Optiv’s team of application security experts can help your organization programmatically reduce the risks around your development environment and enterprise applications.
From secure SDLC design and threat modeling to penetration testing, security training, and program management, Optiv can help accelerate the maturity of your application security program.
Educate development teams on common threats and attack techniques to create a sense of awareness and foster a culture of shared security. Leverage a Security Champions program to help scale security and promote security as a routine part of the development process.
Developer Awareness and Training
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Develop a centralized knowledge management system to enable developers to share and reference software architectural standards, secure coding patterns and approved remediations. Provide search capabilities for mining historical application findings and bug fixes.
Knowledge Management
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Vulnerability Management
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Implement a scalable system that integrates software defect tracking and prioritized remediation to address vulnerabilities more quickly and effectively. Focus first on the fixes that matter the most.
Defect Tracking and Remediation
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Static and dynamic security scanning tools should be carefully chosen, sensibly configured and properly integrated into the SDLC. Incorporate automation and orchestration to shift security left. Use tools with AI capabilities to help reduce false positives and optimize results. Leverage security experts for manual testing and review when more comprehensive coverage is needed.
Assessment Toolchain and Testing
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Increased regulatory and compliance standards are pressuring organizations to be more accountable than ever in the way they build and release applications. Manage open-source and third-party libraries for trustworthiness, security and license compliance. Harden continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to provide reliable delivery
of resilient software.
Software Supply Chain Security
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Take a secure design approach to application development. Enable teams to establish secure baselines and standards according to their development platforms, frameworks, workflows, data paths, cloud architectures and threat models.
Application Architecture
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Create an application inventory based on criteria from the enterprise's current risk assessment framework. Rank applications and APIs by risk attributes and connect them to your security testing and remediation strategies.
Application Catalog
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Establish policies, procedures, guidelines and standards to prescribe secure development practices, then leverage technology and operational processes to implement them. Align these controls with regulatory requirements, enable clear ownership of security responsibilities and set expectations for minimizing risk.
Governance
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Leverage a proven software assurance framework, such as OWASP SAMM, to assist in the creation, implementation and measurement of security program activities. These models can help improve and mature the program over time.
Framework
and Models
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12 Tips to Implementing an Effective AppSec Program
Most organizations have some form of AppSec program, but feel it’s not as effective as it needs
to be. Creating a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) program can be a daunting task, especially as organizations migrate to market-driven IT approaches like DevOps and cloud-based services.
The challenge most organizations face is the ability to enable product teams to deliver new services quickly while effectively embedding
the appropriate security checkpoints throughout the development lifecycle. Here are some useful insight we’ve gleaned through hundreds of AppSec client engagements over the years.
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Measuring and Reporting
Develop a strategy for measuring the effectiveness of the AppSec program over time. Implement a solution to ingest data from appropriate sources and report on relevant risk metrics that matter to the business.
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Application Protection
Deploy a solution for protecting APIs
and applications (including cloud-native) at runtime to monitor and defend against threat actors. Implement Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) products for continuous protection against threats such as automated bots and Denial of Service attacks.
Invest in a unified vulnerability management program to centralize visibility and accountability of risks associated with application vulnerabilities across the enterprise. Consider that attackers target all layers of modern applications – code, components, containers, cloud and servers.
Optiv is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can. At Optiv, we manage cyber risk so you can secure your full potential. For more information, visit www.optiv.com.
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