Software Security Standards: Ensuring Project Security from Start to Finish

Project managers need to be responsible for software security standards – whether they’re externally or internally imposed. Introducing best practices at the beginning of the project life cycle, rather than the end, works best.

Producing secure software applications is a serious challenge for all software developers. In order to create a framework for software security, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) flagged security as a software development life cycle requirement when it approved the IEEE P1074 Standard for Developing Project Life Cycle Processes. This revised standard proposed that project managers should be responsible for security throughout the life cycle of the software rather than making only the end development group responsible for the project's security. This was a radical change from the way software companies typically handled software security.

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