The F-Secure Safe user interface has undergone a major makeover. The stylized hilly landscape with trees and clouds has been replaced by an uncluttered, three-panel design with security status indicators (red when there’s something wrong and green when everything is in order).
Software is a powerful and versatile tool. The way we use it changes the world. It’s not immune to threats from malicious actors that try to exploit vulnerabilities in order to get data and cause havoc.
To prevent these threats to avoid these threats, it is crucial to incorporate security improvements into the software development and test processes. This means including security best practices into testing, creating an environment that is secure throughout the development cycle, and preventing flaws through patches and updates to the application.
For it to be successful, this approach must be inclusive of all stakeholders in the process. It requires a structured methodology as well as an organization-wide culture of safety and tools that help secure the process. This involves establishing and maintaining a trusted component list, applying threat modeling to assess the level of risk, communicating standards to third parties while checking compliance, employing secure coding practices and using top tools in the industry, and performing automated or manual vulnerability tests and reviews.
A robust, scalable process for security is critical to building reliable and trustworthy software. This is particularly true for high-profile systems, like those in financial services, healthcare automotive, and homeland security. These systems require more rigorous requirements for coding, such as those in the MISRA C and MISRA C++ codes to guard against vulnerabilities that could compromise safety.