Application Security
Application security (AppSec) is the practice of ensuring that applications are designed, developed, and deployed in a secure manner. AppSec encompasses the entire application lifecycle, from requirements analysis to maintenance.
Objectives
The objective of AppSec is to protect applications from attack and to mitigate the risk of data breaches and other security incidents. By following best practices in application security, organizations can help to protect their data, their reputation, and their bottom line.
The importance of AppSec cannot be underestimated:
- Software vulnerabilities are common. Even non-critical vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers, so it is important to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in your applications.
- Finding and fixing vulnerabilities reduces security risks. By proactively identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, you can reduce your organization’s overall attack surface.
- A proactive approach to application security is better than a reactive approach. By being proactive, you can identify and neutralize attacks earlier, sometimes before any damage is done.
- As more and more data moves to the cloud, the attack surface for applications increases. Application security measures can help reduce the impact of these attacks.
- Neglecting application security can expose your organization to potentially existential threats. By failing to secure your applications, you could put your organization’s data, reputation, and even its existence at risk.
The main objective of the Application Security Focus Group is to share information on the security challenges of applications and application developments. Its members aim to learn from each other by sharing implementation experiences and best practices.
Topics
Members exchange experiences on the implementation of an AppSec Programme, whereby various aspects
are discussed:
- securing the buy-in of senior management
- aligning business, IT & security
- creating a security mindset among software developers
- retaining application security knowledge
- measuring the success of programme implementation
- and tooling.
Practices
