Product security & SSDLC
Cybersecurity skills are scarce and hard to attain. In building your software, product security is essential to mitigate business and compliance risks. Security bugs caught early on in the Secure Software Development Lifecycle are easy and cheap to fix.
Slowly SSDLC becomes the new norm for products with elevated security requirements. But it's hard to build security measures that don’t contradict product values, don’t hinder business progress and protect from pragmatic risks. We excel in this art.
Security challenges in
product development
Product security != application security
Software products do not exist in a vacuum. It's essential to choose complementary infrastructure security controls, carefully assess everything against the risk model and prioritize expenditure of finite resources.
Product-oriented security
Product is a reflection of a business model, which in turn is a reflection of the value that the product delivers. It's important to ensure that security doesn't contradict values delivered to the customer.
No silver bullet
There is no single product or framework to solve all of your security needs; neither is there a standard approach which satisfies all security requirements.
Compliance requirements
More and more customers face compliance and regulatory requirements that directly impact product decisions, especially true for multi-regional software.
How SSDLC solves these challenges
Risk-driven security
Value for the money comes from a careful understanding of what security features are relevant risk-wise. Some are more crucial for your product's risks, while others can be postponed.
Breaking is easy. Building is hard.
Running SSDLC requires working with a qualified security engineering team together in planning, implementation and verification of security measures in your product.
Preventing cyber attacks
When real & pragmatic risks drive SSDLC, security threats are eliminated early on, making your development team confident in the product.
Our approach to product security
Shared understanding of product value and business risks
Our risk assessment process is oriented at product teams. We assess your software's maturity posture and advise how to push forward while preserving your product values and development team capabilities.
Deep collaboration with dev team
During the first 3-6 months of our collaboration, we're close to your team to ensure that the SSDLC process fits the team and product's risk model. We gently drive developers, tutor and mentor them.
Gradual training and hiring
Some teams prefer to contain most security knowledge inside. We help them to gradually take over parts of SSDLC while assisting your company hire more people who will replace us.
Business impact
Tailored security
Security measures will be finely tailored to your product and not frustrating to your users. We bring pragmatic security, instead of pushing hyped tools “just because”.
Cost efficient security measures
Sustainable security is risk-optimal and budget-aligned. We advise on carefully growing security capabilities instead of plugging a hole with money.
Unhindered product process
We understand how to minimise roadmap surprises, imminent operational failures and avoid development slowdown. Security engineers are partners with software developers and SREs.
Improved team coordination
Most of our customers notice that their development teams become more organised and efficient in their work after product security cooperation.
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