In today’s age of cloud computing, where everything is stored and shared on a common server, incidents of data breach and data exploitation are quite common. Hence, there is the need to address the issue of security profoundly during the software development life cycle. Security vulnerabilities need to come down at any cost. However, in spite of security controls with the automated security tools and penetration testing there is not much reduction in security vulnerabilities.
In most organizations, the biggest challenge is to avoid repeated mistakes among the developer community. Classroom trainings alone cannot address this problem adequately. Hence, what is required is a holistic application security framework that helps clients to develop effective security for their application portfolio.
Wikipedia defines application security as “the measures taken throughout the application's life-cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system (vulnerabilities) through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgrade, or maintenance of the application.”
Simply put, application security is the use of software, hardware and procedural methods to reduce security vulnerabilities and thereby protect applications from hackers. As part of it, organizations need to identify and protect application data by building a security framework, security design patterns and development of respective secure controls within the application. This can be done by carrying out proper requirement gathering, as it would translate into effective design strategies and development of secure software for the organization.
Enterprises can partner with Information Risk Management services expert who can help with deploying a comprehensive secure application development framework across their application weaved in with security frameworks protecting their application and data from the hands of malicious hackers and end users. The following are some of the services that they offer.
Strategy and Design
During this phase, requirements are assessed and effective security requirement, strategy and policy are developed. The critical data that will be handled by the application is analyzed to know who will own it, who and how it’s created, how it’s used, to whom it is shared etc. Based on an assessment of risks, the application security framework is designed. The design includes the best security design patterns to simplify the solution and improve performance, usability and robustness.
Control Implementation
During this phase, the appropriate security controls and technologies such as advanced authentication, encryption, authorization, code access security, device authenticity, FIPS 140 etc are developed and deployed. The project management and technical implementation skills are provided to effectively implement as per the design criteria without violating any compliance requirement that the software should adhere to.
Sustenance and Optimization
The technology implementation is fine-tuned and optimized to ensure reduction in security threats with ongoing support and secure remediation to fix any unknown or new emerging threats.
Thus with application security, enterprises can ensure security, performance and robustness, and prevent significant impact to business and reputation that is possible because of data loss.
Read more on - data protection, identity access management
In most organizations, the biggest challenge is to avoid repeated mistakes among the developer community. Classroom trainings alone cannot address this problem adequately. Hence, what is required is a holistic application security framework that helps clients to develop effective security for their application portfolio.
Wikipedia defines application security as “the measures taken throughout the application's life-cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system (vulnerabilities) through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgrade, or maintenance of the application.”
Simply put, application security is the use of software, hardware and procedural methods to reduce security vulnerabilities and thereby protect applications from hackers. As part of it, organizations need to identify and protect application data by building a security framework, security design patterns and development of respective secure controls within the application. This can be done by carrying out proper requirement gathering, as it would translate into effective design strategies and development of secure software for the organization.
Enterprises can partner with Information Risk Management services expert who can help with deploying a comprehensive secure application development framework across their application weaved in with security frameworks protecting their application and data from the hands of malicious hackers and end users. The following are some of the services that they offer.
Strategy and Design
During this phase, requirements are assessed and effective security requirement, strategy and policy are developed. The critical data that will be handled by the application is analyzed to know who will own it, who and how it’s created, how it’s used, to whom it is shared etc. Based on an assessment of risks, the application security framework is designed. The design includes the best security design patterns to simplify the solution and improve performance, usability and robustness.
Control Implementation
During this phase, the appropriate security controls and technologies such as advanced authentication, encryption, authorization, code access security, device authenticity, FIPS 140 etc are developed and deployed. The project management and technical implementation skills are provided to effectively implement as per the design criteria without violating any compliance requirement that the software should adhere to.
Sustenance and Optimization
The technology implementation is fine-tuned and optimized to ensure reduction in security threats with ongoing support and secure remediation to fix any unknown or new emerging threats.
Thus with application security, enterprises can ensure security, performance and robustness, and prevent significant impact to business and reputation that is possible because of data loss.
Read more on - data protection, identity access management
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