With respect to the consequences of not implementing security in sdlc phases

By: It’s been shown that if you follow a proven collection of practices for developing, designing, testing, implementing, and maintaining your software, you will produce a much higher quality product. Over the past few years, we have seen an increasing number of cases of attacks on the application layer. The Open Web Application Security Project, OWASP, estimates that around one-third of web applications contain security vulnerabilities. Security should always be considered from the beginning of the project until its conclusion. Thus, bringing security into the mainstream of the software development life cycle (SDLC) is important. Implementing a secured SDLC helps you to produce an application that is more likely to meet the needs of your users. You will be balancing the security of the application with performance and stability from the start of the project, until the completion of the project when you deliver the software. What is SDLC, and related security in the process? The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is a formal process for solving problems based on a structured sequence of procedures. It is a formal project management structure that describes the lifecycle of system or software development. SDLC consists of a detailed plan that defines the process that development teams use to create software. In other words, it provides a well-structured flow of phases to help companies efficiently produce software. With the software development life cycle, teams achieve ...

The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) describes the systematic approach to developing software. In this article, we’ll look at: • • • • • What is the software development lifecycle? The SDLC helps to ensure high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and at an optimized cost. How you determine the quality of your software might vary, but general measurements include: • The robustness of the software functionality • Overall performance • Security • Ultimately, the user experience Regardless of which software development you subscribe to—Agile, Waterfall, or other variations—this lifecycle can apply. Who uses the SDLC? Not so long ago, Watt S. Humphrey, known as the father of quality in software, “Every business is a software business.” More recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Of course, we can point to many specific technology companies who develop software. If there’s an app, someone developed it. But business organizations that aren’t “in software” rely on on software and technology to do business (which is to say, all of them). These organizations will need to adapt at least some off-the-shelf solutions, likely to tweak software to align and optimize with their unique business operations. That’s why people beyond So, who uses the SDLC? In short, everyone. Stages of the SDLC The SDLC follows a series of phases involved in software development. Depending on the SDLC framework, these phases may be adopted sequentially or in parallel. (More on this...

Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Is your development process producing secure software? Ensuring that their software is secure is one of the main challenges developers face daily. It is not enough to test the software only at the required stages, which can result in overlooking minor vulnerabilities. The attackers are always ready to exploit even the slightest flaw. One of the key strategies you can use to secure your software is a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (Secure SDLC or SDL). Read on to learn about the SDL, why it is important, and how you can implement it. What Is Secure SDLC and Why Is Important for You? Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) is the process of including security artifacts in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). SDLC, in turn, consists of a detailed plan that defines the process organizations use to build an application from inception until decommission. Development teams use different models such as Waterfall, Iterative or Agile. However, all models usually follow these phases: • Planning and requirements • Architecture and design • Test planning • Coding • Testing the code and results • Release and maintenance Developers usually performed security-related tasks only at the testing stage, resulting in discovering issues too late or not at all. With time, teams started to integrate security activities to catch vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. With this in mind, the concept of secure SDLC started. Secure ...

Transcript - Where does security fit into SDLC phases? Let's talk about understanding and applying security in the Let's begin with development life cycle methodologies. The SDLC, the software development life cycle, helps us to define the SDLC phases. There may be three phases. There may be seven phases. It may depend on the nature of the methodology you're using, and certainly the SDLC phases that are important to you in your business in regards to how you and your team develop may vary slightly from the ones that I may think are important. But if we use standardized methodologies, we're then going to use standardized phasing. So the SDLC gives us that structure and that ability to understand that structure, and you select the most appropriate model based on the requirements of the project you're engaging in when you think about how to then use and deploy the SDLC within the environment. The typical SDLC phases you see on the screen in front of you, project initiation and planning, functional requirements definition, system design specifications, development and implementation, followed by documentation, followed by testing, followed by, finally, the transition to production. All of these phases are sequential. They are linear. We move from one to the next in a proper and prescribed order. The handoff from one to the next involves passing a gate or a phase for transition and usually some sort of deliverable that will clearly demarcate the success of one phase and the tra...

Learn about the phases of a software development life cycle, plus how to build security in or take an existing SDLC to the next level: the secure SDLC. The digital transformation that has swept across all industry sectors means that every business is now a software business. Whether you’re selling software directly to your customers or developing it to run your operations, your organization needs to protect your bottom line by building trust in your software without sacrificing the speed and agility that will keep you competitive in your market. However, many organizations still lag behind when it comes to building security into their software development life cycle (SDLC). Too many development teams still think of security as a bottleneck—a problem that forces them to rework code they thought was finished, and that prevents them from getting cool new features to market. But insecure software puts your business at increasing risk. Cool new features aren’t going to protect you or your customers if your product is open to exploitation by hackers. Your team needs to integrate security by developing secure software processes that enable, rather than inhibit, the delivery of high-quality, highly secure products to your market. Secure your SDLC to secure your business Ongoing reports of data breaches and supply chain attacks demonstrate that compromised software can have a devastating impact on your business. When software risk equates to business risk, it needs to be prioritize...