Your development process might be Agile, but what about your application security? How do you ensure that your organization can respond to changing business requirements and regulatory controls? How quickly can you adapt to evolving threats?

Until recently, bringing innovations to market was the domain of the business leader and information security was solely the responsibility of the IT department. With software attacks on the rise, now product owners and business line managers must become proactive participants in developing and implementing security strategies to ensure the trust of their customers.

Without strong alignment across everyone involved in software development, security can be relegated to an afterthought or implemented inconsistently, leaving sensitive data and proprietary assets vulnerable to hackers.

Building security into your IT and business requirements will mitigate risk of a breach, make your product development process more efficient and create a competitive advantage for your company.

Lower costs, higher productivity

The total cost of creating software includes a range of activities: design, production, testing, fixing defects, launch and ongoing maintenance.

When security scans are “bolted on” just prior to launch, vulnerabilities are more expensive to fix and productivity is lost. Code has to be recreated. New designs have to be architected. Production dates are missed. Worse, if must-fix security flaws are discovered after launch, remediation costs increase dramatically and customers lose confidence in your brand.

When you build security in–that is, make it an integral part of your SDLC design phase–you can reduce the cost of finding and fixing errors by orders of magnitude.