.Criterion 2
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Knowledge and Change: Examines deeply and broadly how knowledge of each truck’s location and delivery times will change the shipping business. Logical conclusions are drawn from the examination.Criterion 3
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This chapter covers the important security considerations that should be part of the development cycle of web applications, client applications, and remote administration, illustrating potential security issues and how to solve them.
After an application is written, it is deployed into an environment of some sort, where it remains for an extended period of time with only its original features to defend it from whatever threats, mistakes, or misuse it encounters. A malicious agent in the environment, on the other hand, has that same extended period of time to observe the application and tailor its attack techniques until something works. At this point, any number of undesirable things could happen. For example, there could be a breach, there could be a vulnerability disclosure, malware exploiting the vulnerability could be released, or the exploit technique could be sold to the highest bidder.
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Software development is the process of creating and maintaining software applications and components. It involves conceiving ideas, specifying requirements, designing, programming, testing, and fixing bugs. The software can be developed for a variety of purposes like custom software for clients, commercial software, or personal use. Different methodologies take structured or incremental approaches to the stages of software development which typically include analyzing problems, gathering requirements, designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining the software. The best approach depends on how well understood the problem is and whether the solution can be planned out in advance or needs to evolve incrementally.
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Application security
affects every employee
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Development Team
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Legal Team
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Procurement Team
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Marketing and
Communications Team
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Executive Team
WHAT’S INSIDE
CRACKING
THE CODE ON
APPLICATION
SECURITY BUY-IN
How to Work With Teams in Your
Organization to Make AppSec a Success
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INTRODUCTION
Securing the applications that run your business is now
a critical task. Because applications help fuel innovation
and boost productivity, organizations are using them
in increasing numbers. However, the same applications
that allow your business to run faster and smoother
also introduce risk in the form of vulnerabilities. And
this is why companies of all sizes need to develop
application security (AppSec) programs.
Although every company building, buying or download-
ing applications should create an application security
program, many are unsure where to start. Partnering
with a trusted expert in AppSec can help reduce this
complexity. Yet, even with a trusted partner, barriers
will exist if you haven’t worked with the correct teams
to help build your strategy or properly socialize the
strategy prior to its rollout.
• Who are these teams?
• Why is their input so crucial to the success of
the program?
• And, how do you work with each team to ensure
you have the proper input and buy-in so that your
program isn’t derailed by interdepartmental dissent?
This guide provides answers to these questions as well
as practical advice for working across teams to ensure
the success of your application security program.
Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
3. 3 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
Even the most well thought-out plan, with strong policies, guides and
metrics, will fail if those policies are not followed. The simplest way to
ensure your policies are ignored and your efforts at reducing risk are
in vain is to create your program in a silo.
Application security is unlike other forms of security in that it directly
impacts the everyday routines of your co-workers. When you imple-
ment new anti-virus software, most employees won’t notice, and when
you create a new firewall rule, it generally doesn’t impact anyone except
the network manager creating the rule. But application security is
different. First, it requires the participation of the development team,
and has the potential to disrupt their software development lifecycle
— which in turn negatively impacts their ability to meet production
schedules. And it isn’t just development teams that are impacted.
The consumerization of IT means employees in all departments are
purchasing and downloading software. If your program includes a
security-vetting process for the purchase of third-party software
(as it should), then you are slowing these employees down as well.
Or worse, your policy may prohibit them from purchasing software
that helps them do their job.
WHO IS MOST IMPACTED
BY APPLICATION SECURITY?
Aside from the security team, which team carries the bulk of the
burden when creating and implementing an application security
program? What other teams are impacted? While the short answer is
“everybody,” you don’t need to inform or consult with all teams early
in the process. While we recommend informing your entire company
once the plan is complete and in place, there are some departments
you should consult during the development phase. These are develop-
ment/DevOps, legal, procurement, marketing and communications and
the executive teams. By including these departments in the planning
phase, your strategy has a better chance of success, and you should
have ready-made champions to help promote your strategy when it
does go live.
Application security
affects all employees,
and, as a result, you
need input and buy-in
from different teams
during the planning
and rollout phases
of your program.
INFORMATION
SHEET
Why Application
Security Programs Fail
Why you
need AppSec
APPLICATION SECURITY
AFFECTS EVERY EMPLOYEE
4. 4 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
Stake in the Game
Your application security program affects the development team more so
than any other team in the organization. An advanced application security
program requires security to be built into the software development
lifecycle, and, as such, a poorly implemented application security program
has the potential to disrupt the development team’s day-to-day work.
Development and DevOps teams’ biggest fear when they hear their
organization will enact an application security assessment program is
that their development efforts will be slowed down. This team can be
the biggest barrier to the success of the program, because if they do not
follow the protocol set forth by the program plan, the security team will
be unable to demonstrate the value of the plan.
How to Work With the Development Team
Consult the development and DevOps teams early during the plan’s
conception and throughout its evolution. This way, the security team can
ensure the assessment protocols do not disrupt the development lifecycle,
and instead, enhance the development processes by making it easier for
developers to find and remediate vulnerabilities. Learn more about how
to integrate application security into an Agile development environment.
When meeting with the development or development operations teams, be
prepared with a set of best-practice guidelines you’d like to implement.
However, do not present the guidelines as a set plan or strategy. Instead,
describe your outline as a starting point for discussions and ask for ideas
on how this process can best fit into the existing development lifecycle.
The less you have to change the current processes, and the more you try
to adapt your plan to fit their needs, the more likely its success.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM
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Putting Security
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Development
WEBINAR: Build Your Software Securely
By now, you are well aware of the implications of building and shipping
insecure software. But it’s challenging to keep pace with the rapidly
changing development environment while ensuring security and
compliance requirements are not compromised.
5. 5 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
Questions to Ask
The development team can be a major ally in the creation of the program
if you ask them the following questions:
Can you describe our software development lifecycle?
When do you currently assess the applications you are
building for security?
How often are they tested?
Where do you think security assessments belong in the lifecycle?
How can we best fit into your existing process?
What are your biggest concerns about starting a program?
What would be the best way to test our strategy once we
agree on the process?
While the responses to these questions may result in modifications of
your plan, having this input is a crucial step in getting buy-in. By soliciting
feedback and suggestions this early in the process, the development team
will feel less like the application security program is an annoying edict they
must follow, and more like it is a plan they had a hand in shaping. If you
can accomplish this, the strategy is far more likely to succeed because
the development team is more likely to follow proper procedures and
support the plan.
Be prepared to answer the following questions:
How will the assessment process fit into the current
development lifecycle (e.g., Agile, waterfall)?
How will this impact the development teams’ productivity?
What training programs will be put in place to help the
development team?
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Benefits of Training
Consider security training to help the development team understand the
different types of vulnerabilities and how to address them. eLearning can
have a big impact on remediation. In fact, lack of developer knowledge
of security is often cited as a barrier to producing more secure code. Our
data shows that development organizations that leverage eLearning see
a 30 percent improvement in fix rate compared to those that do not. It is
important to note that this may be correlative rather than causative, since
eLearning use is associated with other success strategies such as use
of centralized policies, remediation coaching and other aspects of a
systematic program. Read more in the State of Software Security,
Volume 6: Focus on Application Development.
LEGAL TEAM
Stake in the Game
Working with your legal team is especially important if you are including
third-party applications in your security program. The legal team will need
to be part of any contract negotiation to ensure your requests of vendors
are legal, and your practices for testing third-party applications do not
breach your customer contract. In addition, the legal team will help you
craft language around your own security posture in situations where you
are the software vendor.
How to Work With the Legal Team
Perhaps better than any other constituent in your organization, the legal
team understands the language of risk. As such, your conversations with
this team should center on risk rather than technology and tactics used to
assess the security of software.
“Development organizations that leverage eLearning
see a 30 percent improvement in fix rate compared
to those that do not.”
ACCORDING TO VERACODE’S STATE OF SOFTWARE
SECURITY, VOLUME 6: FOCUS ON APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
TWEET
THIS STAT
STATS TO GAIN BUY-IN
Organizations using
remediation coaching
services (“readout calls”)
improve code security by
a factor of 2.5x compared
to those that choose to
do it on their own.
STATE OF SOFTWARE
SECURITY, VOLUME 6
61%
of development teams
are not measured for
compliance with secure
architecture standards.
THE STATE OF APPLICATION
SECURITY, PONEMON INSTITUTE,
AUGUST 2013
7. 7 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
When working with the legal team to create vendor security contracts,
start by:
Making it clear what you are trying to accomplish in creating a vendor
application security testing program.
Providing examples of best practices and language used by other compa-
nies. You can get this information from your application security partner.
Providing examples of what you would like your policy to look like, and
how it would be enforced, and then ask for feedback on whether your
standards are permitted by law.
For contracts or documents attesting to the security of the software
your company is building, be prepared with:
The standards you plan to adhere to (we recommend OWASP Top 10)
A set of industry standards and benchmarks to demonstrate where your
plan will fall in terms of industry standards
Sample contract language you wish to use in your customer contracts
SLA standards your plan will adhere to for patching if vulnerabilities
are found
Questions to Ask
While you should come to any discussion with your legal team prepared
with goals, examples of best practices and an outline of what you’d like
your plan to look like, you should also come prepared with questions. This
way, you can be sure your legal team has given you everything you need to
ensure your contract language is correct.
Does using language that attests to the security of our
products in customer contracts put us at risk in the event
our software is deemed to be the root of a breach?
How can we mitigate that risk?
Given the language in our customer contracts, will our plan
for assessing the security of our vendors’ applications put us
in breach of contract? How can we work with our vendors in
the future to make sure that isn’t the case?
Large organizations have a 75% chance of being
breached via an application-layer attack.
VERIZON DATA BREACH INVESTIGATIONS REPORT (DBIR), DECEMBER 2012
PRESS RELEASE
REPORT
State of Software
Security Report:
Focus on Industry
Verticals
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STATS TO GAIN
BUY-IN
84%
of organizations that
suffered a data breach
were out of compliance
with application-layer
security controls
(PCI-DSS Requirement
6) — compared to an
average of only 47%
of all organizations
assessed by Verizon
QSAs in 2013. This
suggests a strong
correlation between
the likelihood of suffer-
ing a data breach and
non-compliance with
application security.
VERIZON 2014 PCI
COMPLIANCE REPORT
8. 8 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
PROCUREMENT
TEAM
Stake in the Game
The procurement team works with every department in your company,
and they either report up to finance or legal. As with the legal team,
application security programs impact this team the most when you
implement a vendor application security policy, since they are the group
that reviews vendor contracts. As a result, if you plan to include a vendor
application security testing initiative as part of your overall application
security program, then you will need to work with this team to modify
contract templates and language.
How to Work With the Procurement Team
The procurement team most likely reviews vendor contracts for various
groups in the organization before they are signed. When reviewing
contracts, they are looking for “red flags” that may pose a problem for
your company in the future. These red flags include things like payment
terms, product SLAs and so on. Work with this team by helping them
identify the security posture language they should be looking for in
any vendor contract. In addition, help the procurement team better
understand their role in the application security process before you
finalize your vendor application security testing program by:
Helping them understand why you are creating a vendor application
security program.
Describing the type of language they should be looking for in a
contract by providing examples.
Providing examples of language they may want to add to vendor
contracts as part of the negotiation process.
Questions to Ask
What kinds of issues or language are you currently reviewing
contracts for?
Are you able to reject contracts based on missing criteria?
How can we include security posture as part of our purchasing
requirements?
STATS TO GAIN BUY-IN
60%
of organizations will
suffer a security breach
in 2015.
A FORRESTER PREDICTION
WHITEPAPER
Appropriate Software
Security Control Types
3
1
2
A large and growing
footprint of third-party
software in the enter-
prise, regulatory bodies
such as the OCC and
industry organizations
such as FS-ISAC, OWASP,
NIST and the PCI Security
Standards Council are
now placing increased
focus on controls to miti-
gate the risks introduced
by third-party software.
9. 9 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
MARKETING AND
COMMUNICATIONS
Stake in the Game
Marketing departments are spinning up websites and landing pages, pur-
chasing and creating mobile apps, hiring third-party contractors to help with
automation and purchasing applications from third-party vendors. In fact,
marketing has now surpassed the IT department in technology spend.
While these practices allow marketing departments to move quickly and
reach their branding and demand-generation goals, they also introduce secu-
rity risk. In an effort to move quickly, marketing departments often inadver-
tently operate around security procedures, and with applications being the
number-one attack vector for cybercriminals, this can have dire consequenc-
es. Many of the breaches we hear about in the news are a result of a market-
ing-led program.
How to Work With the Marketing and
Communications Team
The marketing and communications team does not set out to undermine
your application security; they simply aren’t aware of the dangers their
actions create. When working with the marketing team, the most important
thing you can do is to inform them of the risk and the policies you want to
put into place. If you give them a set of guidelines to follow, they most likely
will. As you create these guidelines, ask for feedback on how your teams can
work together better.
Some of the items you’ll want to discuss include:
The importance of assessing web applications for security
prior to launch
The process the marketing department uses for evaluating
vendors and for purchasing software
The policy you would like to enact for software purchases
However, in addition to needing marketing and communications’ cooperation,
they can also be a great ally. One area where security in general has faltered
is in communicating the AppSec plan and its successes. By working with the
marketing team to help you communicate your program plans and then
successes, you will be better positioned for success.
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1
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Ask the marketing
team to help you write
company communica-
tions regarding new
policies and guidelines
and to help you draft
presentations on your
program’s progress.
10. 10 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
Questions to Ask
How will these policies impact your productivity?
How do you typically evaluate vendors and build web
applications?
Are you able to help us communicate our plan to the rest
of the organization?
Be prepared to answer:
Why are we assessing the security of the software we
are buying?
From whom should I get approval for software purchases?
What is the process for purchasing software?
What about software we already purchased?
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Stake in the Game
The executive team’s main concern around any new initiative is how it will
impact the bottom line. It is the executive team’s responsibility to ensure
the company is operating efficiently as well as securely.
If you have support for your application security program from the
executive team, other departments in the organization will be compelled
to participate and support the program as well.
How to Work With the Executive Team
When working with the C-suite around application security, the key is
to focus on the benefits to the organization, rather than the technology
or technical details of the program. For the C-suite, the main concern
is the cost-benefit ratio. As such, provide information around how the
assessment cycle will speed up development and reduce the cost of
remediating vulnerabilities post-production. The conversation should also
include information about the risk that vulnerabilities in the application
layer pose to the organization, and how reducing this risk will ultimately
save the company money and time. Always consider the information
that a member of the C-suite would bring to the board.
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STATS TO GAIN
BUY-IN
56%
of unsuccessful projects
fail to meet their goals
due to ineffective
communication.
ACCORDING TO PROJECT
MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE’S
ESSENTIAL ROLE OF
COMMUNICATIONS REPORT
17.65%
increase in distributed
denial of service (DDoS)
attacks targeting the
application layer in
Q2 2015.
ACCORDING TO AKAMAI’S Q2
2015 “STATE OF THE INTERNET
SECURITY REPORT” COMPARED
TO Q1 2015
DID YOU KNOW?
In 2014 alone, there
were eight major
breaches through
the application layer,
resulting in more than
450 million personal or
financial records stolen.
11. 11 Cracking the Code on Application Security Buy-In
Ultimately, the more support the application security program has from
the C-suite, the more likely the security team will be able to scale the
program to cover the entire application layer over time. Learn more about
the board’s perspective on application security.
Be prepared to answer the following questions:
What does our risk posture look like now?
Why should we invest in application security as opposed
to other forms of cybersecurity?
What metrics will you use to demonstrate progress?3
1
2
STATS TO GAIN BUY-IN
35%
of breaches are web
application attacks,
one of the most frequent
patterns confirmed
in breaches.
VERIZON DATA BREACH
INVESTIGATION REPORT
CONCLUSION
Getting buy-in for your application security program is a key step
many enterprises skip. However, creating a plan, even an advanced
one, without working with key stakeholders is a recipe for a failed
program. Application security touches more teams than the typical
security program, and, as a result, if the teams impacted by your
program feel they are being dictated to and didn’t have their voices
heard during the planning process, they are unlikely to comply with
the regulations or guidelines you put in place. Similarly, if you do not
communicate the program properly to the entire organization, you
could find that most of your organization is inadvertently introducing
the very risk you are attempting to avoid.
By working with the teams outlined above, you are taking a major step
in ensuring the program that you so carefully crafted doesn’t end up
as a cut expense the following year. Instead, the positive results you
achieve by working across your enterprise may result in an increased
investment in application security, allowing your program to grow.
Are you getting
resistance from the
key departments in
your organization
about implementing
an application
security program?
Team members may think it’s
too costly or will be difficult to
manage, but that’s just not the
case. Find out what fallacies
key departments may believe
about application security — so
you can help them understand
the truth — in our handy guide,
Application Security Fallacies
and Realities.
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