Secure and Safe Software
Security and safety mean protecting against threats from malicious actors who seek to steal sensitive information or disrupt operations with cyberattacks, and securing information or solutions from accidental loss or misuse. This also applies to physical safety protocols such as strong passwords multi-factor authentication, as well as encryption.
The design phase is the most important to creating a safe and secure product. In a perfect world, the company would incorporate security into the SDLC rather than treating it as an issue to be addressed at the last minute. It should be incorporated into the planning phase long before the first code line is written.
It is essential to clearly define and set security standards, educating developers to develop in alignment with those requirements, using the most advanced tools to identify vulnerabilities during testing, utilizing secure code practices and communicating security standards to third parties while verifying compliance, creating procedures for managing dependencies from open source and ensuring that all releases are protected against unauthorized access once released. It is also crucial to ensure that the product is protected after release with transparent vulnerability reporting and phishing-resistant types of authentication.
Finally, businesses should use automated SAST to examine their code for MISRA violations instead of performing the checks manually line-by-line. Klocwork is a tool that can help you save time and provide an efficient and consistent method of evaluating MISRA compliance. Sign up for a Klocwork free trial to learn more about this method of stopping MISRA violations within your software. This will help safeguard your products, brand and customers from actual cyber-attacks.