SUMMARY

As you've been able to gather by now, software programming mistakes are public enemy number one when it comes to digital security, and such mistakes are also easy to make. With a slight miscalculation or drowsy moment, the programmer can introduce a serious security flaw into an application, and thus cause tremendous damage to companies and end users. Because we aren't about to collectively change human behavior anytime soon, the next best thing we can do to counter this problem is implement an accountable, auditable process of securing code before it goes into production. We hope the principles of the Security Development Lifecycle process we've described here assist you in achieving greater security for the software you write.