Give developers secure-coding ammo Written by Howard A. Schmidt, Contributor Nov. 6, 2005 at 5:37 p.m. PT perspective Like it or not, the hard work of developers often takes the brunt of malicious ...

The past decade has seen a growing recognition of the importance of secure coding practices, and governments and corporate entities around the world have taken steps to promote and incentivise ...

The global survey of professional developers and their managers found seven in 10 organisations (70%) recognise the importance of secure coding practices, with results indicating an industry-wide ...

A new secure coding practices study, released by EMA, reveals implementation of ‘shift-left’ is slow, with only 25% of organizations adopting a ‘shift-left’ strategy for security The ...

Common Weakness Enumeration CWE-22, commonly referred to as "path traversal", is a vulnerability in which an application does not appropriately restrict the paths that users can access via user ...

This is a contributing factor to another major finding – that only 29% of developers believe the active practice of writing code free of vulnerabilities should be prioritized.

Best Practices For Building A Secure Web Application. 1. Secure Coding Standards. One of the foundational steps in building a secure web application is adopting secure coding practices.

This article looks at vulnerabilities in JavaScript and possible best practices for secure JavaScript coding. JavaScript security issues can be divided into three broad categories: 1) DOM-based ...

Additionally, organizations need to implement a Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) approach, integrating security at every stage of software development, from planning and design to coding, testing, ...

But a group of researchers in Belgium has developed a new security coach called Sensei that runs right in the IDE, much like a spell-checker. It has also developed a complementary set of coding games ...