Summary
Developers are key to Application Security
AppSec is challenging; security engineers are held accountable for the security of the code that developers are writing. At the same time, developers don’t have the skills or resources to write secure code – most of them have never sat an application security exam in university!
To claw their way out, organizations should look at integrating developer-friendly Application Security Testing (AST) tools –earlier in the software development lifecycle.
Here’s what this report covered
- Developers aren’t taught application security in top computer science programs in the US.\A new generation of application security testing tools is helping developers learn on the job.Secure coding practices can be promoted with guardrails, just-in-time training, and “security champions” programs.
- A new generation of application security testing tools is helping developers learn on the job.
- Secure coding practices can be promoted with guardrails, just-in-time training, and “security champions” programs.