
Software Engineering Security Culture
We need to fix the culture, from top to bottom in the software engineering industry. Here are just some of the issues as I see them and what we should be doing about them.
We need to fix the culture, from top to bottom in the software engineering industry. Here are just some of the issues as I see them and what we should be doing about them.
Coming soon to a bookshelf near you, Threat Modeling Gameplay with EoP: A reference manual for spotting threats in software architecture
Threat modeling with teams is a process that requires visuals, interaction between team members and discussion and so lends itself to everyone being in a room together. This has been quite hard the last two years. It also doesn’t look to be getting any easier, so we should probably get used to it. Here’s how I’ve been doing it with several teams.
So often organizations believe that Application Security stops at penetration testing and fixing vulnerabilities but it is more than that, penetration testing is the reactive side of things but you also need the proactive aspects of Application Security to reduce the flow.
I’ve just launched the first OWASP Application Security Awareness Campaign with 11 Posters of the OWASP Top Ten 2021 project.
In this article I’m going to talk about why we shouldn’t take security for granted, what practices should be part of our process and how the industry may move to enforce this.