Application Security Software Development Life Cycle Support
Aspect can work with your development teams, architechs, or development process groups to integrate application security activities into your development life cycle. The typical activities include many of the development and architecture security services that Aspect provides to its clients, including threat modeling, defining and developing standard security controls, design and architecture reviews, peer reviews, code review and application penetration testing. Aspect can also help you identify and integrate various technologies that facilitate the process, provide standard security controls, facilitate team education and communication, help you detect or avoid vulnerabilities, track your application security program's progress, and provide metrics.
Aspect will not only help you define and tailor the appropriate application security activities into your development life cycle, but will also teach your team members how to perform these activities on their own. Application security is a critical skill for any development organization and as such, needs to make it one of their core competencies. We have trained numerous organizations 'how to fish' so they can perform these activities themselves going forward.
Aspect has worked with clients following many different development paradigms, including waterfall, spiral, and as Agile development. We can tailor the appropriate security activities into your process based on your development paradigm, corporate culture, and tolerance for risk. There is no "one size fits all" application security process that every organization should follow. Significant tailoring and adjustment is required to define application security activities that will be effective in your organization.
A key aspect of Aspect's security life cycle programs is building in root cause analysis detection and process improvement. This allows the organization to determine where most of the problems are being introduced and why. Then the process can self adjust to focus on improving those areas that are causing the most problems, thus making the process more efficient and cost effective.