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The very people who are developing and testing the software are often not at the table when security features, threat modeling, and compliance requirements are being discussed.

Development and quality assurance (QA) are often standalone functions that are not well integrated with information security initiatives or business goals.

Here are the top ones that I come across: Based on what I see in my work, there are additional things people do – or don’t do – that lead to application security challenges and ultimately failures. This is the core impediment to application security but there’s more to the story. However, in reality, talk is cheap, and security is often not integrated into the lifecycle as it should be.

We hear all the time how important it is to integrate security into the software development lifecycle. You must look deeper into your application security efforts and find out what’s actually working and what’s not. Half-hearted “ best practices” have been shown not to work. But it’s not enough to simply go through the motions with what you’ve been doing with policy enforcement, requirements development, and the like. If application security is an important part of your overall security program and your business (it should be!) then you must take the proper steps to keep things in check.

And the only things that you can have control over are the things that you proactively measure and manage. In business, you’re only as good as the things that you have control over.