The need for application security accountability is growing. No longer willing to race hackers to discovered vulnerabilities, organizations must now take a more proactive approach to the way they design, develop and operate the software on which their business relies. To enforce this, regulations have been developed in every industry to try to hold organizations accountable for insecure software and its resultant risk to customer data. Compliance frameworks providing guidance on how to implement these regulations, offer the necessary steps for ongoing, measurable software security assurance programs.
Businesses, armed with automated application security tools such as those from Ounce Labs, can now have the metrics and policy compliance information they need to report to key executives, auditors and regulators on the process and state of their software security assurance efforts. This guide provides key personnel charged with fulfilling these various requirements with a quick reference to understanding:
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The major compliance categories into which software security assurance activities fall, including Risk Assessment, setting standards for Development and Deployment, and Vulnerability Identification and Remediation.
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The applicable regulatory and compliance frameworks and the specifi c control activities within each that apply to software security assurance activities.
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The Ounce Labs solution and the way in which its capabilities can provide the necessary metrics and policy complianceinformation to help prove compliance with these activities.
