Managing and securing your software supply chain is crucial for ensuring quality and security in your dev process. It's not a quick fix but, rather, a multi-pronged approach over time.
If your dev process uses software suppliers or vendors, hopefully you assessed their security and compliance practices as part of your evaluation. It's easy to get caught up in features and requirements and to forget to look into their security practices.
Next, it's your turn: Establish a clear and secure software development processes that include
guidelines for selecting suppliers
verifying the security and quality of the software
maintaining compliance with industry standards
implementing strong security controls such as access control, monitoring and logging, encryption, and intrusion detection. (Each of these aspects may require investment in a tool or a suite of tools).
You're going to want to implement vulnerability assessments and regular penetration testing as well to identify and address potential security weaknesses. How regular "regular" is will depend on many factors including (but not only) your delivery timelines, how often and how much your code changes, and what's going on in the threat landscape in general.
Finally, when it's time to distribute your software, it needs to be done securely. Packages for doing so can monitor the distribution process to detect signs of tampering or unauthorized modifications.
And once you've got all this deployed, you need ongoing oversight to monitor and assess all these pieces of the puzzle.
Application security is a significant challenge for software engineers, as well as for security and DevOps professionals. It comprises the measures taken to improve the security of online services and websites against malicious attacks by finding, repairing, and preventing security weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Managing and securing your software supply chain is crucial for ensuring quality and security in your dev process. It's not a quick fix but, rather, a multi-pronged approach over time.
If your dev process uses software suppliers or vendors, hopefully you assessed their security and compliance practices as part of your evaluation. It's easy to get caught up in features and requirements and to forget to look into their security practices.
Next, it's your turn: Establish a clear and secure software development processes that include
You're going to want to implement vulnerability assessments and regular penetration testing as well to identify and address potential security weaknesses. How regular "regular" is will depend on many factors including (but not only) your delivery timelines, how often and how much your code changes, and what's going on in the threat landscape in general.
Finally, when it's time to distribute your software, it needs to be done securely. Packages for doing so can monitor the distribution process to detect signs of tampering or unauthorized modifications.
And once you've got all this deployed, you need ongoing oversight to monitor and assess all these pieces of the puzzle.