Key Points in Product Security

 Key Things to Consider for Product Security

The primary aim of this blog is to share my ideas on Product Security. Key trends and how to secure a software product. In this blog, we are going to talk about "Pushing Security to the Left" in SDLC


Push Security to the left of SDLC

  1. SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle
  2. SDLC consists of Design - Development - Testing - Production
  3. Product Owners think about Security only in Testing or Production environment
  4. Product Owners should start thinking about Security while designing the application
  5. Majority of the Security risks if we think about security while designing the application

 

Important Security decisions to consider while Designing your product?

  1.  Assign or get only the required permissions in your Product 
  2. Store only the data which are absolutely required
  3. If you store any PII data, kindly encrypt the data 
  4. Try to whitelist all the input that you are obtaining from the user
  5. If your application receives any data other than what is whitelisted, then don't process the request

 

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